Healthy Communities Action Teams (HCATs)

The Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth (VFHY) will provide more than two million dollars in funding between 2020 and 2023 to 25 HCAT grants across Virginia.

This funding provides infrastructure support to build and sustain the capacity to implement promising practices and activities emphasizing policy, systems, and environmental change by improving access to healthy foods and opportunities for physical activity to prevent and reduce childhood obesity in Virginia. 

Be alerted when new childhood obesity prevention funding is available

Rev Your Bev

Rev Your Bev is the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth’s campaign to encourage Virginians to drink more water. Rev Your Bev promotes water as the #1 beverage of choice as a key strategy for childhood obesity prevention and brings educators, health advocates, and community leaders together to change the way Virginians think about beverages.

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Since 2016, Rev Your Bev Day began focusing its efforts on early childhood education centers and preschool providers to increase awareness of healthy beverage choices. In addition to generating awareness, Virginia early childhood education providers are encouraged to establish center-based healthy hydration policies that will sustain the programmatic goals of the Rev Your Bev campaign and thus result in creating life-long healthy habits for our youngest Virginians.

Learn how we are creating life-long healthy habits for the youngest Virginians

Learn how we are using straight forward and relevant facts with an empathetic tone to empower teens

Learn more about our comprehensive approach which combines programming, marketing, and research