How one project led many partners with different goals to work together.

1. How one project led many partners with different goals to work together. A Free Dental Sealant Clinic Day at an educational institution

2. Project themes Process Relationships Collaboration

3. This was the scene of the opportunity

4. Can Public Health help find the right population that needs preventative oral health care?

5. Why is there still a population of children who don’t receive oral health care that prevents tooth decay?

6. Goals Public Health Goals: • Influence better oral health outcomes for youth in need • Increase government/public awareness • Collect data to support healthy public policy Institution goals: • Meet accreditation needs • Find patients for Dental sealants clinic

7. The Journey/ Our Role

8. Strategic Planning • Critical process • Awareness • sustainable • capacity building • partner’s role and expectations .

9. Partners TWELVE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

10. Action Plan: Pre-clinic Identifying participating schools Communication Level of Literacy Ethics and Legal Consentsssssssssssssss Transportation Chaperons

11. Implementation phase 1st year : Pre-screening 2nd year: No pre-screening.

13. The end result is not the only output What happens along the way generates important information

14. Clinic Outcome 2012: 7 youths received dental sealants 2013: close to 40 youth receiving dental sealants *Lots of tooth decay identified

15. Evaluation • Working on it

16. Thank You!

17. Have you ever been asked to help a partner with THEIR project?How did that look?

18. Have you worked with partners on the same project when you had different goals? How did that work?

19. How did our example of partnership resonate with you?What did it make you think of?

20. Have you worked on a project that had a goal but no existing program to reach that goal. How did that look?

21. Celebration?