Success Stories by State: Virginia

• Clinch Valley Community Action Camp Joy Program
  September 2009
  Camp Joy provides access to recreation, sport and educational activities to low-income children in a rural area that has few organized summer activities.
• Valley Health Exchange Network
  July 2009
  The main goal of this project was to help create a community-based health care system that was better equipped to meet the health care needs of a more racially, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse population in rural Virginia.
• Community Health Education and Development Program
  May 2009
  The Community Health Education and Development (CHED) program was established to increase health care access in the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula of Virginia.
• Dickenson County Virginia Child Care Center
  June 2007
  Several organizations in Dickenson County Virgina worked together to build a state-of-the-art child care facility to serve workers at technology-based customer-service call centers.
• People Incorporated of Southwest Virginia Project
  January 2007
  The goals of the project are to improve the overall health of low-income families in the four rural counties, increase physician knowledge of community-based resources to support low-income patients' self-efficacy, and provide community-based experience to medical residents.
• Rural Health Outreach Consortium
  January 2007
  The Rural Health Outreach Consortium, a consortium of health and human service agencies in Bath County, Virginia, has formed to sponsor a community wellness program for county residents.
• Nelson County Rural Health Outreach
  July 2005
  This Rural Health Outreach Program launched a school nursing program that placed registered nurses in each of the six Nelson County public schools as well as creating a supplementary health education program provided by a registered nurse who traveled to each site.