Scholarships
Training access should not stop at the ability to pay.
The Center for AAIT offers scholarship support to help reduce financial barriers to Acceptance and Integration Training® (AAIT™) for eligible practitioners.
The purpose is straightforward: when practitioners serving communities with limited resources have greater access to advanced learning, the reach of that learning does not end with one person.
Scholarship support is currently associated with AAIT™ Foundations and the AAIT™ Fellowship Training Group.
Current eligibility, funding amounts, applicant contribution requirements, deadlines, and application steps should be confirmed for each training cycle.
Practitioner Access
A scholarship connects learning to service.
Practitioners often seek additional training because of the people already in front of them. The ones they are serving.
They may be working in community mental health, nonprofit settings, low-fee practices, or other environments where resources are stretched and advanced professional development can be difficult to fund.
The Center's scholarship work is intended to reduce that barrier.
A scholarship supports more than the one practitioner. Its effects reach into the community throuhg the lives of those they serve.
The practitioner carries what they learn back into the relationships and communities they already serve - and so do their clients.
Eligibility
Who are scholarships intended to support?
The Center's scholarship work is designed around financial access and the broader goal of supporting practitioners whose work may already reach communities with limited resources.
Funding
What can a scholarship cover?
Scholarship support may provide partial financial assistance for AAIT™ Foundations and the AAIT™ Fellowship Training Group.
Funding amounts and applicant contribution vary by training.
The current application should state exactly what support is available and what the applicant is responsible for.
The principle stays the same even when the numbers change:
Scholarships are meant to ease financial barriers, so we make your share of the cost clear from the start.
Application
What will applicants be asked to share?
Applicants are asked to describe their professional role, the communities they serve, their interest in AAIT™, and how they hope to use the training.
Those questions help connect limited scholarship resources to the purpose of the program.
The application includes the attendance, participation and between-session commitments so they are clear before a practitioner accepts funding.
View current scholarship requirements →
Support Access
Donors can participate in the same pathway.
Scholarship applicants and scholarship supporters are standing on different sides of the same bridge.
One is asking for access to learning.
The other is helping make that access possible.
Donor support for practitioner access can help the Center reduce financial barriers to AAIT™ courses while keeping the connection between giving and mission visible.
A donor is not simply funding a seat in a course.
They are helping create an opportunity for a practitioner to continue learning in service of the people and communities already connected to their work.
Sponsor practitioner access →