- April 25, 2024
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Shay Waters-Sykes, Natalia Cavaliers and Mara Cunha
Kerri Deatherage, Ciera Coleman and and Amy Fulton
Samantha Kinley, Shon Ewens and Megan Wenger
Claudia Cleary and Sid Friedman
Maggie Davenport with her Grid of Giving tiles.
Kathy Gilkey, Stefany Holmes and Ganda Gilkey
Renee Marietta, Marry O'Conner, Judy Cavallaro and Carolyn Ramirez
Dr. Washington Hill and Clara Kopel
Tony Napolitano with the event's keynote speaker Dr. Prabhu Parimi.
Students from Stage Door Preschool of the Arts perform for the event's guests.
Students from Stage Door Preschool of the Arts perform for the event's guests.
Students from Stage Door Preschool of the Arts perform for the event's guests.
The Healthy Start Coalition of Sarasota County held its highest-attended annual Giving Sarasota a Healthy Start Luncheon on April 26 at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall. The event raised money for Healthy Start’s programs that aim to improve the health and well-being of pregnant women, infants and young children.
Dr. Prabhu Parimi, director of the Maternal, Fetal and Neonatal Institute at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, was the keynote speaker. He is a specialist on the impact of mothers’ drug use on their newborn babies.
“Dr. Parimi is such a talented man,” said Shon Ewens, executive director of Healthy Start Coalition of Sarasota County. “With the opioid epidemic and all of the substance abuse exposed to newborns, this is a perfect opportunity to make our community aware that there is a problem here in sunny Sarasota. We have moms in severe need.”
