Carequest Institute for Oral Health

The purpose of this grant is to support four CareQuest Institute for Oral Health promotional pieces in the quarterly Journal of the Hispanic Dental Association.

The purpose of this grant is to build upon the existing momentum of Families USA's Oral Health for All Campaign, a long-term, multi-faceted campaign to expand access to oral healthcare through Medicaid and Medicare policy.

The purpose of this grant is to build upon the existing momentum of Families USA's Oral Health for All Campaign, a long-term, multi-faceted campaign to expand access to oral healthcare through Medicaid and Medicare policy.

This proposal supports Community Catalyst to serve as a critical and strategic partner to CareQuest Institute through advancing federal oral health policy, strengthening the capacity of CareQuest Institute grantees to engage in community-driven policy advocacy, and supporting and expanding consumer-driven demand for new, integrated, minimally invasive, person-centered models of care.

This proposal supports Community Catalyst to serve as a critical and strategic partner to CareQuest Institute through advancing federal oral health policy, strengthening the capacity of CareQuest Institute grantees to engage in community-driven policy advocacy, and supporting and expanding consumer-driven demand for new, integrated, minimally invasive, person-centered models of care.

The purpose of this grant is to support the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board's efforts to implement the Community Health Aide Program (CHAP) at the federal level, as well as design and implement indigenized Health Aide programs to improve oral health access in the Pacific Northwest.

The purpose of this grant is to support advocacy efforts to protect and expand Medicaid coverage of oral health care as well as strengthen the linguistic and cultural quality of care through community advocacy training and grassroots capacity building.

The proposal is to support the Oral Health Nursing Education Program (OHNEP) at New York University (NYU) in deepening oral health within the nursing standards of care, expanding nursing curricula to be inclusive of serving the oral health needs of patients with special health care needs, and further institutionalizing oral health within care for Veterans.

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 third phase of the 100 Million Mouths Campaign, expanding the number of states with designated Champions by eight.

This proposal is to support the University of Washington in developing an innovative data simulation tool that will build support for states across the country in building a measurable and financial justification for protecting Medicaid adult dental benefits.

The purpose of this grant is to implement and assess a Continuing Education program for Massachusetts oral health providers that will increase providers serving as dental homes for children under 3, as well as piloting a complimenting value-based payment model.

The purpose of this grant is to support Health Care For All's oral health policy and advocacy work promoting integration within the Medicaid 1115 waiver, to maintain a comprehensive adult dental benefit, to establish a statewide oral health equity commission, and to explore teledentistry and innovative workforce models.

The purpose of this grant is to support Florida Voices for Health's capacity to integrate and sustain important coalition-building and advocacy development activities, initiated by Florida Institute for Innovation, into its ongoing efforts to establish a Medicaid Adult Dental Benefit in Florida

The purpose of this grant is to support year two of the statewide Prenatal and Post-partum Advisory Board (PPAB) in assessing barriers to care for this population and developing solutions for these systemic issues.

The purpose of this grant is to support Children's Action Alliance and Arizona Oral Health Coalition's (CAA/AZOHC) efforts to advocate for comprehensive Medicaid adult dental coverage, access to care for underserved and under-resourced populations, and enhanced emphasis on provider cultural competency.

The purpose of this grant is to support the development of a community-driven Colorado oral health agenda and ensuring community voices in the development of the Colorado Oral Health Coalition infrastructure.

The purpose of this grant is to strengthen the integration of oral health within the community health worker workforce at a national level, to build a new national partnership focused on interprofessional education, and to advance the recommendations from the HRSA Advisory Committee on Training in Primary Care Medicine and Dentistry.

The purpose of this grant is to support the Missouri Oral Health Coalition in piloting a value-based, dental alternative payment model specifically to serve people with disabilities through teledentistry.

The purpose of this grant is to support Texas Health Institute in implementing a multi-pronged strategy to partner with both local organizations and decision-makers across the state to build an oral health policy agenda while implementing efforts to specifically strengthen the Texas safety net.

The purpose of this grant is to support the American Dental Therapy Association to strengthen its internal organizational and financial infrastructure while launching a strategy to strengthen the alignment and capacity of the practice of dental therapy.

This grant will support the Michigan Primary Care Association to partner with the CareQuest Institute Health Transformation Team to implement the Community Oral Health Transformation (COrHT) Initiative through implementing an intentionally designed capacity-building initiative for Michigan community health centers to position the safety net for implementing new models of oral health value-based care and payment (VBC/P)

The purpose of the grant is to ensure consumer and community voice are elevated as Kansas implements the new Medicaid adult dental benefit and assesses its preliminary implementation.

