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The Lima/Allen County College Access program, located in Lima, Ohio, was founded in 2002 through the Lima/Allen County Chamber of Commerce Education Committee.  The program operates under the Lima Area Chamber Foundation. 

The mission of the Lima/Allen County College Access Program is to assist residents of Lima and Allen County to pursue an education after high school.

Lima/Allen County College Access Program provides:

• One-on-one advising, classroom presentations, and workshops to parents, students, and adults on the college process
• Early Awareness Activities (summer early awareness programming and middle school career explorations)
• College Resource Centers (located at the YMCA, YWCA, and Bradfield Centers)
• Financial Aid Advising (College Goal Sunday, workshops, financial aid advisors at the resource centers, and Financial aid 101 session at Superior Financial Education Day)
• Last Dollar Scholarships
• Enrichment Trips

Allen County is also a GEAR UP Lighthouse site. GEAR UP Ohio envisions every student, regardless of his or her parents’ wealth, ethnic background or geographic location, graduating from high school with the knowledge and skills he or she needs to succeed in college and the workplace—and it sees a future in which fewer students need remediation during their first year of postsecondary education. For more information, please visit http://www.regents.state.oh.us/gearup/index.html

For more information on the Lima/Allen County College Access Program, contact:

Ms Angela R. Meyer
College Access/GEAR UP Director
Lima/Allen County College Access Program
147 North Main Street
Lima, OH 45801

Phone: (419) 222-9378
Fax: (419) 229-0266
E-mail: ameyer@limachamber.com
Web site: http://www.ohiocan.org/Allen