Funding Opportunities

Violet and Cyril Franks Scholarship

The APF Violet and Cyril Franks Scholarship supports graduate-level scholarly projects that use a psychological perspective to help understand and reduce stigma associated with mental illness.

Deadline: May 15, 2024
Amount: $5,000
Sponsors: APF

The APF Violet and Cyril Franks Scholarship supports graduate-level scholarly projects that use a psychological perspective to help understand and reduce stigma associated with mental illness. The scholarship helps address research which shows that stigma is a significant barrier to treatment and recovery for many of the 50 million Americans living with mental illness.

The amount of the scholarship is $5,000. The Franks Scholarship is made possible by the generosity of Violet Franks, PhD, and Cyril Franks, PhD.

Eligibility

APF encourages applicants from diverse backgrounds with respect to age, race, color, religion, creed, nationality, ability, sexual orientation, gender, and geography.

Applicants must:

  • be graduate students in good standing at accredited universities.
  • have demonstrated commitment to stigma issues

Application Instructions

Application Materials:

  • project proposal
  • project timeline
  • detailed budget and justification
  • CV
  • letter of recommendation from faculty advisor (requested through application portal)

Evaluation Criteria
Applications will be evaluated on:

  • conformance with program goals
  • quality of proposed work
  • applicant’s demonstrated scholarship and competence

Please be advised that APF does not provide feedback to applicants on their proposals.

Please review our Program FAQs for important details on the application process.

Recent Recipient

Savannah Roberts

University of Pittsburgh

“Proud To Be Me: Examining the Impact of Stigma on LGBTQ+ Adolescents’ Attitudes Toward Eating Disorder Prevention”

Past Recipients

2023

Savannah Roberts, University of Pittsburgh
“Proud To Be Me: Examining the Impact of Stigma on LGBTQ+ Adolescents’ Attitudes Toward Eating Disorder Prevention”

 

2022

Eliza Godfrey, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Mixed methods investigation of a mental health literacy intervention with middle school educators on mental health knowledge, stigma, and self-efficacy”

2021

Gabriella T. Ponzini, West Virginia University

2020

Daniel Saravia, California State University, Northridge

2019

Jessy Guler, University of Kansas

2018

Patrick Heath, Iowa State University

2017

Kelly Whaling, University of California, Santa Barbara

2016

Megan Rogers, Florida State University

2015

Ian Stanley and Melanie Hom, Florida State University

2014

Ruth Firmin, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

2013

Matthew Lebowitz, Yale University

2012

Hannah Weisman, University of California, Santa Barbara

2011

Benjamin Dickstein, Boston University

2010

Luma Muhtadie, University of California, Berkeley

2009

Lindsey Monteith, University of Houston

2008

Yura Yasui, University of Wisconsin, Madison

2007

Anne Krendl, Dartmouth College