Skip to main content

Natural Awakenings Central New Jersey

Palo-Santo-Candles

Natural Awakenings Magazine Proudly Announces Scholarship for Continued Education

Natural Awakenings is grateful to their dedicated readers, who have connected in community over the past 27 years in alignment with their mission to promote healthy living and a healthy planet. They recognize that followers of the magazine are striving every day in many ways to create a healthier world for themselves, their families and their communities. To honor and recognize the efforts of individuals, who are wanting to learn more and create a better life and world, Natural Awakenings is proud to offer the Natural Awakenings #NextChapter Scholarship. 

The Natural Awakenings #NextChapter Scholarship is open to individuals age 25 and older with no maximum age, who are enrolled or planning to enroll into a continued education program that promotes healthy living or a healthy planet. The education program may be a college, university, certification or other training program. This award of $500 is intended to help applicants with their education, materials or travel costs of their continued education program. 

The intention of the Natural Awakenings #NextChapter Scholarship is to provide a recipient with some financial support as they strive to design or redesign their next professional chapter. The applicant must have a demonstrated desire to utilize their educational pursuit to advance their current or future professional path. The scholarship award must be used for tuition, books, supplies, travel or other related fees.

The application deadline is May 31st, 2021. Finalists will be announced by June 11th, 2021. Finalists will be required to submit a photo that they approve for use by Natural Awakenings Magazine. Finalists must also approve publication of their application essay. Photo and essay will be shared on Natural Awakenings social media pages. 

Application for the Natural Awakenings #NextChapter Scholarship: https://forms.gle/V57B5rs9BuKvxkRK7.

For more information about the Natural Awakenings #NextChapter Scholarship please email the Director of Community Connection, Jean O’Toole at [email protected]. 

 

In-Print March 2021 Scholarship
Tick Talk

Spring officially sprung on March 21. We have turned our clocks ahead. We are looking forward to warm winds, sunny skies and the smell of fresh cut grass. The daffodils and tulips have recently bloomed and we are just starting with the yard work that comes with the warmer weather.  Sadly, another season has started ramping up.  Tick season.

•             The best form of protection is prevention. Educating oneself about tick activity and how our behaviors overlap with tick habitats is the first step.

•             According to the NJ DOH, in 2022 Hunterdon County led the state with a Lyme disease incidence rate of 426 cases per 100,000 people. The fact is ticks spend approximately 90% of their lives not on a host but aggressively searching for one, molting to their next stage or over-wintering. This is why a tick remediation program should be implemented on school grounds where NJ DOH deems high risk for tick exposure and subsequent attachment to human hosts.

•             Governor Murphy has signed a bill that mandates tick education in NJ public schools. See this for the details.  Tick education must now be incorporated into K-12 school curriculum. See link:

https://www.nj.gov/education/broadcasts/2023/sept/27/TicksandTick-BorneIllnessEducation.pdf

•             May is a great month to remind the public that tick activity is in full swing. In New Jersey, there are many tickborne diseases that affect residents, including Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, Powassan, and Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis.

•             For years, the focus has mainly been about protecting ourselves from Lyme disease. But other tick-borne diseases are on the rise in Central Jersey. An increase of incidence of Babesia and Anaplasma are sidelining people too. These two pathogens are scary because they effect our blood cells. Babesia affects the red blood cells and Anaplasma effects the white blood cells.

•             Ticks can be infected with more than one pathogen. When you contract Lyme it is possible to contract more than just that one disease. This is called a co-infection. It is super important to pay attention to your symptoms. See link.

https://twp.freehold.nj.us/480/Disease-Co-Infection

A good resource from the State:

https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/topics/tickborne.shtml

 

Upcoming Events Near You
Follow Us On Facebook