Alabama Law Foundation Announces Kids’ Chance Scholarship Recipients
The Kids' Chance Scholarship Fund helps students whose parent or parents have been permanently disabled or killed on the job to attend college or technical school. A parent's death or disabling injury in an on-the-job accident usually lowers a family's standard of living to the extent that parents cannot help their children with the costs of higher education. Realizing that these students need help, the Workers' Compensation Section of the Alabama State Bar founded Kids" Chance in 1992.
Kids' Chance is administered by the Alabama Law Foundation. The awards for this school year totaled $34,000, with $456,000 being the amount the program has awarded to more than 169 students since 1993. Without Kids' Chance, these students might not have been able to afford a higher education. Kids' Chance graduates work across Alabama in a variety of professions such as teachers, nurses, therapists, and engineers. Therefore, Kids' Chance not only improves the lives of the individual students, but also improves their communities.
The Kids' Chance Scholarship recipients from around the state are as follows:
| William Bamberg, Jr., Selma | $2,500 |
| Justin Boyles, Russellville | $1,000 |
| Keslie Boyles, Russellville | $1,500 |
| Christoper Cupit, Demopolis | $1000 |
| Stephen Cupit, Demopolis | $2,500 |
| Hayley Fondren, Northport | $1,000 |
| Ashley Henry, Headland | $2000 |
| Casey King, Dothan | $2,500 |
| Kyle Moody, Florence | $2,000 |
| Kellie Oliver, Phil Campbell | $2,500 |
| Kellsie Oliver, Phil Campbell | $2,500 |
| Jarred Pate, Cordova | $1,000 |
| Brittany Patterson, Sweet Water | $2,000 |
| Ashley Penecost, Decatur | $2,000 |
| Haley Prestridge, Jasper | $2,000 |
| Hailey Taylor, Tibbie | $2,000 |
| Malaika Washington, York | $1,500 |
| Heather Williams, Pisgah | $2,500 |
