The Family Empowerment Scholarship for Students with Unique Abilities (FES-UA) program is an annual scholarship that provides parents/guardians of children with specific disabilities the opportunity to better meet the individual needs of their eligible children.
2024-25 school year – Application
To determine if you are eligible to submit a 2024-2025 school year application please start here: https://webportalapp.com/webform/aaasf_2024eligibility
The current submission deadline is Monday, July 22, 2024 (subject to change).
Your 2024-2025 school year application must include one Household application and at least one Student application (including supporting documents) in order to activate the green “Submit Application” button.
You must click on the green “Submit Application” button in order to submit your application to us for processing. You will receive an email confirmation from us once your application has been submitted.
If you have questions about applying, please leave us a message at 888-707-2465 and we will call you back.
Already submitted your application? Click here to check the status.
¿Ya envió su solicitud para el año escolar 2024-25? Verifique el estado de su solicitud de beca basada en ingresos de 2024-2025 enviada*
*Cómo configurar la solicitud de beca en línea de AAA para que se muestre en español
Have you heard the news? AAA has an online Scholarship Management Platform (“SMP”) that makes it simple and convenient to manage your child’s scholarship with AAA. Scroll down for helpful information on how to use our SMP.
If your address or email has changed since you’ve applied with us, please let us know on the Contact Us page and let us know or leave us a message at 888-707-2465.
Scholarship Management Platform (“SMP”)
After your eligibility has been determined, we will email you an award letter and onboarding invitation to create an account on our new Scholarship Management Platform.
Here is a link to log back into our online SMP after accepting our onboarding email invitation.
SMP makes it SiMPle and convenient to manage your child’s scholarship with AAA. Below are helpful tutorials to get you started:
1. Understanding your SMP email invitation – Part 1
2. Understanding your SMP email invitation – Part 2
3. Final step of the SMP email invitation process – Verification Code
4. Review of the SMP dashboard and School Commitment Form process
5. Verification Reports – Step-by-Step Instructions for Parents
Need more help with the SMP email invitation? Check out our SMP FAQ page.
For families using your student’s FES-UA scholarship for private schools: If you are not able to find your child’s school on the SMP, please contact them to ask if they have responded to the AAA email invitation. The school must complete their onboarding process before parents can choose them on the SMP.
You will not lose your child’s scholarship for missing an SMP deadline, however, we do ask that you contact your child’s school to ask if they have completed the AAA onboarding process so that your child’s scholarship payments are not delayed.
Once the school has completed that process, they will be available for you to select. If they’re having trouble with that process, we ask that they please send an email with details of the problem to us at help@aaascholarships.org.
For families NOT using your student’s FES-UA scholarship for private schools, here is a helpful guide on how to submit a disbursement request.
General Information and Forms:
FES-UA 2024-2025 Scholarship Values
FES-UA 24-25 PURCHASING GUIDE FROM UCF
FES-UA Purchasing Guidelines for 2023-2024
FES-UA Scholarship Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
FES-UA Instructions for Submitting an SMP Disbursement Request
FES-UA 2023-24 Scholarship Handbook
FES-UA Hard Copy Scholarship Payment Forms
Email to submit hard copy payment forms and support: plsa@aaascholarships.org
FES-UA 2023-24 Private School Payment Schedule – See below
FES-UA Information about requesting an IEP for your child
FL DOE Private School Directory
Need help finding a school? GreatSchools.org and our new Private School Navigator may be able to help
FL DOE FAQs about homeschooling
Collection and Use of Social Security Numbers
FES-UA 2022-23 Scholarship Handbook
Email to submit 2022-23 Handbook Acknowledgments: AAAGardiner@aaascholarships.org