Lights in Scholarship Program

This opportunity is for anyone entering a medical or allied health field in the coming fall 2025 semester. A $1,000 Grant in Aid will be awarded to each recipient in June 2025. Only current residents of Clinton County are eligible to apply.

Application Process

A biography (Personal Profile) will be on a separate sheet. The essay should be 1 or 2 pages and double spaced describing your background, what made you choose the particular program of study and also how you could benefit our community if chosen to receive the grant in aid.

The applicant must have a copy of the acceptance letter into the medical program from the college they will be attending in order to apply. Also, it is required that all paperwork be original each year, not photocopies of information from previous years.

All letters of recommendations are to be written within 3 months of application for scholarship.

It will be called a Grant instead of a scholarship and will be given for the applicant to use to the best of their advantage.

An applicant can only receive an award once. Repeat applications from previous grant recipients will not be accepted.

Applicants should apply online at here. Applications are due May 1, 2025.

For more information or questions, contact Chris Gebke, HSHS St. Joseph's director of volunteer services, at 618-526-5351 or email Christine.Gebke@hshs.org.