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The purpose of this grant is to support Community Catalyst to continue federal and state advocacy for comprehensive health coverage, inclusive of oral health, that is centered on the needs and perspectives of community, as well as provide technical assistance and training around equity-driven community engagement in service of oral health systems change.

The purpose of this grant is for the Hispanic Dental Association to inform evidence-based policy decisions and support Hispanic dental providers as equity driven advocates for oral health.

The purpose of this grant is to grow and reinforce the infrastructure that ensures community voices and equity are at the center of oral health policymaking and to position oral health coverage as a prominent policy issue heading into the 2023 election season.

The purpose of this grant is to support Families USA to 1) Grow and reinforce the strategic infrastructure that ensures community voices and equity are at the center of oral health policymaking; 2) Position oral health coverage as a prominent policy issue heading into the 2024 election season; 3) Prepare for the various alternative legislative and administrative scenarios that may arise in 2025 at the federal and state level.

The purpose of this grant to support the National Rural Health Association in their work to improve rural oral health equity through the continuation of the National Rural Oral Health Initiative and its key pillars of advocacy, communications, education, and research.

The purpose of this grant is to support Community Catalyst to continue federal and state advocacy for comprehensive health coverage, inclusive of oral health, as well as provide technical assistance and training around equity-driven community engagement in service of oral health systems change.

The purpose of this grant is to support The American Institute of Dental Public Health (AIDPH) use data-driven advocacy to improve veteran oral health through the development of federal policy priorities and to build the capacity of the oral health workforce for community engagement.

The purpose of this grant is to support the Hawaii Public Health Institute (HPHI) and the Hawaii Oral Health Coalition to explore new policy options for expanding functions among existing dental workforce, conduct a community oral health needs assessment, and improve oral healthcare prevention and access for Hawaii children.

The purpose of this grant is to support medical-dental integration pilots, led the University of Maryland School of Dentistry, that respond to the expressed needs of prenatal and post-partum people in Maryland as well as the state's ongoing workforce shortage.

The purpose of this grant is to support Texas Health Institute in the development of a state level dashboard with population health data that will inform advocacy efforts in the 2025 legislative session. The proposed activities of this grant will also address access gaps for minority populations in Texas by conducting a landscape scan of current efforts, develop a learning collaboration for providers to advance solutions to these gaps, and engage with academic institutions to advance policies to address care gaps.

The purpose of this grant is to support the Missouri Coalition for Oral Health in continuing the design and implementation of a dental alternative payment model (APM) for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) by testing incentivized payments for dental providers. This is the second year of funding of phase two of their current grant with CareQuest Institute, laying the groundwork for future implementation of an APM in Missouri.

The purpose of this grant is to sustain and expand the Partnership for Southern Equity's engagement of youth leaders, adult allies, and community-based organizations to advocate for improve access to equitable and integrated oral health that responds to the unique geographic landscape of the South, beginning with Georgia and North Carolina.

The purpose of this grant is to sustain and expand the Partnership for Southern Equity's engagement of youth leaders, adult allies, and community-based organizations to advocate for improve access to equitable and integrated oral health that responds to the unique geographic landscape of the South, beginning with Georgia and North Carolina.

The purpose of this grant is to support the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy's efforts to increase availability of oral health care to populations with the greatest need through comprehensive changes to health workforce laws, improved Medicaid policies, and a strategic workforce pipeline to meet future needs.

The purpose of this grant is to support American Children's Campaign to carry out an integrated public education and advocacy campaign to authorize and implement dental therapy in Florida.

The Colorado Consumer Health Initiative seeks to advance equitable oral health policy and systems change efforts through advocacy by advancing access to adult dental coverage and care, integrating dental into the state's essential health benefits benchmark, improving access to key services and minimally invasive care for children, and supporting the growth and direction of the new statewide oral health coalition by ensuring all community voices are heard.

