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Benefits of the PHCP Education Scholarship

The PHCP education scholarship helps students who are interested in pursuing careers in the hoof care industry and in achieving their PHCP certification. These funds cover required clinics, webinars, and mentorship fees, as well as travel expenses. Applications for 2025 will open on January 1.

Donations Welcome

If you would like to be part of a student’s path to certification, consider donating to the scholarship fund. Donations are 501(c)(3) tax deductible.

Accomplishing Goals and Living the Dream

The following testimonials are from scholarship recipients enrolled in the PHCP certification program.

“I am grateful for PHCP for many reasons; the supportive community, amazing education, hoof nerd friends, the list goes on! That said, receiving the scholarship funds was the single biggest factor that allowed me to compete my certification to practitioner. With this extra funding I was able to travel to mentorships farther from home and spend more time with each teacher. These trips boosted my confidence in my work and nurtured my desire to become certified through PHCP. My goal since I joined PHCP has been to learn all can to help horses and people. The opportunities the scholarship provided through webinars, conferences and mentorships allowed me to accomplish that goal, achieve certification and be out here in the field living my dream!”

—Emma

Building Confidence

“The PHCP Education Scholarship was instrumental in helping me to stay on track. It is an amazing resource that helped me get to more mentorships and clinics than I would have otherwise been able to while at the same time allowing me to bank the majority of my earnings from trimming. I now feel comfortable and confident that I will be able to pay for further educational expenses on my own, without compromising my budget, but only because of the leg-up from the scholarship.”

—Molly

Applications Open January 1, 2025

Intermediate Student Practitioners and Advanced Student Practitioners are eligible to apply for the Education scholarship.

Our PHCP Starting Gate scholarship is awarded to one beginner in our training program each year. Students at the beginning level must complete at least one mentorship or beginning clinic to be eligible.  A written recommendation from a PHCP Mentor, Clinician or Practitioner must accompany the Starting Gate application.