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Reducing Teen Pregnancy by Karen Matthews
For the last eight months, Delta Health Alliance staff members have been using a program aimed at reducing teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The program is called BART, for Becoming a Responsible Teen and to date 102 teenagers from the Indianola area have gone through the eight week program. A trained teacher meets [...]
Leland Medical Clinic Update
For the last month, Delta Health Alliance has been operating the Leland Medical Clinic. In addition to helping patients who need medical services, our goal has also been to transform the clinic into what is called a “patient-centered medical home” (PCMH). It is a new approach to providing primary care that seeks to address a [...]
Education Strengthens the Southgate Community by Karen Matthews
Academic research has demonstrated over and over again that one of the barriers to economic and education progress in low income neighborhoods in lack of information about opportunities within the larger community. Traditional media just doesn’t work in these neighborhoods. To respond to this challenge one project of the Indianola Promise Community is to take [...]
Fit Day in Indianola by Karen Matthews
Last Saturday, the Indianola Promise Community and the Mayor’s Health Council sponsored “Fit Day” in the Southgate neighborhood. Encouraging children and parents to become more physically active and increase their intake of nutritious foods was the goal of the day long series of events. Mayor Steve Rosenthal and his wife, IPC staff, and other community [...]
What are the signs of breast cancer? by Dr. Richardson
What are the signs of breast cancer? Some signs and symptoms of breast cancer include swelling, redness, increase in size or a change in shape, nipple discharge other than breast milk, general pain and lumps or nodes in the breast. If you have any of these symptoms you should contact your primary care provider. Testing [...]
Indianola Youth Council by Karen Matthews
Indianola’s middle and high school students are making a buzz in the community thanks to the newly formed Indianola Youth Council. What started as a couple of concerned high school students wanting to bring positive changes to the community has now grown into a formal organization made up of students from grades eight through twelve. [...]
Mississippi on the Cutting Edge
Mississippi has one of only 12 promise neighborhood grants the federal government has funded throughout the country. Here in the Mississippi Delta, it’s called the Indianola Promise Community, is a major project of Delta Health Alliance, and is designed to focus a number of different programs and interventions in a coordinated way to improve the education opportunities for [...]
Books for Sunflower County Children by Karen Matthews
A free book for any Sunflower County child between the ages of 0-5. That’s how the Imagination Library program hopes to encourage parents reading to their children and then children reading on their own. Imagination Library is a joint initiative between the Dolly Parton Foundation and Delta Health Alliance. Once a child’s family signs up for the program, he [...]
Indianola Parents & Schools by Karen Matthews
Two years ago, the Indianola Promise Community (IPC) formed a partnership with the Jackson chapter of Parents for Public Schools to create a network of parents with children at Lockard and Carver Elementary Schools. The goal was to equip these parents with the knowledge, skills and motivation to work with teachers and administrators to improve [...]
Indianola Youth Council by Karen Matthews
Early last Saturday morning, some of Indianola’s brightest students participated in the first meeting of the newly formed Indianola Youth Council. Ten junior and senior high students from local public and private schools make up the council, which will advise the mayor and other public officials on matters ranging from community service opportunities, ways to improve education, recreational needs,and similar [...]
