Provides Comprehensive Fitness Programs Certified Personal Trainers, Wellness/Nutrition Education, Exercise Studio for Group Classes, Full Gymnasium, Full Basketball Courts, Indoor Walking/Running Track, Volleyball & Pickleball Courts, Racquetball Court, Handball Court, Child Watch & Playground, Indoor Heated Tennis Courts, Cross Training Area, Kids Tween Room with Wii, Cardio Equipment, Spin Bikes, and Complete Weight Selection.

A veggie prescription program designed to help people with diet-related illnesses such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity, heart problems and stroke. Local doctors identify patients that are willing to make lifestyle changes and prescribe them to our program. The patients attend nine weeks of nutrition and cooking classes at Lynchburg Grows, taught by a nutrition educator from Virginia Cooperative Extension. At the end of each class, participants take home a bag of fresh fruit and produce so that they can try the recipes they learn at home.

Enables people to improve their lives through an education process that uses scientific knowledge focused on issues and needs. Building on the strength of agriculture, natural resources, family and community heritage, enables people to shape their futures through research based educational programs. Provides research based information through a system of campus and locally based educators. Provides some direct services to individuals including agricultural programs. Can provide information and referral for money management, food safety training, parenting programs and nutrition.

Provides activities designed to prevent disease and promote the health of older persons. Services include health risk assessments; routine health screening; nutritional counseling and education; health promotion; physical fitness and group exercise; music and dance-movement therapy; home injury control; mental health screening; mental health education; information on Medicare coverage; medication management; information on diagnosis, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of age related diseases and chronic disabling conditions geriatric counseling and follow up health services counseling. Services are available to consumers unable to leave their homes.

The Healthy Start Loving Steps program provides case management services to reduce infant deaths. The Loving Steps provides nutrition counseling and case management services during pregnancy and after the baby is born. Also serve families that have an infant or toddler with nutrition related medical problems.

To enable people to improve their lives through an education process that uses scientific knowledge focused on issues and needs. Building on the strength of agriculture, natural resources, family and community heritage, they enable people to shape their futures through research based educational programs. Provides research based information through a system of campus and locally based educators. Program includes 4-H, Agriculture, Home Economics, Master Gardners, EFNEP

To enable people to improve their lives through an education process that uses scientific knowledge focused on issues and needs. Building on the strength of agriculture, natural resources, family and community heritage, they enable people to shape their futures through research based educational programs. Provides research based information through a system of campus and locally based educators.

To enable people to improve their lives through an education process that uses scientific knowledge focused on issues and needs. Building on the strength of agriculture, natural resources, family and community heritage, they enable people to shape their futures through research based educational programs. Provides research based information through a system of campus and locally based educators.

The Virginia Healthy Start Initiative, known as Loving Steps, is a community-based program designed to reduce infant mortality and low birth weight that provides client recruitment, case management, medical nutrition therapy, health education, perinatal depression screening and inter-conceptional care services to pregnant women, inter-conceptional women and children up to 2 years of age.

The Bland County office of Virginia Cooperative Extension is your local connection to Virginia's land-grant universities, Virginia Tech and Virginia State University. Through educational programs based on research and developed with input from local stakeholders, we help the people of Bland County improve their lives. We provide education through programs in Agriculture and Natural Resources, Family and Consumer Sciences, 4-H Youth Development, and Community Viability.

Provides environmental and health services for area residents. This includes well and septic permits, food safety inspections, family planning, STD treatments, immunizations, communicable disease investigations, HIV/AIDS testing, care and supportive services, and women, infants and children (WIC) nutrition services.

Loaves & Fishes' Registered Dietitian Nutritionist visits each car in the parking lot to learn whether there are any specific dietary needs in the household. Loaves & Fishes is able to provide food for specific dietary needs: gluten-free, dairy-free, vegetarian/vegan, low-fat, diabetic, low-acid.

Build partnerships and collaborations with local through Strategic Funding, the Community Health Needs Assessment process, and Community Partnership Committee. Provide Community Benefit Initiatives that connects community through screenings, speaking presentations, educational classes, clinical programs, support groups, and publications.

To enable people to improve their lives through an education process that uses scientific knowledge focused on issues and needs. Building on the strength of agriculture, natural resources, family and community heritage, they enable people to shape their futures through research based educational programs. Provides research based information through a system of campus and locally based educators.

Provides an Outpatient Nutrition Clinic that attempts to meet all the nutrition educational needs of clients. A registered dietitian is available 5 days a week from 8:00 AM-5:00 PM for private consultation visits. For more information regarding Diabetes Care, please call (540)213-2537 or (540)941-2537.

FNIC provides information about food and human nutrition.

Provides environmental and health services for area residents. This includes well and septic permits, food safety inspections, family planning, STD treatments, immunizations, communicable disease investigations, HIV/AIDS testing, care and supportive services, and women, infants and children (WIC) nutrition services.

To enable people to improve their lives through an education process that uses scientific knowledge focused on issues and needs. Building on the strength of agriculture, natural resources, family and community heritage, they enable people to shape their futures through research based educational programs. Provides research based information through a system of campus and locally based educators. Offers 4-H youth development programs.

Promotes good nutrition and physical activity among the youth of Virginia via community-based grants to establish Healthy Community Action Teams (HCATs), community coalitions that work to reduce and prevent obesity on the local level across Virginia. HCAT grants are available every two years and are issued via best-value RFP application process.

To enable people to improve their lives through an education process that uses scientific knowledge focused on issues and needs. Building on the strength of agriculture, natural resources, family and community heritage, they enable people to shape their futures through research based educational programs. Provides research based information through a system of campus and locally based educators.

To enable people to improve their lives through an education process that uses scientific knowledge focused on issues and needs. Building on the strength of agriculture, natural resources, family and community heritage, they enable people to shape their futures through research based educational programs. Provides research based information through a system of campus and locally based educators.

To enable people to improve their lives through an education process that uses scientific knowledge focused on issues and needs. Building on the strength of agriculture, natural resources, family and community heritage, they enable people to shape their futures through research based educational programs. Provides research based information through a system of campus and locally based educators. Also has Agriculture & National Resources (ANR), Family & Community Sciences (FCS), Community Initiatives (CI), Food, Nutrition & Health (FNH) programs.

To enable people to improve their lives through an education process that uses scientific knowledge focused on issues and needs. Building on the strength of agriculture, natural resources, family and community heritage, they enable people to shape their futures through research based educational programs. Provides research based information through a system of campus and locally based educators.

The Loving Steps Program in Norfolk, Virginia is part of the Virginia Healthy Start Initiative. The goal of the program is to help make sure every baby has a healthy start in life. The program has a nurse and community health workers who visit with enrolled women and their families during the prenatal, postpartum and early parenting phases of life. If you are a pregnant woman or a new mother in the Norfolk area, a Loving Steps team member can meet with you at least once a month until your baby turns two years old! She will work to get you the services you need, answer your questions, and teach you about taking care of yourself and your baby!

Provides environmental and health services for area residents. This includes well and septic permits, food safety inspections, family planning, STD treatments, immunizations, communicable disease investigations, HIV/AIDS testing, care and supportive services, and women, infants and children (WIC) nutrition services.