The Indianola Promise Community is a Delta Health Alliance initiative uniting health care, education, community and faith-based services to provide people the opportunity to realize their promise as active members and leaders in the Indianola community. IPC represents an effort to establish best practices from the success of the Harlem Children Zone in Mississippi. Starting with prenatal care, through infancy, as toddlers, teens, students and high school graduates, IPC will fortify the efforts of Indianola youth as they tackle life’s many challenges.
The Delta Health Alliance is a nonprofit organization that supports community-based healthcare initiatives that target critical health and wellness issues in the Mississippi Delta. Located in Stoneville, Mississippi, the Delta Health Alliance currently funds 35 community-based programs that are spread throughout the Delta region.
Healthy Babies
Supplementing existing programs designed to keep babies well, Healthy Babies focuses on outreach. Healthy Babies will feature direct, continuous contact with new parents in their homes to reduce infant mortality and address low birth weight.
Teen Pregnancy
IPC’s efforts to help teen mothers and their children will supplement existing programs to improve parenting skills and keep new moms and their infants healthier.
Preschool and Child Care
A high quality early childhood education experience provides a strong foundation for future academic success. To strengthen preschool and child care education opportunities, a variety of quality enhancement initiatives target the families, teachers, and directors who impact IPC’s youngest learners. Projects include community-based parenting education, training and technical
assistance for educators, a literacy outreach program, a career ladder program, and more.
K-6 After-school & Summer Programs
To give academic achievement a boost in these grade levels, increased attention will be devoted to the material students are provided to learn, how classes are conducted, and how they are tested. All of this will be conducted during after-school and summer school programs.
Promise School
The Promise School prepares over 100 Indianola students for kindergarten. With no more than 12 children and two teachers per class, each child receives the individual attention needed to learn.Program graduates make significant gains in literacy skills preparing them for a successful kindergarten experience.
IPC Family Health Clinic
The IPC Family Health Clinic is one of many ways Indianola residents will enjoy greater access to health care. Designed to serve patients from infancy to 18 years of age, the clinic will provide preventive, acute and chronic care. When school-based screenings identify issues that require follow-up, the students will be referred to the IPC Family Health Clinic.
IPC Summer Camps
The first set of Indianola Promise Community (IPC) summer camps served over 600 campers, ranging in age from 3 to 18, throughout Indianola. Each camp has its own purpose, from character development and exercise (including swimming lessons), to learning music and dance, to becoming certified for childcare or nursing, to learning about space exploration. Hundreds of Indianola students have experienced the educational adventure of their lives.
South Gate Park
Next to Bethune Recreation Center, 350 Indianola volunteers built a playground in just six hours, designed by South Gate’s children, thanks to the efforts of Delta Health Alliance, neighborhood residents, corporate partners, city leaders and KaBOOM!
