Dear Pat: There will be scholarships available. The applications will be available sometime soon. Please send me your mailing address and phone number, etc so I can put you on the mailing list of people to receive further forum information. Note that you may need a scholarship. Another idea, if you belong to a support group you should talk to them about the possibility of sponsoring you (even partially) as a representative of that group. Then, it would be you job to share the information and advocacy training with them upon your return. Hope to see you there. Thanks for your interest. Sheila Heath PAN Administrator