Barbara B. Baer Scholarship
In 1996-97, the Institute received a bequest from the Barbara B. Baer Trust. Barbara Baer was a dedicated clinical social worker with a private practice in Encino and an early friend of the Institute. The Barbara B. Baer Scholarship Fund has been established to support one $1,500 scholarship each year. The scholarship is awarded as a tuition credit of $500 each trimester for three trimesters. Eligibility requirements and applications are available at the Institute office.
Verneice D. Thompson Prize Fund
The Verneice D. Thompson Prize Fund was established to honor our second Dean, Dr. Verneice D. Thompson. The Board and faculty have determined that the income from this fund shall be used to award one $500 cash prize each year to a student for a paper that includes exploration of a social problem or clinical phenomenon from a social perspective, including the application of social theory that may inform the exploration. Four-unit course papers, dissertation proposals, and dissertations are eligible for the prize. In the event of more than one entry for the prize in a given year, an ad hoc faculty committee appointed by the Dean will determine the winner. Students may apply for the prize by submitting their papers to the Dean with a letter of intent.
Arturo Ricardo de Cordova Sanville Scholarship Fund.
The purpose of this fund is to support the scholarly pursuits of students of Latina and Latino background who enter the Institute in either the two-year Psychotherapy Certificate Program or the full Doctoral Program. Initial funding was established by Dr. Jean Sanville to honor her late husband, Arturo Ricardo de Cordova Sanville, with an additional major contribution from Chet and Carla Villalba. The Institute invites all Latino and Latina MSWs, MFTs, or interns to apply. We also invite all interested donors to contribute to this important, growing fund to ensure its continuation into the future.
Elise Blumenfeld Memorial Fund
Elise Blumenfeld - or Lise as everyone called her - was a tireless advocate for and supporter of the Institute. This fund was established by her many friends to memorialize her years of devotion to the Sanville community. Lise had many passions and pet projects, among them maintaining high academic standards, writing, research, student recruitment, advancement, and well-being. In recent years, she began work on an oral history project, interviewing senior clinical social workers in California about the interface between the personal, the professional, and the political. Because of her commitment to "stories" and to the power of narrative, we especially wish to focus the Fund on narrative qualitative research, a foundation of our curriculum and dissertation process.
Bonne Bearson Memorial Fund
The Prize associated with this Fund will be awarded to a student during the first or second year of the PhD program. Bonne was a student in our doctoral program from 1993 to 2000 and remained active with the Sanville community until her illness. She was a superb therapist, consultant, and supervisor, devoted to our profession and particularly cared about the needs of those less fortunate. Bonne's family established this fund as a way to honor her love and connection to The Sanville Institute and to ensure that Bonne's name and legacy will continue to live on.
