Local health officials say residents in Allen County have held their own when it comes to personal health in 2021.
Allen County Public Health and Activate Allen County are gearing up to release the results of the 2021 Allen County Health Risk and Community Needs Assessment Findings. The official release of the data will be Thursday, May 12th. Surveys were mailed to 1,200 random Allen County adults and an additional random number of students in middle and high school took part in a youth survey.
Josh Unterbrink with Activate Allen County explains, “The big surprise is that we’re doing well in a lot of areas. We’re really keeping pace with the state and the national level. There's some other areas that we’re not doing so great and we have a lot of room to work on. I think mental health and behavioral health is something that is really popping up across the nation as a real need. We’re no different here locally but we’re doing a lot of great work to address some of these needs.”
There will be a stakeholder’s breakfast on May 12th to release all the results. The public can watch it live streaming on Activate Allen County’s Facebook page.
