How We Help
Education
A solid foundation in education is key to success later in life. Your donation funds teachers, books and extracurricular activities to help get youngsters off to the right start.
Health
Basic health care that many of us take for granted can be hard for others to access. We ensure that low-income youth and adults have access to the health practitioners they need.
Housing
Community is the family that goes beyond family. It is the people and places that we come in contact with each and every day. When we strengthen communities, we strengthen individuals.
Our Services
Domestic Violence And Sexual Assault Intervention And Prevention
Supportive advocasy services to all survivors of intimate partner violence and sexual violence residing in the counties of Charles City, King and Queen, King William, and New Kent.
877-966-HELP (4357)
24 Hour Hotline
Economic Empowerment
Thrive Virginia provides utility arrears assistance to residents in our service area.
Food Security
The King William County Feeding Program provides meal bags with easy to prepare meals to children in King William County and King and Queen County during extended school breaks. Please note that during COVID-19 we will be distributing food gift cards.
Early Childhood Education And Parenting
Our Healthy Families program provides support to families during pregnancy and the first few years of a child's life. These services are provided free-of- charge to families living in Charles City County and New Kent County.
Poverty in the United States is as far reaching as it is damaging.
Evidence has shown that the neighborhoods we live in shape our health, our prosperity, and our children’s educational success. Residents of high-poverty neighborhoods do worse on a variety of measures, even when they themselves are not impoverished.
We understand that the consequences of poverty—homelessness, poor health, lack of educational access, violence, and hunger—can be severe and frequently have long-term consequences that lead to families being persistently poor across generations.
Thrive Virginia, a Community Action Agency founded in 1970, with a mission to eliminate poverty, seeks to ensure that families live in neighborhoods of opportunity, not restraint. Each program that we have established has been crafted to target one of the many and pervasive root causes of generational poverty.
