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The State of the State Oral Health Plan. Minnesota Oral Health Plan Report of the Workgroup Chairs. Why have a plan?. A state plan gives Minnesota the ability to: Provide a blueprint for action Maximize resources and recognize opportunities as they arise
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The State of the State Oral Health Plan Minnesota Oral Health Plan Report of the Workgroup Chairs
Why have a plan? • A state plan gives Minnesota the ability to: • Provide a blueprint for action • Maximize resources and recognize opportunities as they arise • Increase collaboration, information sharing, and partnerships
Planning Process • Oral Health Summit 2009 Workgroup sign-up • Three Oral Health Plan Topic groups formed • Oral Health vision themes developed
Where do we go from here? How do we use the plan? Future The Plan Workgroup Chairs Summit 2009
Workgroups • Ninety individuals volunteered as workgroup members • Volunteer workgroup members represented the diversity found in many Minnesota communities, health care systems, education at all levels, the public, providers, and government • Workgroups and workgroup chairs developed the goals, objectives, and strategies with help from the Oral Health Staff
Workgroup Chairs • Three Workgroups: • Prevention, Public Education, and Awareness • Amos Deinard • Sharon Oswald • Access to Care • Rebecca Fahning • Daniel Rose • Workforce Development • David Gesko • David Born
Prevention and Education Workgroup • Strengthening prevention measures, mitigating existing oral disease, and establishing optimal oral health for all Minnesotans • Educate the public and medical and dental professionals about oral health as an essential component of optimal general health
Access to Care Workgroup • Create a coordinated strategy to link people to needed oral health services • Assure availability and acceptability of services by enhancing system capacity • Encourage efficient evidence-based utilization of resources by reducing barriers • Identify existing programs that are successful
Workforce Workgroup • Assure an adequate, equitably distributed, and competent oral health workforce that can appropriately adapt to and meet the oral health needs of all
Workgroup Chairs Role • Communicate with work group members and other stakeholders • Provide feedback on drafts of plan • Conduct meetings of each work group • Based on input from Summit and Workgroup meetings: • Draft goals • Confirm goals • Draft objectives • Review and revise draft strategies • Present the Oral Health Plan at 2011 Summit
The Plan • Has the capacity to adapt to the ever-changing environment for health in Minnesota • Timeline and process for periodic review, course correction and evaluation • A public affirmation and statement of specific objectives related to oral health promotion, disease prevention and control, and specific risk factors
State Oral Health Plan Goals • The Plan contains seven goals, which are written as outcome statements • The Goals are statements of the desired future state that we will achieve through implementation of the objectives and strategies
State Oral Health Plan Objectives • The objectives are specific to the goal • The objectives are measurable • The objectives are achievable • The objectives are feasible with appropriate resources • Each objective is actionable within the time frame of the Plan
2011 2013 2015 2018 2020Interim report Mid-course review Interim report Time line will follow Healthy People 2020 How will the plan be updated? • Periodic review, course correction and evaluation
Future • Use the plan to • Develop action plans • Identify • resources • lead organizations • individuals will serve to provide guidance for the next steps.
Transition to Minnesota Oral Health Coalition • Combine ideas, experience, and expertise • Implement the objectives of the Plan. • Create partnerships with stakeholders
Transition from developing to implementing MN Oral Health Plan Optimal Oral Health for All Minnesotans Coalition Summit Work groups Steering committee Oral health plan • Access to care • Prevention, education and awareness • Workforce development Committee Committee Committee Planning phase Work Group chairs Oral Health Plan development Implementation phase Think tank / steering committee Implementation
Access to the plan View and download the Plan from the Oral Health Unit website • http://www.health.state.mn.us/oralhealth/oralhealthplan.html