We just found out about a great opportunity through the National Health Service Corps and State Loan Repayment program. They are giving grants of up to $50,000 for student loans to people in certain health jobs who agree to work for two years in areas that have a shortage of health workers.

If you’ve completed or are completing your training for one of these positions, you may qualify:
• Nurse Practitioners
• Physician Assistants
• Certified Nurse Mid-Wives
• Dentists
• Dental Hygienists
• Licensed Mental or Behavioral Health Professionals: Clinical or Counseling Psychologists, Clinical Social Workers, Professional Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, or Psychiatric Nurse Specialists
• Allopathic or Osteopathic Physicians specializing in Family Medicine, General Pediatrics, General Internal Medicine, General Psychiatry or Obstetrics and Gynecology

For more information you can call (916) 326-3745 or visit: http://www.oshpd.ca.gov/HWDD/SLRP.html. Here is the application: http://www.oshpd.ca.gov/HWDD/pdfs/slrp_app_instr.pdf.

The deadline to apply is October 1 – less than a month away. Good luck!