Y Street is the Virginia Foundation For Healthy Youth’s award-winning volunteer initiative for high school students. Since 2004, more than 9,000 Y-Sters have developed skills to engage their communities and drive positive change. Through our obesity, tobacco, and e-cigarette use prevention efforts, we’re working to make Virginia healthier for us all.
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Each year we partner with high school clubs across the state to promote healthier lifestyles. Any student at a participating school is welcome to join and can earn volunteer hours, leadership experience, rewards, and up to $2,000 for your high school club.
The Share The Air campaign is committed to creating 100% tobacco-free and vape-free outdoor public spaces so that Virginians have access to clean and healthy spaces to be active, relax, and enjoy the outdoors.
Rev Your Bev is a statewide campaign to improve the health of all Virginians by encouraging them to drink more water.
Hello! My name is Max and I am a sophomore at Charlottesville High School. This is my first year in Y Street. I feel it is important to talk about how tobacco products are the most littered item nationwide. Did you know that 40% of all littered items are tobacco products?[1] That is a statistic […]
Hi! My name is Savanna and I am a junior at Hopewell High School. This is my second year in Y Street and my first year on the Y Street Leadership Team (YSLT). Being a leader in school is a very crucial thing as it sets you up for success in high school and beyond. […]
Hi, my name is Ella and I am a sophomore at Charlottesville High School. This is my first year in Y Street! Share The Air is an extremely important campaign to me. There are so many facts about smoking that had not really come to my attention before joining Y Street. For example, did you […]
