'Healthy Streets and Healthy People' event coming up
This is a family-friendly event that will include activities like field day games, home gardening, African drumming, great music from DJ B-E.Z., gentle walk/run for all ages, and prizes like a new bicycle! There will also be Narcan training for saving people from an overdose and you can hear local speakers from B.U.C.K. Squad, ReLeaf Cville & More! Come for fun and tons of free giveaways including fresh produce, medication lock-boxes, firearm safety locks and containers of herbs to grow at home.
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New Local Partnership Working to Address Health Care Inequity
A new program to improve health care access for people living in Central Virginia neighborhoods with high rates of chronic diseases and significantly shorter life expectancies is now welcoming referrals for its first participants.
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WellAWARE health initiative begins in Charlottesville
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Betsy Peyton is the director of WellAWARE, a new community health worker program. She says Charlottesville’s highest rates of heart disease and diabetes, as well as...
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Addressing Health Care Inequity
A new partnership has created the WellAWARE program to help address health care equity in parts of Charlottesville.
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