Name: Champions for Youth Summit
Start: 2024-09-30T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-10-02T23:59:59+00:00
Location: Hyatt Regency at Reston Town Center

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Champions for Youth Summit

September 30 - October 2

About the Champions for Youth Summit

Join the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth (VFHY) and Prevention Connections for an exciting opportunity to be part of the second Champions for Youth Summit! We will convene over 500 prevention professionals who are committed to exploring best practices to impact youth and young adults on topics such as tobacco and nicotine use, substance use, and factors that impact childhood obesity.

Learn evidence-based practices

Join hundreds of champions throughout government, nonprofits, public health, and more to explore and learn evidence-based practices that empower youth to make healthy choices.

Champions will experience topics like:

Tobacco Prevention & Cessation
E-Cigarette/Vaping Prevention
Nutrition Security
Social Determinants of Health
Healthy Community Design
Cannabis & Marijuana Prevention
Opioids & Prescription Drug Misuse
Overall Youth Wellness
And more!

Draft Agenda (Subject to Change)

Day 1

8:30 am – 9:30 am ET – Breakfast & Keynote
9:50 am – 12:10 pm ET – General & Breakout Sessions
12:20 pm – 1:30 pm ET – Lunch & Keynote
1:50 pm – 4:10 pm ET – General & Breakout Sessions

Day 2

8:30am – 9:30am ET – Breakfast & Keynote
9:50am – 12:10pm ET – General & Breakout Sessions
12:20pm – 1:50pm ET – Lunch & Keynote
2:00pm – 3:00pm ET – Keynote
4:00pm – 7:00pm ET – Networking Reception

Day 3

8:30am – 9:00am ET – Breakfast & Keynote
9:00am – 10:00am ET – Breakout Sessions
10:00am – 10:30am ET – Keynote

Registration Open

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Location

Hyatt Regency at Reston Town Center
1800 Presidents Street, Reston, VA 20190

Attend the Champions for Youth Summit 2024 at the largest hotel near Dulles International Airport (IAD)! Each room is equipped with generously sized workstations and views of the charming Reston Town Center or adjacent Presidents Park.

Enjoy the planned design of Reston Town Center that puts intentionality with outdoor infrastructure for you to explore without a vehicle directly from the event location with almost 30 options for food and drink all within walking or rolling distance.

Located near the Wolf Trap concert venue and adjacent to the shops and entertainment at Reston Town Center, our event venue sits within walking distance of galleries, Reston National Golf Course, and Metro service to Washington, D.C.

A block of rooms has been reserved at the prevailing state government rate of $257 per night (plus tax) until September 9, 2024, or until the group block is sold out, whichever comes first. Overnight self-parking is $12. Daily self-parking is $15.

To reserve your room at the discounted group rate, click this Room Reservation link.

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About Your Host Organizations

Established in 1999 by the Virginia General Assembly, the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth (VFHY) empowers Virginia’s youth to make healthy choices by reducing and preventing youth tobacco and nicotine use, substance use, and childhood obesity.

Prevention Connections (PC) was established in 2003 to expand the childhood obesity and tobacco-use prevention efforts of the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth. Its mission is to promote health through nutrition, increased physical activity, and tobacco prevention and cessation.