Requires Separate Application

Application Deadlines:

• Early Application: December 1
• Priority Application: February 1
• Final: March 1

The Detroit Scholars Program prepares MSW students to work within organizations and communities that provide services to underserved racial and ethnic minority children, adolescents, transitional age youth, adults, and their families living with physical and behavioral health conditions. The SSW, in collaboration with the Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority, will provide a specialized inter-professional behavioral health education and training program.

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The MEM Centennial Endowed Scholarship Fund was created to provide support to MSW students who have demonstrated interest in providing direct services to children, youth and families with a focus on preservation of family stability, foster care and adoption of older children, sibling groups or otherwise hard-to-place children. Preference will be given to students who have a field placement at Spaulding for Children and/or those who have lived experience in the child welfare system.

• MEM Centennial Endowed Scholarship Application

Application Deadline, October 13, 2025 @ 12 Noon

The Milton Carthens Memorial Scholarship was created to honor the life of Milton "Milt" Carthens, as well as his love for social work and the University of Michigan. It is made possible by the NFL Player Care Foundation and his wife, Pamela Carthens, to provide support for MSW students.

• Milton Carthens Memorial Scholarship Application

Application Deadline, October 13, 2025 @ 12 Noon

The Jim Toy Scholarship is a need-based award to support MSW students who are inspired by the ideals and examples Jim Toy demonstrated during his lifetime as a fierce advocate for LGBTQ+ communities.

• Jim Toy Scholarship Application

Application Deadline, October 13, 2025 @ 12 Noon

Read More About Jim Toy

• Remembering LGBTQ+ pioneer, Spectrum Center co-founder Jim Toy The University Record
• Episode 49: Remembering Jim Toy, featuring Scott Dennis Michigan Today
• 'Gentlest But Most Unshakeable Campaigner' Jim Toy, Michigan LGBTQ+ Trailblazer and Icon, Dies at 91 Pride Source
• Guest Column

This scholarship was created to honor Katsuyoshi Nishimoto (MSW 1972) to provide support for MSW students. The Donors request that in awarding the scholarship, the School give preference to students who meet any of the following criteria:

1. First generation in their families to attend college or graduate school
2. Socioeconomically disadvantaged
3. Primary caregiver
4. have overcome substantial educational or economic obstacles
5. have attended an HBCU
6. have attended a Hispanic-serving institution (HSI)
7. have attended a Native American-Serving Non-tribal Institution (NASNTI)
8. are registered with the