Who are the New Mainers Public Health Initiative?

Get to know NMPHI… Who are New Mainers Public Health Initiative (NMPHI)? NMPHI are made up of few students in the local colleges and universities who wanted to give back to their community. These ambitious students created MIPHI to promote health issues and...

Leaders: Empowerment key to overcoming racism

April 27, 2019From the Lewiston Sun Journal LEWISTON, Maine–The executive director of the Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition gave the keynote address Saturday at the YWCA event, “Immigrant Justice is Racial Justice: No Hate. No Fear.”… [continue reading on...

NH-ME LEND Spotlight (Jan. 2019)

Jan. 22, 2019From the NH-ME LEND Spotlight and the University of New Hampshire NH-Maine LEND has developed a partnership with the New Mainers Public Health Initiative (NMPHI), a public health and social service agency, headquartered in Lewiston, Maine, that serves New...

MaineCF’s People of Color Fund awards grants

July 31, 2018From the United South and Eastern Tribes …New Mainers Public Health Initiative, to conduct 24 workshops about health, wellness, and nutrition for men and women and engage participants in capacity building to improve understanding, learning, and...

Lead poisoning hits new Mainers hard

April 5, 2017From the Lewiston Sun-Journal LEWISTON, Maine–The New Mainers Public Health Initiative, a Lewiston nonprofit created in 2014 to help immigrants and refugees with health issues, has encountered child after child damaged by lead poisoning. No firm numbers...