“New England College (NEC) announced that it will receive a combined $550,000 grant from NH Healthy Families ($50,000) and Centene Foundation ($500,000), the philanthropic arm of Centene Corporation. This grant will fund a scholarship endowment for the College’s new cooperative Bachelor of Arts in Community Mental Health, a degree program that trains professionals to meet the growing mental health crisis throughout New Hampshire and New England. Recipients of the scholarship will be known as Centene Scholars.
‘This generous grant from NH Healthy Families and Centene Foundation enables NEC to extend valuable scholarships to students who want to make a difference in people’s lives,” stated Dr. Wayne F. Lesperance Jr, President of New England College. “Our Community Mental Health program is cooperative in nature, so it gives students the opportunity to work in mental health settings while earning their degree and to meet a very real workforce need in our State.”