Scottsdale Humanitarian Scholarship

Scottsdale Recovery Center is providing college students the opportunity to reach their educational goals in the fields of behavioral health or social services through its humanitarian scholarship, awarded once per quarter.
The Scottsdale Recovery Center Humanitarian Scholarship Program will provide $1500 to a student for use in undergraduate or graduate education programs.

How can you be considered as a possible candidate?
Students applying for this scholarship must be enrolling in a university of higher learning next year or currently enrolled at a collegiate institution in a program that culminates with a bachelor or graduate degree. All scholarship applicants must be age 18 or over and currently enrolled as a high school senior through college graduate level student.

Humanitarian Scholarship Essay Requirements
We are looking for scholars who want to use their education as a means to make a difference in the lives of others. All scholarship applicants must compose a 500-word essay, double-spaced, revealing how these funds will help in your personal quest for higher learning. Please cite personal experiences that illustrate examples of humanitarian or philanthropic efforts in social settings for community service or health care. Include ideologies or people who have influenced your decision to pursue education and vocational aspirations in the health or human services field. Send any inquiries and your essay to our email dedicated to this scholarship program.

Deadline to Apply for Fall 2019 Humanitarian Scholarship Is September 15, 2019

Essay Focus
Some of the benefits of higher learning include philosophical exploration of the mind and spirit, allowing students the time needed to identify opportunities to formulate better ideas that serve others. Amidst today’s governmental changes in health care practices, mental and physical medical treatment and services are not readily available to all as limited financial resources and insurance providers continue to slip away. These are some of the challenges that college graduates will face when entering the health care job market.

The Scottsdale Recovery Center Humanitarian Scholarship Program is seeking creative, solutions-based initiatives from college students that can help forge a positive path in bettering community, one life at a time. Social responsibility is more than a choice – to effectively conquer our health and wellness issues, it must be a way of life. Social responsibility is the crux of Scottsdale Recovery Center in mission and our vision for the future. Recipients of our humanitarian scholarship award will represent the future of health care.

We’re looking for college students who can carry social responsibility to the next level. Your essay must reveal how your experiences, insights and passion for social responsibility in health care will provide benefits to your University of choice, the people you touch and the communities you will serve.