The purpose of this grant is to support Florida Voices for Health in their work to support community members and coalition advocacy for a Florida Medicaid adult dental benefit and other policy opportunities that support oral health in Florida.

The purpose of this grant is to support the Connecticut Oral Health Initiative (COHI) to expand its community engagement efforts and continue important oral health advocacy to preserve and expand coverage and access to oral health care for historically marginalized populations throughout the state.

The purpose of this grant is to support Oral Health Kansas in addressing oral health access issues, continued convening of the "Sedation Dental Care Task Force Lived Experience Advisory Group to identify gaps and obstacles in accessing sedation dentistry, and advocating for expanded access to dental services for the Kansas Medicaid population.

The purpose of this grant is for the Arizona Oral Health Coalition (AZOHC), with support from Children's Action Alliance (CAA), to lead legislative and administrative efforts in pursuit of oral health equity by continuing to advocate for a comprehensive adult dental benefit in Arizona's Medicaid program.

The purpose of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine's grant is to inform and engage state legislators as essential stakeholders in oral health policy and to inform OPEN members about state-level oral health policy.

The purpose of this proposal is to continue support of Alabama Arise's work to advocate for expanded Medicaid coverage including educational advocacy efforts around oral health, opportunities to advance teledentistry and medical-dental integration.

The purpose of this grant is to support Asian Resources, Inc. drive systemic changes that improve oral health outcomes for Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders communities by advocating for policy changes, diversifying the oral health workforce, and enhancing the collection and reporting of disaggregated race and ethnicity data.

The purpose of this grant is for Children Now to ensure effective and widespread implementation of policies related to the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) Initiative, specifically the Community Healthcare Worker Benefit, to better serve all 5.6 million children and youth in Medi-Cal.

The purpose of this grant is to support Health Care for All in its efforts to enhance oral health integration and promote teledentistry, protect and defend adult dental Medicaid benefits, advocate for state and federal policies aimed at expanding access to vulnerable populations, and conduct listening sessions with community members and organizations to inform the organization's 2025-2026 oral health legislative agenda.

The purpose of this proposal is to support Heart Ministry Center as they determine their oral health policy and advocacy priorities through trauma-informed story gathering of community members impacted by oral health challenges.

The purpose of the proposed work is to support ITNAmerica to study the relationship between transportation and access to healthcare, focusing on oral health and develop a research design for a cost-effective longitudinal study of the relationship between transportation and access to healthcare.

The purpose of this grant is to support Maryland Dental Action Coalition's expanded Medicaid implementation efforts, which include advocacy and legislation, interprofessional collaboration, and oral health literacy and education, all done in coordination with a diverse statewide network of oral health stakeholders.

The purpose of this grant is to support the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers to expand and pilot a four-part curriculum developed to equip oral health staff within community health center dental clinics with culturally sensitive communication skills to improve patient-providers relationships and care outcomes.

The purpose of this grant is to support the establishment of the Pipeline Dental Champions for Diversity and Mentorship between the Medical University of South Carolina and five historically black colleges and universities to increase the number of admissions to dental school and improve diversity in the oral health workforce.

The purpose of this grant is to support the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board in creating a sustainable, culturally centered oral healthcare workforce that addresses social determinants of health and reduces inequities in American Indian and Alaska Native communities through integrated dental, behavioral, and community health training.

The purpose of this grant is to support the Society of American Indian Dentists (SAID) implement a call to action in their 2023 white paper ("American Indian and Alaska Native Communities Face a 'Disproportionate Burden of Oral Disease'") to "interpret [research] results with Indigenous communities." In partnership with CareQuest Institute's Analytics and Data Insights Team, SAID will take the data from recent research and present in the language and methods appropriate for the unique communities it serves - SAID's membership, Indigenous communities, and policymakers.

The purpose of this grant is to support SCOPE to build grassroots power and mobilize for a community-driven solution to address oral health inequities in BIPOC, rural, and tribal communities in California.

