of the future." Valentine and Mary-Cooke Branch Munford were also active in the "May Campaign" of 1905 during which pro-school reform speakers traveled the state, giving more than 300 speeches at 108 meetings in 94 counties. More than 50 local education leagues were founded as a result of this effort, most of them led by women. Health care reform Valentine's work in public schools made her aware of the need for improved access to health care, as she saw children suffering from treatable illnesses. In January 1902 at the area Woman's Club, Valentine heard Sadie Heath Cabiness, director of nurses at Old Dominion Hospital, speak about her work establishing the Nurses' Settlement two years earlier and the importance of teaching patients about hygiene, nutrition, and home care in efforts to lower hospital readmission rates. Cabiness also shared the ongoing struggles she and her volunteer nurses faced in raising financial support and public buy-in of their work. Instructive Visiting Nurses Association Inspired by Cabiness's work, Valentine convened a group of women in her home three weeks later to hear about these nurses' experiences. The gatherings led to the founding of the Instructive Visiting Nurses Association (IVNA). The IVNA served Richmond's lower-income residents to ensure their access to health care. Within IVNA's first year, Valentine successfully lobbied Richmond's city council to provide funds to cover the salary for a nurse to oversee the nursing care at Richmond's almshouse, the City Home; prior to this development, residents had to rely one another for care. In 1903 the IVNA began sending nurses into Richmond's schools. Eradicating tuberculosis By 1904, Richmond was facing a tuberculosis epidemic. Valentine was elected president of the IVNA in order to oversee the organization's campaign to help eradicate the disease. She worked with the Board of Health to establish two fully staffed tuberculosis clinics—one for whites and one for blacks—which greatly reduced the number of new cases of the disease. From there, Valentine and Sadie Heath Cabiness tackled the issue of lower-income sufferers of the disease who could not gain admission to hospitals or access to treatment, leaving them both incurable and likely to spread the disease. Valentine and Cabiness established the Anti-Tuberculosis Auxiliary (a subsidiary of the IVNA), which led to the opening of Pine Camp Tuberculosis Hospital in 1910. At Pine Camp, tuberculosis patients at all stages of the disease received specialized treatment. The IVNA's effort to eradicate