The Cherokee Nation’s behavioral health scholarship will be administered by the Cherokee Nation Foundation and funded by the tribe’s opioid industry settlements. The scholarship will be available to undergraduate students who are Cherokee Nation citizens and who are likely to provide professional services within Cherokee Nation following their graduation.
It will also be available to graduate or doctoral students who agree to a period of grant payback in service to Cherokee Nation equal to the number of scholarship years while in pursuit of a behavioral health graduate degree, the report said.
