FSTM SCholarships
FSTM Access and Equity Scholarship
The Florida School of Traditional Midwifery seeks to reduce barriers to midwifery education for students who are currently underrepresented in midwifery education programs. This is an effort to promote equity, anti-oppression, and anti-racism at FSTM, within Florida midwifery, and beyond.
Recipients of the Equity and Access Scholarship receive funding that covers tuition and fees for each semester beginning in Year 2, Term 1 of the program. FSTM will provide this scholarship to one student per cohort per year and will commit to expanding the program as possible. Information regarding scholarship application is sent to student in year 1 term 3.
Students will be selected as recipients for the Access and Equity Scholarship based upon the following selection criteria in order of priority:
Student identifies as a BIPOC
Successful completion of Year 1
Demonstrates financial need
Priority is assigned to those without access to Pell or other Title IV funds or who will exhaust their Title IV funds within the year
Plan to practice as a Florida licensed midwife
Plans to accept Medicaid, or care for marginalized populations
Jennifer Wollheim Devine Scholarship
Jennifer Wollheim Devine was a Gainesville midwife, activist, daughter, wife, and mother who passed away in 2007 after only three short years in professional practice as a midwife. She was a dynamic, energetic, and nurturing woman who had a deep calling to become a midwife. She was a graduate of FSTM, and worked as a licensed midwife at the Birth Center of Gainesville as well as an instructor and Clinical Director at the school. Jennifer's mother, Marilyn Magnet, stated that Jennifer had a passion for FSTM in particular, selecting our program above others, and worked to improve FSTM whenever possible.
Tax deductible donations to this scholarship can be made through PayPal to info@midwiferyschool.org. Please note Jennifer Wollheim Scholarship when making this donation.
Please complete this form to request financial assistance from the Jennifer Wollheim Devine Scholarship fund. These funds are designed to support students who have a financial need. The scholarship covers unexpected, emergency or other expenses that, if unmet, would jeopardize the student’s academic career or family well-being.
Donna Susan Pugh Rarey Scholarship
Donna Susan Pugh Rarey, LM, RN was a wife, mother, and grandmother who passed away in 2023. Donna was inspired to become a midwife after her first granddaughter was born in 1998. In 2000, she assisted in the birth of her second granddaughter, and in 2002 she delivered her third granddaughter. She earned her midwifery license in 2002. She established her Heaven-Sent Midwifery practice, cofounded Midwives Cooperative, and helped at the Birth & Beyond Clinic in Florahome, Florida thereafter. In her twenty years as a midwife, Donna helped hundreds of mothers bring their children into the world. She desired passionately to provide home births. She was a woman nothing short of extraordinary. She radiated kindness, loved deeply, and gladly helped those in need.
The Donna Susan Pugh Rarey Scholarship fund aims to provide financial support to students who demonstrate distinction in the clinical setting through their dedication, diligence, and regard for the well-being of others, as Donna did during her practice as a midwife.
Tax deductible donations to this scholarship can also be made through PayPal to info@midwiferyschool.org. Please note Donna Rarey Scholarship when making this donation.
Scholarship award info coming soon.