Kids' Community Clinic of Burbank
The Kid’s Community Dental Clinic is a nationally recognized dental home serving LA County offering free or low cost comprehensive and restorative oral care to vulnerable low income families to fight healthcare inequity. We are excited to receive the Dental Trade Alliance Foundation's grant to further outreach dental services provided to families through community health events that reach underserved populations.

University of Washington School of Dentistry
Tele-Oral Medicine Pilot Project: This project intends to pilot a single tele-oral medicine connection between one Community Health Center of Snohomish County community health clinic and the UWSOD oral medicine department. Based on review of the literature and connections with the other US oral medicine programs through the American Academy of Oral Medicine, we do not know of any tele-health networks that exist regionally or nationally for the provision of oral medicine services. It is expected that further growth of this network can be achieved through the UWSOD’s existing regional partners, including the Regional Initiatives in Dental Education (RIDE) sites and the Service Learning Rotation (SLR) clinic sites throughout Washington State.

Apple Tree Dental
Apple Tree Dental's Mayo Clinic Medical-Dental Integration Project will support the development and testing of integrated care coordination models that promote the prevention and early treatment of oral diseases in a wide variety of targeted patients with both acute and chronic conditions. Policies and routine operating procedures will be developed to exchange clinical data between Apple Tree and the Mayo Clinic, laying a foundation for future electronic health information exchanges.

Children's Dental Services
Children’s Dental Services, a 102-year-old nonprofit, public health, dental clinic serving 37,000 patients annually across Minnesota, received $25,000 from the Dental Trade Alliance Foundation (DTAF) to expand dental services via a portable care program coupled with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) prevention. With these funds from DTAF, care will be established within previously unserved community locations in Central and Northern rural Minnesota, including Itasca County Head Start, Carlton County Head Start, Kanabec County Women Infants and Children (WIC), St. Louis County WIC, and Wilkin County WIC clinics, each home to rural families with no or limited access to affordable, community-based dental services. CDS will utilize its expertise to provide comprehensive preventive and restorative services to these targeted communities. Given the significant number of opioids prescribed in dental offices, CDS will address the opioid epidemic disproportionately impacting rural Minnesota. CDS will engage a clinician and community health worker with opioid prevention expertise to provide OUD prevention education. This clinician will also provide appropriate referrals and integration with OUD treatment and medical services. With this impactful funding from DTAF, CDS will be able to serve over 500 children, pregnant individuals and their families in Central and Northern rural Minnesota, including over 50% of whom will be Native American or recent immigrants and refugees.

The University of Maryland School of Dentistry
With a system-wide commitment to oral health and a newly developed focused educational and training program, we anticipate a renewed interest in personal and professional oral health for residents and staff alike. We anticipate that daily oral health care will become an integral component not only for the residents, but throughout the organization. Through our partnership between Target CES and University of Maryland School of Dentistry in Baltimore and the new campus in Shady Grove, new opportunities for the residents to be exposed to oral health care will occur as well as opportunities for the students in the dental hygiene programs to increase their oral health exposure to people with IDD, but also to encourage new projects that will align with the goals of this project. Since the training will occur throughout the organization, we anticipate that direct service personnel, supervisors and administration will take a new look at their own oral health and possibly modify their behaviors and care strategies. We will be able to assess behavior change based on our pre and post test as well as through our regular interaction with them.