Community-Based Dental Partnership Program Grantees

Program Description
Grantees
Technical Assistance and Training
Resources

Program Description

The Community-Based Dental Partnership Program of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), HIV/AIDS Bureau funds eligible dental schools, postdoctoral dental education programs, and dental hygiene programs to increase access to oral health care for unserved and underserved rural and urban HIV-positive populations. The goal of this program is to address unmet oral health care needs for unserved HIV positive populations, and to train new generations of dental providers who are prepared to manage the oral health care of people with HIV. Grant applicants were encouraged to develop creative multi-partner community-based collaborations that balance power and share resources among partners and develop innovative curriculum design, quality improvement programs, and program assessment methods that involve the partner programs' staff and patients in every facet of the project.

Community-Based Dental Partnership Program Grantees - Alphabetical by State

Click here for abstracts of grantee programs.

Arizona
Kino Community Hospital
Main contact: Wanda Wong, wwong@exchange.co.pima.az.us

California
Loma Linda University School of Dentistry
Main contact: Dr. Thomas Rogers, trogers@sd.llu.edu

Colorado
University of Colorado School of Dentistry
Main contact: Dr. Robert Trombly, Robert.Trombly@UCHSC.edu

Illinois
University of Illinois, Chicago College of Dentistry
Main contact: Dr. Larry Salzmann, lbs@uic.edu

Kentucky
University of Louisville School of Dentistry
Main contact: Dr. Theresa Mayfield, theresa.mayfield@louisville.edu

Louisiana
Louisiana State University School of Dentistry
Main contact: Dr. Janet Leigh, jleigh@Isuhsc.edu

Massachusetts
Tufts University School of Dental Medicine
Main contact: Dr. Stanton Wolfe, Stanton.Wolfe@tufts.edu

Mississippi
University of Mississippi School of Dentistry
Main contact: Dr. George Taybos, gtaybos@sod.umsmed.edu

New Jersey
University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey/New Jersey Dental School
Main contact: Dr. Andrew Youngblood, youngbam@hotmail.com

New York
Albany Medical College-Dental Program
Main contact: Dr. David Drohan, drohand@mail.amc.edu

Columbia University School of Dental & Oral Surgery
Main contact: Dr. Burton Edelstein, ble22@columbia.edu

Oregon
Oregon Health Sciences University, School of Dentistry
Main contact: Dr. David Rosenstein, rosenste@ohsu.ed

Technical Assistance and Training

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) is working with the Community-Based Dental Partnership program grantees and partners to assess and respond to their training and technical assistance needs. In November 2003, CCPH prepared a Technical Assistance Report based on telephone interviews conducted with principal investigators, staff and partners. In March 2004, grantees participated in a conference call to discuss the report, their successes and challenges, and suggestions for future conference calls and in-person meetings. Click here for an edited transcript of the conference call discussion.

The grantees gathered in August 2004 for the Ryan White CARE Act Grantee Conference in Washington, DC, which included several sessions focused on oral health. Click here for more information about these sessions.

The grantees gathered for a one-day meeting in August 2006 in Washington DC, timed to coincide with the Ryan White CARE Action Grantee meeting. The meeting was facilitated by Karen Yoder, CCPH Consultant and Director of the Division of Community Dentistry in the Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry at Indiana University School of Dentistry. Click here for meeting notes.

Resources

Report on Community-Based Dental Partnership Program! CCPH assisted the Health Resources and Services Administration's HIV/AIDS Bureau in writing this report which highlights the accomplishments of the program's 12 grantees. The report demonstrates how dental students, dental hygiene students and dental residents in service-learning partnerships provide community-based oral health care to people living with HIV/AIDS. To read the report, click here.

Oral Health

Click here for other oral health resources on the CCPH website.

Partnership Resources

Community-campus partnerships involve communities and higher educational institutions as partners, and may address such areas as health professions education (i.e., through service-learning), health care delivery, research (i.e., through community-based participatory research), community service, community-wide health improvement (i.e., through Healthy Communities initiatives), and community/economic development. Click here to view resources on the CCPH website

For more information, contact contact CCPH at info@ccph.info, or visit www.ccph.info

Service-Learning Resources

Service-Learning in Dental/Dental Hygiene, click here for workshop handouts and course syllabi examples.

CCPH Service-Learning Institutes, click here for more information on these technical assistance/training opportunities that include national experts in service-learning, health professions faculty who have incorporated community service into their courses and community leaders who have developed service-learning partnerships with health professions schools.

Service-Learning tools and resources, click here to view materials on the CCPH website.