Alachua County Health Promotion and Wellness Coalition

What Alachua County Health Promotion and Wellness Coalition does

Alachua County Health Promotion and Wellness Coalition (HPW Coalition) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2013 and headquartered in Gainesville, Florida. The organization operates with 8 employees and delivers substance use prevention programs to youth, families, and residents of Alachua County across three core pillars: Youth and Family Education (including the Know the Law curriculum, Youth Summit, parent sessions, and alcohol awareness initiatives), Community Events (such as the annual Run for Your Life 5K Color Run, Town Hall, and Friday Night Done Right), and Reducing Access to Substances (compliance checks, DEA Drug Take Back Days, and drug disposal and safe storage product distribution). All programs are provided free of charge to Alachua County residents.

The organization is designated as a Drug-Free Communities Coalition and partners with twelve sectors including law enforcement (Alachua County Sheriff's Office, Gainesville Police Department, FL Division of Alcoholic Beverage and Tobacco), the DEA, Schools, the University of Florida, and CDS Family and Behavioral Health Services, Inc. as its main sponsor. CDS Family and Behavioral Health Services, Inc. anchors the coalition's funding alongside federal and local grants, donations, and event-based fundraising. Programmatic reach includes 1,500 middle and high school students annually, 300+ college students through voluntary breathalyzer programs, and over 1,000 pounds of unused medications collected since 2019 through DEA Drug Take Back Days.

HPW Coalition's business model is grant- and donation-funded with no pricing charges to end users. Its go-to-market is community-led and event-driven, leveraging social media, monthly newsletters, billboards, radio PSAs, transit ads, and grassroots word-of-mouth through coalition partners, volunteers, and youth participants. The Youth Coalition provides a cross-cutting student-led layer that supports peer education, compliance checks, and event volunteering across all program pillars. The organization has no disclosed technology platform, no AI/ML capabilities, and no commercial revenue model; it is structurally dependent on continued grant funding and community participation.

Name

Alachua County Health Promotion and Wellness Coalition

Legal name

Alachua County Health Promotion and Wellness Coalition

Website

https://hpwcoalition.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Alachua County Health Promotion and Wellness Coalition is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that provides free substance use prevention education, drug-free community events, and access reduction programs to youth, families, and residents of Alachua County, Florida, funded by grants and donations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Health & Substance Use Prevention Services

NAICS

Child and Youth Services (624110)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPAGACAE

Substance Use Disorder Prevention & Recovery Services

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Health & Medical Nonprofits

Keywords

• Substance use prevention
• Youth education programs
• Community wellness services
• Drug-free community events
• Family prevention education

Headquarters

HQ city

Gainesville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Grant Funding: HPW Coalition is funded primarily through federal and local grants. The organization receives grant funding to support substance use prevention programs, youth education initiatives, and community wellness activities throughout Alachua County.
2. Donations and Fundraising: The organization accepts donations to sustain free programs that serve local families and youth. The annual Run for Your Life 5K Color Run serves as their largest fundraiser, honoring those impacted by the opioid crisis while generating revenue to support ongoing operations.
3. Event-based Fundraising: Community events such as the 5K Color Run generate donations and sponsorships while providing drug-free activities. All programs remain free to Alachua County residents.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The Alachua County Health Promotion and Wellness Coalition (HPW) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that delivers evidence-based substance use prevention programs and community wellness initiatives to residents of Alachua County, Florida. Its core offerings center on three pillars — Youth & Family Education (Know the Law, Parent Sessions, Youth Summit, Alcohol Awareness Initiatives), Drug-Free Community Events (Run for Your Life 5K Color Run, Town Hall, Friday Night Done Right), and Reducing Access to Substances (Compliance Checks, DEA Drug Take Back Day, Drug Disposal & Safe Storage) — all provided free of charge to residents.

Product overview

The HPW Coalition is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization offering a unified suite of community-based prevention and wellness programs organized around three pillars: Youth & Family Education (Know the Law, Social Media Campaigns, Parent Sessions, Youth Summit, Alcohol Awareness Initiatives, and Escape Rooms), Community Events (Run for Your Life 5K Color Run, Town Hall, and Friday Night Done Right), and Reducing Access to Substances (Compliance Checks, DEA National Drug Take Back Day, and Drug Disposal & Safe Storage). The Youth Coalition is a cross-cutting program enabling student leadership across all three pillars. All programs are free to Alachua County residents and funded primarily through federal and local grants.

