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| | IMPROVING PERINATAL AND INFANT ORAL HEALTH | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | PROMOTING STATE ORAL HEALTH POLICIES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | AWESOME SMILES | | | Project Description | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | INTERFACES | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FILLING GAPS | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) and the Children's Dental Health Project (CDHP) are collaborating on a five-year adolescent oral health project, Awesome Smiles. Funded through a grant from HRSA/Maternal and Child Health Bureau , the project is part of a larger initiative entitled "Partners in Program Planning for Adolescent Health" (PIPPAH). Other grantees contributing to the national PIPPAH Partnership include the American Bar Association, American Medical Association, American Nurses Association, American School Health Association, National Association of Social Workers, American Dietetic Association, and the American College of Preventive Medicine.
As the dental component of the PIPPAH Partnership, Awesome Smiles has four goals.
- Goal I: Promote awareness, information, and programming on adolescent oral health and positive
youth development across a spectrum of dental organizations.
- Goal II: Actively integrate oral health in the work of other professional groups that address the needs of adolescents.
- Goal III: Reduce oral health and dental care disparities among adolescents.
- Goal IV:Collaborate with MCHB Office of Adolescent Health to promote its missions.
In addition, CDHP and AAPD will develop a knowledge base on all aspects of adolescent issues related to dentistry including:
- behaviors and use of services;
- care systems and financing of care;
- effectiveness of public programs that target teens; and
- how oral health impacts teens' general health, social development, and personal well-being;
as well as identify strategies to promote consideration of adolescents within the oral health community. This knowledge base will also be used to develop adolescent oral health messages that will be disseminated to the public through the AAPD Foundation's public education campaign Good Health Starts Here. For more information on the campaign, contact Robert A. Vitas, PhD, CFRE, AAPD Foundation Director, at (312) 337-2169 or rvitas@aapd.org.
The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
(AAPD) is the recipient of the HRSA/MCHB grant, with the Children's Dental Health Project providing the administrative and managerial support. The AAPD is the membership organization representing the specialty of pediatric dentistry. Our 5500 members serve as primary care and specialty providers for millions of children from infancy through adolescence; provide advanced, specialty-level care for infants, children, adolescents, and patients with special health care needs in private offices, clinics, and hospital settings; and are the primary contributors to professional education programs and scholarly works concerning dental care for children. The AAPD also recently completed a merger with the American Society of Dentistry for Children. As the remaining organization from this merger, the AAPD now speaks not only for the nation's pediatric dentists, but also for general dentists who treat significant numbers of children in their practices. The Children's Dental Health Project is a separately incorporated Washington, DC-based child health policy and technical assistance center. For more information on Awesome Smiles, contact CDHP at (202) 833-8288 or via email: Awesome Smiles.
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