Activate Allen County

What Activate Allen County does

Activate Allen County is a community health coalition founded in 2012 in Lima, Ohio, that operates a coordinated portfolio of public health programs across Allen County and (for its school program) into Auglaize and Putnam Counties. Its core deliverables include the Active Change-QUIT tobacco cessation program delivered at Mercy Health–St. Rita's Medical Center, a referral pathway to the Ohio Tobacco Quit Line, and five "Activated Challenges" grant programs targeting schools, neighborhoods, businesses, faith communities, and child care providers. These challenges pair nominal grant funding ($500-$2,000 per award) with technical assistance, offering participants a structured framework to adopt health and wellness policies. The coalition also maintains the Allen County Health Atlas, a public data platform co-developed with Mercy Health and Allen County Public Health, and a Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) organizing its work into four priority areas: Thriving Communities, Mental and Behavioral Health, Supports for Healthy Living, and Maternal and Infant Health.

Underlying the programming is a multi-sector governance model — an Executive Council drawn from Mercy Health, Allen County Public Health, the City of Lima, the Lima Chamber of Commerce, United Way of Greater Lima, Bluffton University, and the Mental Health and Recovery Services Board — supported by 10+ workgroups covering opioid response, food policy, tobacco control, maternal-infant health, bike/pedestrian access, community violence prevention, and newcomer services. Technology is light: a website (activateallencounty.com), social media channels (Facebook, YouTube, X, Pinterest), email newsletters, and the Health Atlas data portal. There is no proprietary technology platform and no AI or ML components are disclosed.

The organization is funded through grants (including from the Ohio Department of Health), in-kind contributions from Executive Council members, and community donations. All programs and services are provided free of charge to participants; there is no commercial pricing model. With 1-10 employees and no disclosed revenue, the entity functions as a community-funded public health initiative that derives its reach from partner infrastructure rather than direct service delivery at scale.

Name

Activate Allen County

Legal name

Activate Allen County

Website

https://activateallencounty.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Activate Allen County is a 2012-founded community health coalition in Lima, Ohio that delivers free public health programs — including tobacco cessation, the Activated Challenges grant suite, and the Allen County Health Atlas — to Allen County residents, schools, faith communities, and businesses through Mercy Health and government partnerships.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Community Health Services

NAICS

Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers (621420)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Health Promotion, Prevention & Community Health Programs (BPAIAJAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Behavioral Health & Substance Use Public Health Programs (BPAIAJAK), Community Health, Prevention & Health Education (BPAGACAC)

Keywords

• Community health coalition
• Public health initiatives
• Tobacco cessation programs
• Wellness challenge grants
• Community health improvement

Headquarters

HQ city

Lima

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Grant Funding and Community Donations: Activate Allen County operates as a locally funded public health initiative. Revenue is derived from grant funding, financial support from Executive Council member organizations (including Mercy Health, Allen County Public Health, and others), and donations from community members. The organization was founded in 2012 and has grown into a sustainable community collaboration.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Activate Allen County operates a coordinated portfolio of free public health programs and grant-funded community challenges for residents and organizations in Allen County, Ohio. Core offerings include the Active Change-QUIT tobacco cessation program, the Allen County Health Atlas data platform, and five Activated Challenges targeting schools, neighborhoods, businesses, faith communities, and child care providers. All programs are organized under a four-priority Community Health Improvement Plan covering Thriving Communities, Mental & Behavioral Health, Supports for Healthy Living, and Maternal & Infant Health.

