Dr. Betty Shabazz Delta Academy 

The Delta Academy was created out of an urgent sense that bold action was needed to save our young females (ages 11-14) from the perils of academic failure, low self-esteem, and crippled futures. Delta Academy provides an opportunity for local Delta chapters to enrich and enhance the education that our young teens receive in public schools across the nation. Specifically, we augment their scholarship in math, science, and technology, their opportunities to provide service in the form of leadership through service learning, and their sisterhood, defined as the cultivation service learning, and their sisterhood, defined as the cultivation and maintenance of relationships. A primary goal of the program is to prepare young girls for full participation as leaders in the 21st Century.

Delta GEMS (Growing and Empowering Myself Successfully)

A natural outgrowth and expansion for the continuation of the highly successful Dr. Betty Shabaaz Delta Academy: Catching the Dreams of Tomorrow, Delta Gems was created to catch the dreams of African American at-risk, adolescent girls aged 14-18. Delta GEMS provides the frame work to actualize those dreams through the performance of specific tasks that develop a CAN DO attitude.

The goals for Delta GEMS are:

1. • To instill the need to excel academically;
2. • To provide tools that enable girls to sharpen and enhance their skills to achieve high levels of academic success;
3. • To assist girls in proper goal setting and planning for their futures high school and beyond; and
4. • To create compassionate, caring, and community minded young women by actively involving them in service learning and community service opportunities.

The Delta GEMS program offers a road map for college and career plannning through activities that provide opportunities for self-reflection and individual gorwth. Delta GEMS, like Delta Academy is implmented by chapters of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incoporated. Delta GEMS participants have the opporutity to define and "Discover their individual Brilliance." 

Jabberwock

In an interpretation of the immortal classic "Alice in Wonderland," Lewis Carroll created the delightful character known as "Jabberwock" who summoned all of the creatures in the kingdom to perform a gala event. Being mindful of this concept, Delta member Marian G. Conover Hope of Iota Chapter (Boston, Massachusetts) creatively recalled this mystical character, but in a dramatically different manner, when faced with the challenge of devising plans for a fundraising project. Conceptualized in 1925 as a musical variety show that consisted of skits and dances, the Jabberwock has since evolved into a more diverse program that continues to raise funds for scholarships and other Delta sponsored public service projects. The word Jabberwock, copyrighted by Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., has evolved in its symbolism over the past eighty years.

JABBERWOCK PAGEANT, MAY 23, 2015, RUST COLLEGE AUDITORIUM

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Annual Mothers, Daughters, and Sisters Brunch

Annual Brunch presenting the five point programmatic thrust program to the community. This program also honors women that have made public service contributions to the community in various ways, reflecting the sorority's five point programmatic thrust.  

I AM Conference

The "I AM" conference also known as I Advance Myself. Is an invitational conference held in the Fall each year for students in grades 9-12, as well as their parents. The goal of this conference is to encourage students to make educational and employment plans for the future that will assist in sustainable activities that will contribute directly to the development of realistic and operational long term plans for education and self-improvement.

Read Across America

Held in March of each year, sorors gather at varous schools in the community and read to the students. This helps to motivate children and teaches them the importance of reading.