The Multicultural Health Institute (MHI) seeks to level the healthcare playing field by promoting, educating, and ensuring equal healthcare access and treatment for individuals and communities who are traditionally uninsured and receive a poor quality of care. We support programs that educate, identify, and test for diseases such as Cancer, Diabetes, Obesity, Stroke, Cardiovascular Disease, Infant Mortality, HIV/AIDS, and other health issues affecting under-represented communities across the United States which also help reduce the costs of healthcare. 

For Up-to-date, accurate COVID-19 information and resources available such as testing sites, food resources, meds, how to get masks, etc. please visit the Sarasota Community Action COVID dashboard

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We would like to invite you to take the Johns Hopkins Contact Tracing Course online. You can start this free course whenever you want to and continue at your own pace and availability.

In this introductory course, students will learn about the science of SARS-CoV-2 , including the infectious period, the clinical presentation of COVID-19, and the evidence for how SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted from person-to-person and why contact tracing can be such an effective public health intervention.

Listen to Ringling educator, Laura Steefel-Moore, and Dr. Lisa Merritt talk about racial disparities in our communities in this Art Chat!

August Health & Holiday Observances

• National Immunization Awareness Month

• World Breastfeeding Week -- August 1st to August 7th

National Museum of African American History

The National Museum of African American History and Culture has released a free online portal about race​.

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The online portal provides digital tools, online exercises, video instructions, scholarly articles and more than 100 multi-media resources tailored for educators, parents and caregivers—and individuals committed to racial equality.  

A rash of racially charged incidents—from an altercation in Central Park to acts of police brutality resulting in the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd and the protests they provoked in cities around the country—prompted the Museum to move up the release date of Talking About Race. By releasing the new portal today, the Museum aims to help individuals and communities foster constructive discussions on one of the nation’s most challenging topics:  racism, and its corrosive impact.

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To learn more about this online portal, click here

To access this online portal, click here

Newtown CHAT Meeting

• Every 4th Tuesday

• Robert L. Taylor Community Center.

• Next Meeting: TBA

Quit Your Way (Free Nicotine Patches)

Orange Blossom Garden

First Saturday

Next Gathering: TBA

Amaryllis Park  Neighborhood Association Meeting

• Every 4th Thursday

• MHI Community Room

• Next Meeting: TBA

Cancer Survival Tips

Cancer Stakeholder:

• A collaboration between Florida Department of Health and Comprehensive Cancer Control Program shares tips for surviving cancer.

• Every 3rd Tuesday

• North Sarasota Library.

• Next Meeting: TBA