Description | The goals of the Dental Community Partnership Program are to increase access to oral health care for patients with HIV in areas that remain underserved, especially in communities without dental education programs, and to increase the number of dental providers capable of managing the oral health needs of patients with HIV, through community-based service-learning experiences. Eligible applicants must work collaboratively with community-based dental providers (such as community-based organizations or agencies that currently provide or plan to provide oral health services, or private practice dental providers) to address unmet oral health needs of vulnerable populations with HIV. The documentation of unmet HIV oral health needs or underserved HIV positive populations will be based upon data submitted within the application that describes need as presented by Planning Council Needs Assessments, local and CDC epidemiologic data, availability of current HIV health care including oral health services, and description of proposed target population and community. |
Eligible Entity(ies) | Accredited dental schools, postdoctoral dental education programs, dental hygiene education programs Applicants are limited to accredited dental schools, postdoctoral dental education programs, and dental hygiene education programs that are currently funded Community Based Dental Partnership Programs whose project periods expire August 31, 2008 and new applicants proposing to serve the same communities being serviced by these existing projects. All new applicants must also be accredited dental schools, postdoctoral dental education programs, or dental hygiene education programs. The communities currently served are:Arizona: Pima County California: Riverside and San Bernardino Counties Colorado: Metropolitan Denver, Grand Junction, Pueblo and Southeastern area Illinois:Chicago, Cook Kentucky: Jefferson County, KIPDA District, North Central KY, Hardin County Louisiana: Allen, Avoyelles, Cataoula, Concordia, Grant, LaSalle, Rapides, Vernon, and Winn parishes of Central Louisiana. Massachusetts: Hampden County, MA Mississippi: Statewide New York:Harlem and South Bronx in New York City New York: Upstate New York New Jersey: Atlantic,Cape May, Cumberland, Camden, Salem, Burlington, Gloucester Counties Oregon: Multnomah County |
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