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Mississippi Moms to Deliver Giant Thank You to Hattiesburg Mayor and County Council Members for their Dedication to Children’s Health

July 20, 2015

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

Members of MomsRising.org– an online and on-the-ground organization for moms and everyone who has a mom – will present an enormous "thank you" card, signed by hundreds of moms from around the state, to Hattiesburg Mayor Johnny DuPree and City Council Members Kim Bradley, Deborah Delgado, Carter Carroll, Mary Dryden and Henry Naylor, to thank them for their dedication to children’s health:
 
10:30am, Saturday, July 25
Hattiesburg Zoo 
107 South 17th Avenue
Hattiesburg, MS
 
DuPree andthe council members are leading Hattiesburg’s launch of the E³ Health Initiative, which enrolls eligible children and families in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). There are roughly 6,000 eligible, but uninsured children and families in Hattiesburg’s Lillie Burney, Rowan, and Hawkins Elementary school zones alone and E³ aims to reduce that number by 50%. As of May 2015, there has been a 76.2% growth in Medicaid enrollment in the 39401 areas alone.
 
The Mayor and the City Council members are expected to accept the card in person at the Hattiesburg Zoo. It will be delivered by local MomsRising members and their children, and experts on CHIP and children’s health.
 
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MEDIA NOTE: Media are welcome to attend the event and interview participants. For more information or to schedule interviews, please contact Gretchen Wright or Kim Hayes, (202) 371-1999.
 

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.