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dapaanz Cutting Edge Awards Scholarships

Applications for scholarships are invited from people with lived experience of addiction and their family members, and those in designated consumer, family and peer roles, who wish to attend the 2025 Cutting Edge Conference in Rotorua.

This year we will award ten registration scholarships in total. If you are a successful scholarship recipient, you will receive a complimentary registration to the entire conference and a ticket for the Cutting Edge Awards conference dinner on Wednesday 12 November.

Closing date of scholarship applications
Friday 18 July 2025

Points criteria:

To qualify for a 2025 dapaanz scholarship applicants need to meet as many of the following criteria as they can (from a total of 25 points):

  • You are a person with a lived experience of addiction, including family members (5 points)

  • You are currently accessing addiction treatment services (5 points)

  • You are employed in either a designated addiction consumer or family role including advisory, peer support and advocacy (5 points)

  • Your primary role within the addiction treatment sector is voluntary (4 points)

  • You have been employed in the addiction sector for less than five years (3 points)

  • You agree to provide dapaanz a summary of how your attendance at Cutting Edge was beneficial to you and your networks within 28 days after the conference (3 points)

More information:

    • You will need to demonstrate how you meet the qualifying criteria so points can be allocated to your application to generate a rank score.

    • You must live and work in New Zealand.

    • You must not have previously received a dapaanz scholarship.

    • There will only be one scholarship recipient per organisation or group.

    • Once your application has been received no correspondence will be entered into.

  • A brief statement outlining why you would like to attend Cutting Edge 2025 and how it will benefit you and your networks.

    • This application form must be used.

    • Successful scholarship applicants will be notified from Friday 15 August.

    • Points will be allocated for each criterion met and ranked by total score.

    • Where there are more scholarships at or above the successful rank score for scholarship award then the lower scored applications will be reviewed by the organising committee and selection on additional merit from the summary will be made.

    • The scholarship selection panel will include representation from the Cutting Edge Organising Committee and dapaanz.

We look forward to receiving your application…