The purpose of this grant is to support the University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine to strengthen the community voices of the American Indian community on Pine Ridge, in South Dakota, through authentic partnership development and test a theoretical framework on perceived discrimination and other dental care-related experiences in the utilization of dental care among adults in this population.

The purpose of this grant is to integrate oral health and overall health through medical/dental collaboration and community input at the University of Texas Health Houston School of Dentistry's Center for Health Promotion to create a care model that will be utilized to influence oral health and healthcare policy.

The purpose of this grant is to support Utah Health Policy Project (UHPP) in the expansion of the Oral Health Consumer Coalition, ensure Utah's newly passed adult dental Medicaid benefit is implemented properly, create broad awareness of program eligibility, and to strengthen oral health coverage and access to UHPP clients who receive direct health care enrollment assistance.

The purpose of this grant is to build a grassroots advocacy base for West Virginians for Affordable Health Care's Medicaid Buy-In Proposal which will protect Medicaid beneficiaries from losing coverage due to modest income increases by providing additional affordable coverage options.

The purpose of this grant to Smiles Across Montana is to develop a pilot program to deploy non-dental professionals as Community Health Care Workers who will provide education, preventive measures, and referrals to the underserved communities identified.

The purpose of this grant is to support Achieva's advocacy efforts to designate people with disabilities as a Medically Underserved Population on a state-wide and national scale, which would increase access to primary, behavioral, and oral healthcare through federal funding opportunities.

The purpose of this grant is to support the Center for Medicare Advocacy's work to expand oral health coverage for Medicare beneficiaries

The purpose of this grant is to support the University of Florida in conducting a comparative study to provide evidence-based data to help authorize dental therapy in Florida. Authorization of dental therapy will improve access to affordable dental care for underserved populations and influence state-level policies for broader integration of dental therapists.

The purpose of this proposal is to support the Alliance for a Healthier Generation in the creation of a community-informed pathway to update the Model Local School Wellness Policy to include oral health, creating increased access to oral health services and early screenings, ultimately reshaping how school districts across the country address oral healthcare.

The purpose of this grant is to support Virginia Health Catalyst to provide guidance and technical assistance to safety net clinics expanding the use of patient-centered, culturally humble care coordination techniques and tools.

The purpose of this grant is to support Dignity Health in the expansion their ICU Oral Care project. This project will embed Registered Dental Hygienists into the Medical and Trauma Intensive CareUnits at Dignity Health Medical Center toprovide oralhealth careto patients with advanced airwaystoreduce the incidence of Infection-Related Ventilator Association Complications (IVAC) and PossibleVentilator-Associated Pneumonia (PVAP).

The purpose of this grant is to support the Medical University of South Carolina to conduct and evaluation of its Dental Pathways for Faculty Campions for Diversity and Mentorship project phase one and develop course materials for the spread of this model to other Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Minority Serving Institutions.

The purpose of this grant is to support Nebraska Appleseed in their efforts to continue collaborating with underserved communities to advance systemic change that improves health and increases equity in their state. Nebraska Appleseed will continue to prioritize growing capacity and voice, deepening oral health advocacy, expanding and strengthening health care partnerships, and improving Medicaid access and processes.

This grant, through the School-Based and School-Linked Initiatives to Improve Oral Health RFP, will support the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in the adaption of their Training, Education, Assistance, Mentorship, and Support (TEAMS) model to improve oral health in schools and development of an oral health micro-module for the AAP Health services Assessment Tool for Schools (HATS).

This grant, through the Community and Care Transformation Request for Proposals, will support Boston Children's Hospital to advance tele-dentistry, value-based care, and medical-dental integration and, in partnership with the Amego School, improve oral health care coordination for patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

This grant, through the School-Based and School-Linked Initiatives to Improve Oral Health RFP, will support Center for Oral Health to harness the success of the Early Smiles Program to advocate for critical policy reforms at local and state levels in California. This initiative seeks to expand and enhance oral health services provided through their school based program, which has demonstrated significant impact in Sacramento, Yolo, Alpine, and Trinity counties (California).

