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Join us for the 2008 Annual Conference in Burns, TN. Click here for more information on registration and workshops. Click here for the full brochure.

The 2008 House Concert Series is under way! This year we will feature performances from John Mock and Conni Ellisor, Danny Flowers and Bill Lloyd, Gary Nicholson and Jonell Mosser, and Marshall Chapman and Tommy Womack. Click here for more details.

Tonya Elkins became MIHOW Director in May of 2007. Before becoming director, she was site leader for the MIHOW program in Nashville for 4 years. She’s very excited to be part of such a great organization and looks forward to helping the program increase in size and quality services. Click here to learn more about our new director.


The Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker (MIHOW) Program has a powerful yet practical mission — to stimulate the birth and growth of low-cost, parent-to-parent interventions that improve health and child development for low-income families.

In the communities of the South lies a treasure of underutilized resources: the people. Despite severe financial hardships and neglect by mainstream America, the people remain optimistic and hopeful about the future.

mother & childIt is these people, the workers, the parents, the children, who are the heart of MIHOW.


View the video, Reaching Across the South: An Introduction to the Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker (MIHOW) Program.
This will require a Real One Player (download free version here).

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