From Maternal Infant Health programs to early learning schools for pre-schoolers, the Delta Health Alliance is helping parents and their kids to make a better life in the Mississippi Delta.

Moms find the resources they need through DHA’s Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker program, a collaboration with Mississippi Valley State University that aims to improve access to appropriate health care services for low-income mothers and expectant mothers. Healthy babies and healthy moms are the goal of this important effort that is infant centered, dealing with the issues that may lead to unhealthy children. Program staff builds bonds of trust, not just with moms but with their entire families.

And as these children grow, DHA is there, offering parents early learning and reading programs through its Promise School that prepares kids for kindergarten and beyond. A partnership with Mississippi State University, the Promise School is a summer program that provides children with the individual attention that moves them forward. Another partnership addressing early learning is the Imagination Library with Mississippi Valley State University which mails free books each month to pre-school kids up to their fifth birthday. Thousands of Delta children are already enrolled.

Through the Delta Health Alliance, parents in the Delta always have a partner.