This grant, through the Expanding Access and Equity for Veterans Oral Health RFP, will support Dentistry4Vets to address system-level barriers to oral health for veterans and spotlight their care delivery model that delivers cost-effective, comprehensive dental treatment tailored specifically for veterans

This grant, provided through the Expanding Access and Equity for Veterans Oral Health RFP, will support East Carolina University in its aims to inform policy changes that improve veteransal health by creating a care model that employs multidisciplinary teams to facilitate comprehensive care for veterans with chronic illnesses and disabilities. East Carolina University plans to demonstrate that reduced net costs and improved quality of life for veterans can be achieved by focusing on prevention and early intervention in medical-dental integration.

This grant, through the Expanding Access and Equity for Veterans Oral Health RFP, will support Everyone for Veterans in training dental schools and students on veteran-specific oral care, speaking engagements that focus on the voices of veterans, and advocacy for veteransal health.

This grant, through the School-Based and School-Linked Initiatives to Improve Oral Health RFP, will support EXCELth in the implementation of the Louisiana Smile Krewe School-Linked Initiative with the goal of increasing the number of children utilizing dental services as well as promote widespread use of teledentistry to address barriers to oral health for rural communities.

This grant, through the Expanding Access and Equity for Veterans Oral Health RFP, will support the Family Medicine Education Consortium to work with the academic family medicine system to affect change in how primary care providers approach the oral health care of patients, with a focus on access to appropriate and comprehensive care for veterans.

The purpose of this proposal is to support the efforts of Kentucky Voices for Health as they advocate to prevent the unraveling of Medicaid expansion including expanded dental benefits through the leveraging of community voice.

The purpose of this grant is for the Kentucky Oral Health Coalition, supported by Kentucky Youth Advocates (KYA), to develop regional workgroups to ensure successful implementation of expanded benefits, build on their landscape assessment, and develop an updated policy agenda for the 2025 session.

The purpose of this grant is to support Marshall University to assess the knowledge gaps around veteransal health access and capture veteran perspectives on care in West Virginia to inform statewide and national oral health systems change efforts.

This grant, through the School-Based and School-Linked Initiatives to Improve Oral Health RFP, will support MCD Global Health in the integration of oral health with health, dental, and school partners, and increased access to care for Maine children utilizing school nurses to provide screenings and preventive services.

This grant, through the Expanding Access and Equity for Veterans Oral Health RFP, will support Mercy Foundation to address the oral health needs of local veterans admitted to Mercy Medical Center. The Foundation seeks to increase access to care and connections to care for in hospital patients, advocate for increasing number of veterans eligible for Veterans Dental Program, share best practices via a public awareness campaign, and to create an online hub dedicated to oral health for veterans.

This grant, through the Expanding Access and Equity for Veterans Oral Health RFP, will support the Missouri Coalition for Oral Health (MCOH) in their efforts to gather and apply data-driven and lived experience insights to better understand and address the unmet dental needs of Missouri veterans while elevating the importance of veteran oral health among MCOH members, partners, and stakeholders.

This grant, through the Expanding Access and Equity for Veterans Oral Health RFP, will support the Missouri Office of Dental Health (MODH) in evaluating their current work with A.T. Still University's dental clinic (led by former marine, Dr. Herb Silva), which provides dental care to veterans through the Smiles for Vets program. The goal of the evaluation is to learn why veterans seek dental treatment, how dentists can improve care provided, why dental students want to provide care to veterans and what would encourage them continue to provide care post-graduation.

