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Austen Riggs Center Commends Berkshire Community Scholarship Recipient
01:14PM / Wednesday, August 26, 2015
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STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — The Austen Riggs Center has announced that Christopher Broast is the 2015 recipient of the Austen Riggs Center Scholarship.  

Given annually since 1977, the scholarship is awarded to a graduating Berkshire Community College student who has demonstrated academic excellence in the behavioral sciences.

Broast is graduating with an associate degree in Human Services and will be attending the College of St. Rose in September. An army veteran who served in Iraq, Broast interned at Berkshire United Way and the Barrington Stage Company while a student at BCC.  

BCC staff member Jennifer Larkin said Broast has “been a very big positive presence on campus.” Active in student government and the Student Veterans Alliance, he has also been a member of Phi Theta Kappa Leadership. He is currently the Connections Veterans outreach coordinator for the Berkshire County chapter of National Alliance on Mental Illness  and is now working at the Berkshire United Way.

The faculty of Berkshire Community College’s Behavioral Sciences department select the annual recipient who is honored with a monetary reward of $500 and their name engraved on a plaque at the college.

Austen Riggs Center, a leading psychiatric hospital and residential treatment program, has been serving adults since 1919. For more information, visit www.austenriggs.org.

 

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