Product overview

Activate Allen County is a public health initiative offering a coordinated portfolio of health and wellness programs. The core offerings include two tobacco cessation pathways (Active Change-QUIT and Ohio Tobacco Quit Line), five Activated Challenges targeting schools, neighborhoods, businesses, faith communities, and child care providers, and a Community Health Atlas data platform. Programs are delivered through multiple community coalitions and workgroups covering behavioral health, food policy, tobacco control, maternal-infant health, and transportation. The Allen County Health Atlas serves as the data backbone, while the CHIP framework organizes priorities into four focus areas: Thriving Communities, Mental & Behavioral Health, Supports for Healthy Living, and Maternal & Infant Health.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Tobacco Cessation Program: A smoking cessation support program offering free services including the Active Change-QUIT 12-week program and connection to the Ohio Tobacco Quit Line.
• Activated Challenges
• Allen County Health Atlas

Products and services

• Active Change-QUIT Tobacco Cessation Program A 12-week free smoking cessation program offering six weekly in-person meetings followed by six weeks of phone support. Participants receive one week of free nicotine patches after every weekly session attended. Delivered at Mercy Health – St. Rita's Medical Center for Allen County residents seeking to quit smoking.
• Ohio Tobacco Quit Line Referral A referral to the state-wide Ohio Tobacco Quit Line (1-800-QUIT-NOW / Quit Logix) that offers free quit coaching, telephone counseling, and free nicotine patches, gum, or lozenges for up to eight weeks for eligible Ohio residents referred by Activate Allen County.
• Activated School Challenge A school wellness challenge program for K-12 schools across Allen, Auglaize, and Putnam Counties, designed to increase physical activity, improve nutrition education, enhance emotional wellbeing, and implement school wellness policies through structured awards and technical assistance.
• Active Neighborhood Challenge A grant program operated in partnership with the City of Lima's Neighborhood Impact Program that awards up to $2,000 per selected application to neighborhood associations recognized by the City of Lima and 501(c)(3) organizations located within Allen County for community-building and health-focused activities.
• Activated Business Challenge A workplace wellness program offering technical assistance, breastfeeding-friendly business consultations, toolkits, and resources to Allen County businesses seeking to implement breastfeeding-friendly policies and improve employee wellness, with guidance on Ohio Breastfeeding Friendly Worksite Awards.
• Activated Faith Community Challenge A faith-based health initiative providing technical assistance, financial support, and resources to faith-based organizations in Allen County that want to increase their support for the health and well-being of their constituents through healthy eating, physical activity, and chronic disease prevention programming.
• Activated Child Care Challenge A child care wellness program that provides assessments, action plans, and grant funding between $500 and $1,000 per award to licensed child care providers in Allen County for implementing health, wellness, and physical activity improvements in their childcare environments.
• Allen County Health Atlas An interactive online data platform created in partnership with Mercy Health and Allen County Public Health that allows residents to review, explore, and compare health-related data over time and across communities throughout Allen County, and to track progress implementing the county's Community Health Improvement Plan.

Quantifiable outcome

• 47 Allen County residents died from drug overdose in 2022
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers28 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

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Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core, secondary and minor.