This grant, through the school-Based and School-Linked Initiatives to Improve Oral Health RFP, will launch the Youth Voice Project, which will conduct focus groups with 7th-12th grade students to identify their perceptions of oral health in their community. Students will develop oral health outreach initiatives, campaigns, and messages delivered via Native Reach TV, and a Project Advisor will engage in workforce development programming to nurture interest in oral health careers. The Foundation will also pilot a same day treatment protocol in the School Based Health Center to disrupt current model where students are referred to treatment over 100 miles away in Billings.

This grant, through the School-Based and School-Linked Initiatives to Improve Oral Health RFP, will support More Smiles Wisconsin in the expansion of oral health collaborations between schools, school-based prevention programs, and local dentists through the existing and recently established Hometown Smiles program.

The purpose of this grant is to support the New Mainers Public Health Initiative to host health literacy groups, educate and train community members in advocacy toward expanded access to oral health care, and conduct further evaluation of the impact of its oral health-focused community engagement.

This grant, through the School-Based and School-Linked Initiatives to Improve Oral Health RFP, will support Nicklaus Children's Hospital Pediatric Dentistry Department (NCHPDD) in partnership with Borinquen Medical Center (BMC) and eight elementary public schools in Miami-Dade County increase access to oral health care for recent immigrant children.

This grant, through the School-Based and School-Linked Initiatives to Improve Oral Health RFP, will support the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's Oral Health Unit, in collaboration with Youth Healthcare Alliance, to further expand school based oral health through engaging schools and communities to address systemic barriers to oral health for children and their families.

This grant, through the School-Based and School-Linked Initiatives to Improve Oral Health RFP, will support the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics in the education and empowerment of school nurses to implement a school-based oral health program. This will include preventive education, topical fluoride varnish application, and dental referral through targeted educational resources for school nurses.

The purpose of this grant is to support Poverty Action c/o Solid Ground in the coordination of the Washington Dental Access Campaign (WDAC) to create a sustainable and equitable oral healthcare system in Washington State. WDAC will do this by implementing Dental Therapy licensure and improving Medicaid dental coverage to increase access to care, reduce disparities, and integrate community-driven advocacy with systemic policy changes.

The purpose of this grant is to support Ready Set Smile's design of a dental home network of community clinics and private/pediatric practitioners and a referral system with follow up policies and procedures to ensure children continue to receive clinically appropriate oral health care.

The purpose of this grant is to support the Southern Plains Tribal Health Board to establish and maintain a racial misclassification advisory group (RMAG), made up of tribal and clinical oral health stakeholders, to map and propose solutions to instances of misclassification throughout the care process.

This grant, through the Disability Justice and Inclusion in Oral Health Request for Proposals, will support AIDPH and Coalition of Texans with Disabilities to develop tools and resources for state advocates to advance access to care for the disability community through Medicaid.

This purpose of this grant is to support The Arc of the United State in raising awareness about oral health disparities within the disability community, advocating for legislative improvements to service access, and establishing a network of providers better equipped to meet the needs of this community. Cornerstone to this project is incorporating and elevating the voices and lived experiences of individuals with IDD, their caretakers and family members.

This grant, through the Disability Justice and Inclusion in Oral Health Request for Proposals, will support the UCLA School of Dentistry to address culturally relevant and accessible oral health education and advocacy for the disability community through a community-driven project.

The purpose of this grant is to support the University of Florida Foundation continued implementation of the D-CARE project. Grant funding will help establish a sustainable and scalable model for mobile dental clinics that provide accessible, preventive, and minimally invasive dental care for individuals with disabilities, while promoting best practices and contributing to broader advocacy and policy efforts to enhance oral health equity.

This grant, through the Expanding Access and Equity for Veterans Oral Health RFP, will support the University of Texas Health and Science Center at Houston to pilot a study to investigate the impact of dental care in behavioral health treatment among veterans.

This grant, through the Expanding Access and Equity for Veterans Oral Health RFP, will support work by the Upper Peninsula Commission for Area Progress (UPCAP) to conduct community forums in multiple locations across a 15-county region to engage veterans, service members, family/caregivers, dental providers, insurers/health plan providers, and policy makers regarding the state of veteran oral health care and barriers to access.

