Okaloosa County Health Improvement Partnership

OCHIP 

The Okaloosa County Health Improvement Partnership (OCHIP) works to improve the health of residents, mobilizing organizations and individuals throughout the county. These individuals form OCHIP workgroups.

Priority health areas were identified from the Community Health Assessment (CHA) leadership team and community feedback via town hall meetings, online surveys, and in-person meetings. These areas were presented to the community in September 2022 at the Okaloosa Health Summit where attendees selected four priority health areas. The workgroups plan to tackle issues like infant mortality, drug use, mental health, and social support.

1. Healthy Behaviors 
2. Healthy Children
3. Healthy Communities
4. Healthy Moms & Babies

Anyone is invited to join one or more workgroups. If interested, please contact HealthyOkaloosa@FLhealth.gov.

• 2023 CHIP Annual Report

Meeting Minutes 

• November 14, 2022 
• September 27, 2022
• September 8, 2022 

OCHIP Champions 

OCHIP champions serve as leaders for the group and are charged with keeping the group on track. This group engages in open discussion of work in their OCHIP group to collaborate and move the toward reaching health improvement goals for residents and visitors. 

Meeting Minutes  

• April 25, 2024 
• December 6, 2023 
• September 13, 2023 
• June 14, 2023 
• March 8, 2023 
• February 1, 2023 

OCHIP Celebration  

The first OCHIP celebration was held on February 22, 2024. Each OCHIP group presented awards to dedicated members and shared accomplishments from the past year.

DOH-Okaloosa presented the OCHIP Champion of the Year Award to Chief Robert Bage of the Fort Walton Beach Police Department.

• OCHIP Celebration