Southside Health Education Foundation (SHEF) was founded with the mission of supporting education and a commitment to growing the number of healthcare professionals who live and work in the Tri-Cities and surrounding areas.

A culture of health begins with the people. It takes commitment to ensure the community benefits from top-notch healthcare, cutting-edge research and caring, qualified health professionals. SHEF believes this vision can easily become a reality, if we support talented students who live and work here. Achieving a culture of health in Southside Virginia begins with financial support. By providing scholarships to deserving students from our region who are studying to enter a healthcare field or current health professionals who would like to continue to advance in their career, we can help make their career dreams come true.

One-by-one, student-by-student, SHEF scholarship recipients find economic and career success. Over the years, SHEF has awarded numerous scholarships to students whose passion was to take care of and nurture the sick and injured. SHEF’s need-based scholarships assist deserving students who are studying to enter healthcare fields and graduate into the workforce.

Just as SHEF has helped other students achieve academic success, we can help you as well. When residents from our region find rewarding, sustainable, and lucrative jobs, they stay here, raise their families here and build their lives.