Who qualifies for a Care Scholarship?
Utah children, adults, and families qualify for a Care Scholarship when the cost of behavioral-health, reunification, parenting, substance-use, or family-support services stands between them and care — because they are uninsured, underinsured, or facing real financial hardship. Case Pilot — not the care provider — makes every eligibility decision, using the written criteria below. The criteria are published in full and applied the same way to every application.
Household income relative to household size, measured against percent of the federal poverty level. Income is reported by attestation tier with one supporting document.
The applicant has no health insurance coverage for the requested service.
Insurance exists but does not meaningfully cover the requested service — high deductible, exhausted benefit, out-of-network only, or the service is excluded.
Circumstances beyond income level — job loss, medical debt, housing instability, single-income caregiving — that make paying for care unrealistic right now.
A court order, reunification deadline, or clinical urgency that makes timely care decisive for the family's outcome.
Whether Medicaid, CHIP, victim assistance, EAPs, sliding-scale programs, or other funding could reasonably cover the care instead. FAS is a payer of last resort.
The expected total cost and length of the requested care, and whether a scholarship of that size is a responsible use of the fund.
Whether the fund's current balance supports a new award of the anticipated size without jeopardizing families already in care.
Criteria version 1, effective 2026-07-04. Every application is scored against the version in force when it was reviewed, and decisions are recorded against that version.
What happens after you apply?
Every referral is acknowledged within 1 business day and decided within 10 business days. If the answer is not yet, it comes with the reason and the concrete steps that would help you qualify — a denial here is never a dead end.
Does Case Pilot provide therapy? No — Case Pilot coordinates and matches care; licensed providers deliver it. Case Pilot is not a clinic, and applying here never creates a treatment record. How the model works.