Our partners
Food For Thought
Food For Thought provides backpacks filled with easy-to-make meals so children can focus on their development and education, not on where the next meal is coming from. Public schools provide breakfast and lunch, but what happens in the evenings and on weekends? Ohana students help pack and provide healthy meals for children and families in need, and learn the value of compassion and the reality of food insecurity in their own community.
Alaqua Animal Refuge
Alaqua is a no-kill animal shelter and sanctuary in the Florida Panhandle and a recognized leader in animal rescue, welfare, cruelty prevention, and advocacy. Partnering with Alaqua gives our students the chance to care for rescued animals while learning about advocacy, responsibility, and protecting vulnerable lives.
Caring and Sharing of South Walton
Caring and Sharing provides crisis relief to neighbors in need through financial assistance, food, counseling, and case management. Ohana students contribute to clothing drives, the food pantry, and support services for local families, building empathy and a deeper connection to the community.
CREA, our sister school in Nicaragua
Students travel to our sister school in Nicaragua to paint libraries, deliver resources, and take part in cultural and language immersion, while Ohana teachers partner with and train Nicaraguan educators in STEAM.
Earth Day at Ohana
Each year we celebrate Earth Day with a tradition that brings the whole school together: a bike ride along scenic 30A to kick off the day. From there, students roll up their sleeves for beach and campus clean-ups, tree plantings, and other projects that give back to the community and the planet. At Ohana, Earth Day isn't just a date on the calendar. It is a commitment we renew every year.
When the community needed us
In the aftermath of Hurricane Michael, Ohana students, teachers, and families came together to support first responders and neighbors in need, helping establish Hope Panhandle through hands-on relief and organized emergency support. That same commitment continues today through the ongoing trips to Nicaragua and the four service days built into every school year.
A big congratulations to Grayson Schuler for volunteering to lead the Foundations group in collecting food items for our Partner in Education, Food For Thought. Grayson has shown exemplary leadership, outstanding organization, and a passion for promoting this cause with other learning groups.From an Ohana student spotlight
What students learn
- That the community they live in has needs they can meet, this week.
- How to organize a drive, a clean-up, or a trip, including the logistics nobody sees.
- The habit of showing up, four times a year, every year.
- Service hours that count toward National Honor Society and college applications, earned doing real work.