The purpose of this grant is to support Vista Community Clinic in the expansion and enhancement of its pediatric-focused medical-dental integration project at its current location and four additional clinics.

The purpose of this grant is to support Voices for Vermont's Children's creation of an outreach and awareness campaign that reflects community-identified oral health policy priorities, promotes the use of medical management of dental disease, and improves access to care for Medicaid-enrolled and uninsured patients through intentional medical-dental integration policy design.

This grant, through the School-Based and School-Linked Initiatives to Improve Oral Health RFP, will support Well Child Center in forming and convening a Community of Practice to improve oral health in the second largest school district in Illinois (western suburbs of Chicago).

The purpose of this grant is to implement and strengthen community engagement within Children's Health Alliance of Wisconsin's Wisconsin Medical-Dental Integration initiative, and further utilize this group to address billing issues related to integration in WI clinics.

This grant is to support the Refugee Community Partnership to counter language-based exclusion in oral and medical healthcare settings through the deployment of Language Navigators from the refugee and migrant community to capture and assess the availability and quality of interpretation services toward establishing a full reimbursement benefit for interpretation in Medicaid.

The purpose of this grant is to support the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry (UMSD) determine how social and economic determinants of health (SoDH) intersect with health literacy and selected health conditions at the zip code level and, based on those findings, create interventions to improve oral health access and status.

The purpose of this grant is to influence the Medicare system to expand dental coverage in Medicare, influence the Medicaid system to expand dental services through Medicaid waivers, and engage the Aging and Disability Network in oral health advocacy. Justice in Aging does this through a model of change that relies on the interplay of education and training, policy advocacy, and litigation.

This proposal is to support Suwannee River Area Health Education Center as the fiscal sponsor for Floridians for Dental Access (FLDA), to advocate for the passage of dental therapy legislation in Florida. Additionally, the activities outlined in this proposal will support Florida in joining the Dentist and Dental Hygienist Compact. This compact creates reciprocity among participating states which reduces barriers to license portability, ultimately increasing workforce availability through decreased licensure restrictions.

The purpose of this grant is to support ABLE NH to champion better access to appropriate and inclusive oral healthcare services for individuals with disabilities and provides leadership to the New Hampshire Oral Health Care Task Force.

This grant will support the Center for the Integration of Primary Care and Oral Health (CIPCOH), as a part of Harvard School of Dental Medicine, implement the fourth year of the 100 Million Mouths Campaign, expanding the number of states with designated primary care oral health champions to 26.

The purpose of this grant is to support the Illinois Primary Health Care Association's work in three key areas: developing an oral health policy strategic plan to inform their work over the next few years, improving the integration between oral health and behavioral health services, and supporting the oral health safety-net in Illinois by hosting the Illinois Oral Health Conference and by supporting continuing education for Dental Assistants.

This funding will support New Hampshire Oral Health Coalition (NHOHC) to conduct a landscape analysis of current school-based oral health programs (SBOHP) to determine the key factors and efforts needed to re-establish and strengthen school-based programs as an evidence-based first line of defense in the prevention of dental disease for children utilizing minimally invasive techniques.

The purpose of this grant is to support the Lunder-Dineen Health Education Alliance of Maine (Lunder-Dineen) adapt and scale its MOTIVATE at Home online learning curriculum for use beyond care settings, such as Area Agencies on Aging and professional dental education programs.

The purpose of this grant is to support The Fund for a Healthier Colorado to initiate dental therapy training programs at institutions of higher education to support the legislative and regulatory steps completed in 2023 to license dental therapists in Colorado.

The purpose of this grant is to support Maine Equal Justice Partners to gather and integrate consumer input in the implementation of Maine's Medicaid adult dental benefit and advocacy for expansion of Medicaid to all Mainers regardless of immigration status.

