Cherokee Nation Behavioral Health Scholarship

Applicant must be an undergraduate student with at least 60 credit hours, graduate student pursuing a degree in behavioral health fields and/or a doctoral candidate enrolled in an accredited clinical psychology (Psy D or Ph. D) program, with a minimum 3.0 GPA. Undergraduate applicants must demonstrate a likelihood of providing professional services within the Cherokee Nation Reservation upon graduation. Graduate or Doctoral applicants must be agreeable to a period of grant payback in service to the Cherokee Nation for a period that is equal to the number of scholarship years provided while pursuing a behavioral health graduate degree. Such agreement shall be evidenced by a signed agreement for grant payback through service hours. This is a one-year scholarship reserved for Cherokee Nation citizens.