The Henrico Too Smart 2 Start Coalition was one of five youth teams in the state to win a 2021 mini-grant from Virginia ABC for its substance use prevention efforts.
The team participated in the peer leadership program YADAPP, which begins each summer when high schools and community groups send groups of four students, assisted by an adult sponsor, to a five-day kick-off conference. Teams broaden their knowledge of substance use prevention and work together to create strategic prevention plans known as Strategies to Act Now Plans, to be implemented during the following school year.
Schools or organizations represented by the outstanding student teams will each receive $250 to support their substance use prevention efforts. Teams from Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria, Heritage High School in Newport News, and Franklin and Page counties were among other winners of the mini-grants.