The purpose of this grant is to support the Pennsylvania Coalition for Oral Health (PCOH) to address oral health disparities through advocacy for expanded Medicaid dental benefits for adults and those with disabilities as well as the enhancement of school-based dental services, particularly through the role of public health dental hygienists.

The purpose of this grant is to support Cambridge Health Alliance to pilot the integration of a dental hygienist into primary care within one of Massachusetts' Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) with the goals of increasing access to care, enhance prevention, and better coordinate services for historically marginalized communities.

Penn Dental Medicine's Center for Integrative Global Oral Health will use the $90,000 grant to support a student in our Master of Oral and Population Health program, support being tuition and fee remission. MOPH tuition/fees are listed at this link at the bottom of the degree programs (MOPH) https://srfs.upenn.edu/costs-budgeting/graduate-cost-attendance/school-dental-medicine/graduate-dental-education.

The purpose of this grant is to support University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) Institute for Human Development perform a needs assessment to inform the design of a community-based intervention that addresses barriers for minority pregnant and postpartum mothers and infants to improve oral health outcomes.

The purpose of this proposal is to support the teams at PNWU-SDM and NIHC to develop, implement, measure, and share a comprehensive, multi-year interprofessional education (IPE) curriculum for DMD students and professionals.

The purpose of this grant is to support the capacity of Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Georgia's Working Group to continue to bring together key decision makers, perinatal and oral health professionals, providers, and pregnant and postpartum people to build upon identified solutions through the development of an Oral Health and Pregnancy Awareness campaign.

The purpose of this grant is to organize and support a public workshop to engage leaders of oral health demonstration projects that cater to underserved populations, with the aim of sharing available data and metrics for effective interprofessional learning for addressing individual and community needs through an oral health lens.

The purpose of the National Conference of State Legislature's grant is to inform and engage state legislators as essential stakeholders in oral health policy and to inform OPEN members about state-level oral health policy.

The purpose of this grant is to support research at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to determine the prevalence of oral and dental problems, as well as potential solutions, for and with older adults living in long-term care and community settings.

The purpose of this grant is to support the American Dental Hygienists' Association in the development of a Dental Hygienists Licensure Map, that will offer licensure information across various categories, enhancing the accessibility of licensure information for current and prospective dental hygienists.

The purpose of this grant is to continue the work of the Hospital Oral Care and Proactive Education (HOPE) program to gather patient feedback to inform outcomes, prove program efficacy by capturing data for analysis, build more provider training, and standardize oral care hygiene treatment throughout six Banner's hospitals in Arizona.

The purpose of this grant is to replace a panoramic x-ray machine at the San Jose Clinic in Houston, Texas.

The purpose of this grant is to support research conducted at Boston University that will explore the social (cultural) and structural (political and economic) drivers and mechanisms of inequitable access, utilization, and clinical oral health outcomes among Latino/a/e adults across two related studies.

The purpose of this grant is to support programming from the American Network of Oral Health Coalitions, including the Peer Support Mentoring Program, the new Emerging Coalitions Learning Collaborative, and the annual meeting.

The purpose of this grant is to support Berkeley Free Dental Clinic's oral health services by purchasing a flash sterilizer, additional dental hygiene instruments, and installation of an Isodry system in dental chairs.

The purpose of this grant is to support the West Virginia Oral Health Coalition's Oral Health Summit, hosted on August 16, 2024.

The purpose of this grant is to support Neighborhood Services Organization (NSO) replace a suction pump in its low-cost dental clinic, the only clinic of its kind in Oklahoma.

The purpose of this grant is to support a free Community Dental Care Day in rural Oklahoma.

The purpose of this grant is to support Footbridge Clinic in the delivery of a free dental clinic day.

The purpose of this grant is to support the 2024 Minnesota Mission of Mercy (2024 MN MOM).

This funding will support the International Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research (IADR) Distinguished Scientist Award - Behavioral, Epidemiological and Health Services Research.