Hayley Petit Injury and Violence Prevention Fellowship

Application & Timeline

Application Deadlines

Summer Session: Monday June 3, 2024

Fall Semester: Monday October 7, 2024

Spring Semester: Monday February 3, 2025

About the Program

The Hayley Petit Injury and Violence Prevention Fellowship awards young women enrolled in a college or university with a $1,000 stipend from the Petit Family Foundation to study injury and violence prevention with Connecticut Children’s experts.

After running successfully for five summers, the program expanded in the fall of 2019 to offer fellowships to college students during the fall and spring semesters. The program provides Fellows with an opportunity to shadow staff members in different clinical areas throughout Connecticut Children’s. The Fellows also develop research proposals that fit within their own unique interests. The Injury Prevention Center’s focus areas include intimate partner violence, teen driving safety, youth suicide prevention, and elderly fall prevention.

Quotes from Fellows About Their Most Impactful Experiences of the Fellowship

Having the opportunity learn more about gun violence and gun safety

The knowledge and skills we have gained in this Fellowship will push us to continue to be curious, ask questions, and address gaps

Meeting the IPC and getting to have open conversations with them and other fellows

Reading the Rising and learning about the Petit Foundation and Dr. Petit’s resilience

How I can apply the injury and violence prevention into my life and those around me