Kimberly Rock. (Submitted photo/Kimberly Rock)

By Ian Gustafson

Working Mom

P.A. woman wins National Working Parent Scholarship

Mar 15, 2020 | 12:47 PM

Parenthood can be challenging at times, especially when you’re also in post secondary education.

A Prince Albert mother has won a National Working Parent Scholarship.

In February, job-applications.ca announced 34-year-old Kimberly Rock was this year’s winner of $1,000 to help parents who balance parenthood, education and working.

“I was very surprised, it’s a national competition, so I didn’t expect to win,” Rock told paNOW. “So, finding out I did was just very validating and very exciting.”

Rock has a four-year-old daughter and is in her final year of studies at Athabasca University. Her course is mainly online with some in-person components.

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To apply, Rock had to fill out an application and write an 800-word essay. Click here to see her essay.

“It’s always nice when you can win scholarship money because things are tight when you’re a student and things are tight when you’re a parent, so having any bit of extra income is always helpful,” she explained.

She doesn’t have any concrete plans for what she’ll use the money for said she’d use it when needed.

“School is expensive [and] I do have bills for that,” she said. “I’ll put some towards just regular life stuff and then some towards maybe a family holiday.”

She said it can be difficult to balance everything as her husband works out of the province at some points. Her parents chip in where they can.

According to a media release, job-applications.ca and job-applications.com have given out over $30,000 in Canada and 22 states in the U.S.

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Ian.gustafson@jpbg.ca

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