Hosea Helps Hosts “Health & Jobs First” To Serve Hundreds in ATL

Delta Air Lines and Hosea Helps Inc. teamed up with UnitedHealthcare and Grady to maneuver Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy from phrases to work, delivering actual, life-changing assets to the neighborhood.

In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the one hundredth birthday of the late Rev. Hosea Williams, Delta Air Lines and Hosea Helps Inc., alongside neighborhood companions UnitedHealthcare and Grady Health System, remodeled service into motion with Health & Jobs First, a free cellular wellness and profession help occasion for Atlanta households.

Held Monday, Jan. 19, 2026, at Hosea Helps headquarters, the annual MLK Day activation delivered vital well being screenings, employment readiness assets, household help companies, and sizzling meals to a whole bunch of residents.

Timed to honor Hosea Williams’ century-spanning legacy of direct service, the occasion mirrored the inspiration’s longstanding mission of “assembly individuals the place they’re”, particularly when well being and financial stability really feel out of attain.

“Health & Jobs First is greater than an occasion, it’s an funding in individuals,” stated Landis Rush, National Vice President, Public Sector, Labor and Trust at UnitedHealthcare Employer and Individual.

“By becoming a member of forces with Grady and Hosea Helps, we’re assembly communities the place they’re and providing the instruments, assets, and help wanted to thrive. Our mission is to assist individuals reside more healthy lives, and when people have entry to high quality care and actual job alternatives, households and complete communities develop stronger.”

Designed as a one-stop useful resource hub, Health & Jobs First supplied free medical screenings offered by Grady Health System, together with mammograms, HIV testing, ldl cholesterol checks, blood strain screenings and glucose testing.

Families additionally obtained help with employment screenings, advantages enrollment and renewal for SNAP, TANF, WIC, CAPS and Medicare, in addition to lease, utility and emergency housing screenings.

Raffles, Groceries, And Hot Meals On Deck

To make sure the expertise prolonged past companies, organizers made the day family-friendly, providing free haircuts and hair braiding, faculty provides, bounce homes, face portray, and video games.

Attendees obtained recent produce containers, family-size grocery containers, and bottled water, whereas raffles all through the day featured prizes together with Sony PlayStations, new laptops, and $50 Visa and Walmart present playing cards.

Food was out there all through the day, with the primary 100 households receiving particular meals from Big Daddy’s Restaurant and sizzling meals persevering with for the remaining attendees.

“This Is What Hosea Williams Did With His Life”

During the occasion, Dr. Elisabeth Omilami emphasised that the activation displays Hosea Helps’ ongoing mission to serve constantly, not simply seasonally.

“Hosea Helps, which is worldwide 12 months spherical group has partnered with United Healthcare and Grady Hospital, Grady companies to have the ability to convey individuals right into a neighborhood that’s secure and resourceful,” Dr. Omilami advised BOSSIP.

She particularly highlighted the medical assets out there, together with screenings that present fast outcomes.

“The assets embody cellular mammogram items, and that is essential, even for ladies age 35 they’ve blood screenings, glucose, HIV, all these medical screenings that you just get the end result straight away,” she stated.

Dr. Omilami stated the companies are important for households dealing with rising prices and restricted entry to care.

“This is so needed for the households that don’t even have cash for his or her meals, they don’t even have cash to pay their rents, as the owner’s going up on the lease,” she stated.

“They don’t have cash to purchase goat faculty garments for his or her children. So you recognize, well being is the very last thing they consider. But in the present day, at Hosea well being, we’re offering the companies that can assist them perceive their our bodies and assist them perceive who they should comply with up with because of Grady well being programs and United Healthcare, we’re right here.”

Dr. Omilami additionally tied the second again to the inspiration’s roots and the instance Hosea Williams set in Atlanta.

“But that is what Hosea Williams did together with his life,” she famous to BOSSIP. “He used to pay individuals’s lease in order that they wouldn’t get evicted. He was all the time giving cash to feed any person. He fed the primary 100 males on the Wheat Street Baptist Church in 1970.”

A Survivor’s Reminder That Health Can Not Wait

Dr. Omilami additionally shared a private cause she believes entry to free screenings issues, particularly for ladies.

“Well, you recognize, I’m, I’m a survivor of breast most cancers, and if I had gotten the mammograms on time, I might have recognized that,” she stated. “So I need to inform no matter lady that’s right here that they’ll get a free mammogram on the mammogram.”

She continued by stressing that well being is the inspiration for every little thing else.

“Even if you happen to’re a billionaire and also you don’t have your well being, what does it serve you?”

Atlanta resident Geneva Peters attended the occasion along with her nieces, grandchildren, sister and nephew after studying about it via a Hosea Helps e mail alert.

“It was a superb expertise,” she advised BOSSIP. “The children realized some MLK historical past, obtained actions, meals containers, hair braiding. There is a number of assist on the market. You simply need to faucet in.”

Peters added that the expertise was significant for each the children and adults in her household.

“Well, in the present day, it was a superb expertise. We obtained just a little historical past on MLK. My grandkids obtained to be taught some extra historical past that they didn’t know. We obtained actions and we had meals containers on the finish,” she stated. “Some of the children obtained their hair braided and features and stuff.”

When requested what she would inform somebody who could really feel nervous about asking for assist, Peters inspired individuals to hunt out assets by staying linked and subscribed.

“Well, I might say that in Atlanta, I’ve observed that there’s a number of assist on the market,” she stated. “You can go on the native  information web site. You can go on Eventbrite, or the Mayor’s web site. It’s a number of assist on the market and also you simply need to subscribe, put your cellphone quantity on the market and also you simply obtained to get on the market as a result of they do have a number of assist.”

“Get Up Off Your Butt And Do Something”

For Omilami, that decision to motion is the true that means of MLK Day.

“What good are Martin Luther King successors doing if we don’t comply with up with service to one another?” Dr. Omilami requested rhetorically.

“His principal message was love. So in our communities, as we educate our kids, we have to allow them to know that Martin Luther King was not only a civil rights chief, which is what they’re taught. He was a person of affection. He was a person of sacrifice. He was a person of technique and ways that they used in the course of the motion and Hosea helps exist in the present day as a result of we’re standing on their shoulders.”

She added that for these questioning tips on how to assist, Hosea Williams would have had a straight-to-the-point message.

“If Hosea have been alive he would say ‘Get up off your butt and do one thing! There’s all the time a spot so that you can assist,’” Dr. Omilami stated.

Community companions supporting Health & Jobs First included Delta Air Lines, UnitedHealthcare, Grady Health System, V-103, Big Daddy’s Restaurant, Healthcare Resources Staffing, and Insights Marketing, reinforcing a shared dedication to well being fairness, financial alternative, and dignity-driven service.

For these all for volunteering or supporting Hosea Helps’ year-round efforts, further data is accessible via the group’s neighborhood service portal at 4hosea.org/qr/community.