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2016-2019, Cohort 1

Building a Dental Home Network for Children with Special Health Care Needs

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The goal of this project is to improve access to and utilization of a dental home by children with special health care needs in Minnesota by:

  • Increasing local providers’ knowledge and comfort in working with children with SHCNs
  • Improving the ability of the telementoring network to support establishment and maintenance of a patient and family centered dental home
  • Increasing network capacity for providing a dental home for all children with SHCNs in Minnesota
Project Details

Team Members
  • Peter Scal, MD, MPH
  • Mark DeRuiter, MBA, PhD, CCC-A/SLP
  • Jeffrey Karp, DMD, MS

LocationMinneapolis, Minnesota

Focus Areas
  • Health Care Access
  • Oral Health
Community Impact
  • A Tale of Two States: Access to Oral Health Care
  • Leading Community Based Changes in the Culture of Health in the US
  • Power of experiences
  • Toolkit for Dental Home for Children with Special Health Care Needs
Resources
  • Getting Dental Care Can Be A Challenge For People With Disabilities

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  • Cohort 1: 2016-2019
  • Cohort 2: 2017-2020
  • Cohort 3: 2018-2021
  • Cohort 4: 2019-2022
  • Cohort 5: 2020-2023

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

SUPPORTED BY

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Support for this program ended October 31, 2023

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