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Functional benefit

Products and services

• Know the Law A school-based course implemented at middle and high schools in Alachua County with School Resource Officer support, informing youth about alcohol and drug use laws, bullying, theft, and vandalism consequences.
• Youth Summit An all-day summer event for middle and high school students featuring interactive team competitions, substance use presentations, refusal skills training, and mental health resources.
• Parent Sessions Educational sessions for parents offering conversation guides, the Operation Parent Handbook, SAMHSA's 'Talk, They Hear You' materials, and the Hidden in Plain Sight backpack challenge.
• Run for Your Life 5K Color Run Annual September 5K Color Run serving as HPW's largest fundraiser, honoring those impacted by the opioid crisis, featuring narcan training, a community fair, games, color stations, and raffle prizes, with an average of 165 participants per year.
• Town Hall Free community event held in April or May featuring nationally recognized speakers, dinner, raffle prizes, and resources for students and parents to discuss substance use concerns.
• Friday Night Done Right Weekend drug-free alternative activities for youth including kickball tournaments, arts and crafts, tug-of-war, movies, and free food with refusal skills and healthy coping strategy lessons.
• DEA National Drug Take Back Day Biannual (April and October) anonymous collection of expired or unwanted prescription medications across multiple Alachua County sites, with law enforcement safety oversight and DEA-managed environmental disposal; over 1,000 pounds collected since 2019.
• Compliance Checks Underage purchase attempt program conducted by Youth Coalition members under FL Division of Alcoholic Beverage and Tobacco supervision; vendors that fail receive citations while compliant vendors receive merchant recognition certificates and window clings.
• Drug Disposal & Safe Storage Free distribution of Deterra and RxDestroyer drug disposal products and SaferRx combination keypad medication lockboxes to families, distributed at all HPW community events.
• Youth Coalition A youth-led leadership group for middle and high school students in Alachua County focused on substance use prevention, peer education, event volunteering, and community outreach.
• Escape Rooms Virtual interactive activities for youth available in Star Wars, Marvel, Clue, and Harry Potter themes, teaching substance use risks and mental health awareness through team-based problem solving.
• Alcohol Awareness Initiatives Educational events including fatal vision goggles demonstrations at rural high schools, prom promise pledges, and voluntary breathalyzer tests conducted with the Gainesville Police Department, reaching over 300 college students.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reaches 1,500 middle and high school students annually through interactive prevention programs
• +3 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• CDS Family and Behavioral Health Services, Inc.coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2013CDS Family and Behavioral Health Services, Inc. serves as the main sponsor for the HPW Coalition. As a vital partner in the mission to prevent substance use and improve overall wellness for residents in Alachua County, CDS provides organizational sponsorship and support for coalition operations.
• Alachua County Sheriff's OfficecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartners with HPW Coalition to implement community programs focused on substance use prevention and safety. Provides support for compliance checks and community safety initiatives.
• Gainesville Police DepartmentcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartners with HPW for voluntary breathalyzer test events in midtown Gainesville and supports drug-free community initiatives. Youth coalition compliance checks conducted under FL Division of Alcoholic Beverage and Tobacco supervision.
• Tobacco Free AlachuacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner agency working closely with HPW Coalition to implement community programs and reduce tobacco and substance use among youth.
• FL Division of Alcoholic Beverage and TobaccocoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOversees youth-led compliance checks in Alachua County where Youth Coalition members attempt underage purchases under agent supervision.
• University of FloridaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerUniversity of Florida students participate in HPW Coalition as student interns and volunteers. Student involvement provides workforce development while supporting coalition operations.
• Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartners with HPW Coalition to hold DEA National Drug Take Back Day events twice yearly in April and October, providing safe disposal of collected medications.
• School Resource OfficerscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSchool Resource Officers support Know the Law presentations at middle and high schools across Alachua County, providing law enforcement perspective on substance use consequences.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Regional players

• Tobacco Free Alachua: County-level substance prevention partner that HPW formally collaborates with for programming. Operates the identical DFC-style multi-sector coalition model in the same Alachua County geography.

Direct peers

• Wake Forest Community Youth Substance Use Prevention Coalition: County-level youth substance use prevention coalition structurally analogous to HPW, operating DFC-aligned programs in a single community. Useful functional peer for benchmarking coalition-scale operations.
• Students Teaching Attitudes about Prevention (STAP): Peer-led substance use prevention organization using student-to-student education. The peer-education deployment model is directly comparable to HPW's Youth Coalition and refusal-skills delivery.
• Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD): National nonprofit delivering community substance use prevention and victim advocacy. MADD operates a similar model of community education, school-based programs, and law enforcement partnerships targeting the same behaviors HPW addresses.
• Partnership to End Addiction: National nonprofit providing substance use prevention resources, parent education, and community toolkits. Operates the same Drug-Free Communities support infrastructure and is a direct functional peer to HPW's parent education and youth prevention programs.
• Drug Free America Foundation: Substance use prevention nonprofit focused on community education and policy advocacy. Comparable mission scope to HPW's awareness and access-reduction programming at a national scale.
• SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions): National student-led organization focused on preventing underage drinking, drug use, and destructive behaviors. SADD's youth coalition and school-based peer education model is the closest nationwide analog to HPW's Youth Coalition and school-delivered programming.
• Informed Families: Florida-based family-focused prevention nonprofit delivering drug prevention and parenting education statewide. Closest geographic and model analog to HPW, sharing Florida school- and family-based delivery.
• National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (dba NCADD): Legacy national organization addressing alcoholism and drug dependence through community education and prevention. Operates overlapping prevention programming with HPW at a national affiliate level.

Broad incumbents

• CADCA (Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America): National umbrella organization supporting DFC coalitions like HPW. Provides training and resources to HPW directly and serves as the broader movement in which HPW operates.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/HPWCoalition
• Instagraminstagram.com/accounts/login/?next=%2Fhpwcoalition%2F&source=omni_redirect&hl=en
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/alachua-county-health-promotion-and-wellness-coalition

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Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Funding overview

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