NMPHI focuses on identifying and addressing health inequities. Working with its’ community to bridge the gap between the people and the healthcare providers to minimize health disparities and inequality. In order to improve the health of the population we serve, another aspect of NMPHI’s goal is to encourage healthy behaviors and alter the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of those we serve. NMPHI advocates for the marginalized community to build stronger and healthier members of the community.

The vision of NMPHI is to create awareness of health, through health literacy, and health promotion. By creating community health workers programs through activity and advocacy to access a healthy environment, healthy eating habits, and access to health care without barriers of language, race, or ethnicity.

NMPHI serves as the leading health related, ethnic-based organization directly serving the needs of the immigrant and refugee youth and their families.

New Mainers Public Health Initiative began at the initiation of a few students in the local college and university who decided to “give back” to their community by promoting healthy habits and changing attitudes, beliefs, and behavior. These ambitious students created NMPHI to promote an effective response to health issues that the community is suffering from silently. By teaching new ways to buy, store, prepare, and consume food and building up an appreciation of disease management and control, NMPHI works closely within the community to em-power people to take control of their healthcare by seeking out better health habits, becoming educated about understanding medical diagnoses and treatment plans, and by becoming informed about primary or secondary prevention.

As a member of the community we have strong relationship with our community and can be a buffering agent to providers as well. Our organization actively works with other agencies who work with New Mainers in the L/A area. NMPHI members participate in the New Mainers Community Collaborative meetings.