• Mercy HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2012Mercy Health is a key Executive Council member and primary healthcare delivery partner for Activate Allen County. Mercy Health co-powers the Activated Child Care Challenge and Active Neighborhood Challenge, and provides facilities for the Tobacco Cessation Program at St. Rita's Medical Center.
• Allen County Public HealthcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAllen County Public Health is an Executive Council member and co-creator of the Allen County Health Atlas. The organization contributes to the Creating Healthy Communities workgroup and provides leadership on the Allen County Opiate Community Action Commission.
• City of LimacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe City of Lima partners with Activate Allen County through its Neighborhood Impact Program, which co-administers the Active Neighborhood Challenge grant program. City of Lima also contributes representation to the Allen County Opiate Community Action Commission.
• Lima/Allen County Chamber of CommercesecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Lima Chamber of Commerce is an Executive Council member, providing business community engagement and support for the organization's health improvement initiatives.
• United Way of Greater LimasecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerUnited Way of Greater Lima is an Executive Council member, supporting Activate Allen County's community health initiatives through organizational resources and community network access.
• Area Agency on Aging 3secondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerArea Agency on Aging 3 participates in the FACTS Coalition (Future of Accessible-Coordinated Transportation Services) and contributes to transportation access initiatives for seniors in Allen County.
• Crime Victim ServicessecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerCrime Victim Services leads the Community Violence Prevention Coalition, a workgroup under Activate Allen County's collaborative framework focused on addressing community violence as a public health issue.
• WOCAP (Women's Options Center and Pregnancy Center)secondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerWOCAP is an Executive Council member and was a 2025 Child Care Challenge Award Winner, operating the Head Start program in Allen County.
• Mental Health and Recovery Services BoardsecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Mental Health and Recovery Services Board administers the Allen County Opiate Community Action Commission through Contact Tammie Colon. It is a key partner in addressing substance use and mental health issues in the county.
• Bluffton UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerBluffton University is an Executive Council member, contributing academic resources and engagement to the coalition.
• Ohio Department of HealthsecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Ohio Department of Health provides grant funding through which Allen County operates as part of breastfeeding support initiatives. ODH grant resources enable free breastfeeding consultation services, toolkits, and education materials for Allen County businesses.
• Ohio Tobacco Quit Line (Quit Logix)secondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Ohio Tobacco Quit Line (1-800-QUIT-NOW) provides free quit coaching, telephone counseling, and free nicotine patches/gum/lozenges for up to eight weeks for eligible participants. Activate Allen County refers residents to this state service.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Get Healthy Philly: Philadelphia Department of Public Health initiative focused on chronic disease prevention, tobacco control, and community health partnerships. Directly comparable as a public-sector-led community health promotion program with challenge-style campaigns and cross-sector coalitions.
• Live Well San Diego: County-wide community health initiative led by the County of San Diego with public health, healthcare, business, and community partners. Directly comparable as a county-level coalition with multi-segment 'challenge' style programming and explicit focus on health promotion and prevention.
• Rethink Health: National initiative that supports regional health improvement collaboratives with frameworks, financing, and coaching for multi-sector community health work. Directly comparable as a convener/framework provider for the kind of coalition-based community health model AAC operates.
• Healthy Cleveland Initiative: Cleveland-area community health coalition involving the Cleveland Clinic and municipal partners, focused on chronic disease prevention and community wellness. Comparable as an Ohio/regional multi-stakeholder health coalition with similar programming around tobacco, nutrition, and physical activity.
• The Health Collaborative: Cincinnati-based regional health improvement collaborative that convenes hospitals, public health agencies, and community partners across Southwest Ohio to drive community health priorities. Directly comparable as an Ohio-based multi-sector health coalition with similar workgroup, data, and program delivery structure to Activate Allen County.

Others

• County Health Rankings & Roadmaps: University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute program that ranks county-level health outcomes and provides a 'What Works for Health' toolkit used by community health coalitions nationwide. Comparable as an enabling/thematic resource that AAC's Health Atlas approach parallels.
• NACCHO (National Association of County and City Health Officials): National membership organization representing local health departments, including county health departments like Allen County Public Health that anchor AAC's coalition. Comparable as the broader ecosystem/association that supports the type of local public health partnership model AAC operates.

Emerging players

• Wellness Council of America (WELCOA): National organization supporting workplace wellness programming, including breastfeeding-friendly employer initiatives similar to AAC's Activated Business Challenge. Comparable as a provider of the workplace wellness framework AAC adapts for Allen County employers.

Regional players

• HealthPath Foundation of Ohio: Ohio-focused health foundation that funds community health coalitions, including those addressing chronic disease, behavioral health, and maternal-infant health. Comparable as an Ohio-based funder and capacity-builder for the same type of regional health coalitions AAC participates in.

Broad incumbents

• Conduent Healthy Communities Institute: Provides community health needs assessment and data platform tools to hundreds of US counties, including health atlas-style products. Comparable as the broader incumbent provider of the kind of community health data infrastructure that Activate Allen County's Health Atlas represents.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/ActivateAllenCo
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCFLmxNt5VuqT2gt6Tv_60BQ
• Facebookfacebook.com/ActivateAllenCounty
• Pinterestpinterest.com/ActivateAllenCO

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

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