Dr. Karen C. Matthews, PhD
October 29, 2014
The Work of Delta Health Alliance
• Access to Healthcare
• Leland Medical Clinic
• Eating and Living Well
• Delta Parents as Teachers
• Delta Healthy Sprouts
• Education
• Tobacco Cessation
• Save the Children Early Childhood
Development
• Health Information Technology
• Electronic Health Records
• Health Information Exchange
• Indianola Promise Community
THIS IS THE INDIANOLA PROMISE COMMUNITY
PAT - IMPROVED CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Families benefitting from PAT
have healthier birth weights.
92%
91%
90.20%
88.40%
84%
Nationally
(Non-PAT)
Mississippi
(Non-PAT)
Delta Counties
(Non-PAT)
Sunflower County Leflore County
PAT participants PAT participants
Source: National Kids Count, 2012, Delta Counties include Bolivar, Coahoma, Monroe, Quitman, Tallahachie, Tunica, and Washington.
PAT - IMPROVED CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Sunflower County shows improved
rates of childhood immunization.
IMMUNIZATION RATE
82%
88%
71.50%
National
Mississippi
Source: Mississippi State Department of Health
Sunflower County
PAT participants
PAT - INCREASED SCHOOL READINESS
Over 83% of child participants in the PAT program are
developmentally on target across all five domains of development.
94.20%
93.80%
94.20%
Gross Motor Skills
Fine Motor Skills
Problem Solving Skills
96.90%
ON TARGET
97.30%
Communication Skills
Personal Social Skills
PARENTS AS TEACHERS (PAT)
Preterm/Low birth weight infant
Average cost of $15,000
Average hospital stay of 12 days
Versus
Normal birth weight births
Average cost of $600
Average hospital stay 1.9 day days
National research places the per-child cost of preterm or low birth weight birth
across the child’s life at about $51,000
PARENTS AS TEACHERS (PAT)
 Conservative estimates would place the
financial return generated by this increase in
healthy births at $14.07 million across the
Delta
 A Delta wide program serving all income
eligible families would cost $2.01 million
 Generating a rate of return of $7 for every
dollar investing in the program in reduced
costs of low birth weight births alone

Sawhill, I. V., & Karpilow, Q. (July 2014). How much could we improve children's life changes by intervening early and often? Center on Children and Families at
BROOKINGS. Center on Children and Families Brief, 54.
IMAGINATION LIBRARY
Children who receive age appropriate books
mailed home each month are better prepared
early readers than children not in the program.
57%
42%
non IL-participants…
IL-participants…
Imagination Library in Indianola: mailing books to children age 0-5
PROMISE SCHOOL
The Promise School is responsible for
significant gains in kindergarten readiness.
59%
40%
Before Promise School
Average % Task Mastery
After Promise School
Average % Task Mastery
Promise School: an intensive 6-week pre-kindergarten for incoming kindergartners
SUPPORTING PARENTS TO ASSURE READY KIDS (SPARK)
Children in the SPARK program
improve language and literacy skills.
80%
70% 72%
PRESCHOOL-AGE SPARK PARTICIPANTS
MEETING WIDELY HELD EXPECTATIONS
70%
57% 59%
60%
50%
40%
30%
23%
20%
10%
7%
0%
Fall 2013
Winter 2014
Spring 2014
LANGUAGE
SPARK: serving developmentally delayed children
LITERACY
CHI L DR E N A R E R EACHI N G E XCE LL ENCE W I T H S U P PORT ( C A R E S )
Math and reading scores in
Kindergarten and 1st Grade improved.
200
150
100
50
0
MAP MATH
Kindergarten
MAP MATH
1st Grade
MAP READING
Kindergarten
MAP READING
1st Grade
FALL
SPRING
CARES mentoring program targets children
with both academic and behavioral issues.
CARES was awarded with the Governor's 2014 Partnership Excellence
Award by the Mississippi Association of Partners in Education.
IPC PROGRAMS AND READING PROFICIENCY
Participants in 2 IPC programs have a mean
score above the reading proficiency level.
Score of 496 was considered to be proficient.
497.59
MEAN SCORE
492.95
476.47
participants in
0 IPC programs
participants in
1 IPC program
Source: STAR Early Literacy assessment Fall 2014
participants in
2 IPC programs
CLASSWORKS
Classworks is state-of-the-art learning software
that makes a difference, particularly
for the youngest kids.
MAP SCORES PERCENT CHANGE
9.99%
6.71%
5.96%
6.49% 6.62%
5.89% 6.01%
5.25%
4.87%
4.68%
4.09%
MATH
Kindergarten
READING
Kindergarten
MATH
1st Grade
READING
1st Grade
MATH
2nd Grade
Nationally normed
…
4.38%
READING
2nd Grade
Indianola
PERCENT OF THIRD GRADERS LIKELY TO BE HELD BACK
3RD GRADERS SCORING BELOW PROFICIENT
32%
The percent of Indianola 3rd graders
likely to be held back by the new
reading gateway has gone down.
18%
2013
Source: Indianola School District, MCT2 scores Spring 2013
2014
3RD GRADE MCT2 SCORES
3rd Grade MCT2 Scores Improved in
Both Language and Math
AVERAGE 3RD GRADE MCT2 SCORES
160
154
150
148
148
142
140
130
Language
Math
2012-2013
2013-2014
3RD GRADE PROFICIENCY
More 3rd graders are proficient or
advanced in Math and Language this year.
PERCENT OF 3RD GRADERS
PROFICIENT OR ADVANCED
61%
48%
42%
32%
Language
Math
2012-2013
2013-2014
MCT2 SCORES
PERCENT DIFFERENCE IN PROFICIENCY
Schools in Indianola are the only Mississippi
Delta School District to show proficiency gains
in both Language and Math MCT2 scores.
20%
15%
4%
2%
Greenwood
Greenville
Humphreys
Western Line
South Delta
Indianola
-8%
-12%
-15%
-15%
-18%
-22%
-25%
-29%
% 3rd graders moving from below proficient to above proficient in MCT2 scores (2013-2014)
LANGUAGE
MATH
KINDERGARTEN READINESS CHANGE OVER TIME
More children in Indianola are
considered “Kindergarten ready” in 2014.
PERCENT OF CHILDREN CONSIDERED
"KINDERGARTEN READY"
46%
36%
2013*
2014**
*NWEA 2013-2014 Goal Score Translation Chart, **STAR Early Literacy assessment Fall 2014