Healthy Places Grants 

In 2025, LCPH awarded eight Healthy Places grants totalling $50,000. All funded projects are “built environment” projects, meaning that they will change the landscape of the community. Projects also demonstrated good community partnerships and connections to the Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP). LCPH awarded grants to the following projects:

• Amherst Exempted Village Schools will install a Story Book Stroll and signage to the Comet Pride Trail.
• City of Avon will install three bike racks and a bike repair station in various parks throughout the city.
• Elyria Community Partnership will install murals with the help of partners and wayfinding signage to bring exposure to the East Falls Riverwalk in Downtown Elyria.
• Girl Scouts of North East Ohio will install new playground equipment at Columbia Park in Columbia Station. 
• Friends of Findley State Park will install a concrete pad for pickleball courts and a stargazing pad at Findley State Park. 
• Kipton Village will install a hydration station at Kipton Community Park.
• Lorain County Children Services will install playground equipment at their new Visitation Center in Amherst.
• Penfield Township Recreation will install playground equipment to replace the old equipment at Penfield Recreation Park.

Lorain County Public Health (LCPH) is committed to increasing access to healthy eating and active living opportunities to prevent chronic disease. LCPH offers Healthy Places grants to nonprofits, community organizations, and other groups that serve people in Lorain County. The purpose of these grants is to create a long-lasting impact on the health of people in Lorain County, especially people in overburdened populations. Because the aim of the grants is to create long-lasting impact through infrastructure or environment improvements, LCPH does not award funding for personnel, programming or events.

Learn about shared use - the concept that makes and keeps these projects open to the public.

This Healthy Places Grant program has invested nearly $850,000 back into the community since 2015. The grantees also leveraged an additional $270,000 in non-LCPH funding for their projects.

Call 440-322-6367 with questions and ask for the Population Health division, or email ph@loraincountyhealth.com