The purpose of this grant is to support the Idaho Primary Care Association in implementing the CareQuest Institute Three Domains Framework through piloting teledentistry to increase access to care in a frontier community, testing the use of minimally invasive care procedures within community health centers and advancing the integration of dental data into the state Health Information Exchange.

The purpose of this grant is to support the Denver Health Foundation, in partnership with Denver Health, to demonstrate the impact of a new integrated approach to delivering HPV vaccines in dental settings to expand access to new, whole-person care models.

The purpose of this grant is to secure a Medicaid adult dental benefit in Maryland and to improve access to oral health care for pregnant people by expanding the scope of practice of certain key members of oral health care teams.

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 is to support efforts to advance equity through language access policy, improved statewide data collection and reporting systems, and the elevation of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) community voices in oral health in California.

The purpose of this grant is to support AltaMed's advocacy training initiatives for residents of Southeast Los Angeles and the development and dissemination of an equity-based, systems-change toolkit to federally qualified health centers in and beyond Southern California.

This proposal is to support Children Now in protecting and advancing California health policies and regulations related to accountable care coordination, funding for coverage, and school-based oral health programming.

The purpose of this grant is to support American Children's Campaign (ACC) to execute its strategic advocacy work, which focuses primarily on a scientific polling effort and ensuing communications campaign in support of dental therapy authorization in Florida.

The purpose of this grant is to support Michigan Oral Health Coalition's advocacy to increase funding for adult Medicaid dental services and to host community conversations in key areas of the state exploring barriers to care.

This grant is to support Community Health Center, Inc., to advance an equity-grounded, patient-centered approach to improving dental care access, utilization, and outcomes among people living with HIV and AIDS.

This grant will support the National Network of Oral Health Access in organizing and implementing a network approach to strengthening the capacity of the primary care associations across the country to advance policy and regulatory change that drive oral health transformation

The purpose of this grant is to expand access to oral health care for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) through the designation of this population as a Medically Underserved Population.

This proposal will support the American Academy of Pediatrics to deepen understanding, elevate opportunities, and build consensus around new clinically integrated opportunities for pediatricians applying silver-diamine fluoride to advance the integration of oral health into primary care

The purpose of this grant is to support Ohio Federation for Health Equity and Social Justice to sustain its engagement of kinship caregivers and the youth in their care through story collection, policy advocacy, and the development and distribution of an oral health advocates toolkit designed to mobilize communities.

This grant is intended to support the Connecticut Oral Health Initiative to advance a new oral health policy agenda that was developed through a 2022 Medicaid Gap Analysis that focused on expanding benefit caps, revising the dental therapy licensure, and building public and provider support for alternative payment models in oral health.

This grant is to support NC Child to distill feedback from historically marginalized communities across North Carolina into a policy advocacy agenda and galvanize local and statewide support for advancing oral health policy targeted at oral health system transformation.

The purpose of this grant is to support South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center to carry out a statewide oral health landscape analysis, engage communities and organizational partners for the Healthcare Stories Project, and to advocate for Medicaid expansion that includes dental benefits in South Carolina.

The purpose of this grant is to strengthen the oral health capacity of Utah Health Policy Project's Health Access Assisters, strengthen a coalition of community-driven oral health advocates, and elevate consumer stories around oral health policy opportunities in Utah.

The purpose of this grant is to pilot an integrated model of oral health care with sexually transmitted infection/disease (STI/STD) identification, care, and referral, and to advance policy and payment in order to expand adoption and spread of the model.

The purpose of this grant is to capitalize on the momentum created from passing a comprehensive Medicaid adult dental benefit by assessing and advancing network adequacy, engaging communities to identify opportunities to employ new models of care and strengthening data equity across the state.

The purpose of this grant is to support a robust, multi-year impact analysis of the newly implemented Medicaid Adult Dental Benefit in West Virginia including its effects on cost of care, benefit utilization rates, Emergency Department (ED) utilization, chronic conditions, and utilization of social safety net programs.

The purpose of this grant is to support Poverty Action, a leading organization within the Washington Dental Access Campaign, to engage new community and legislative stakeholders with an expanded set of oral health policy goals, advocacy training opportunities, and data collection activities that promote equity and racial justice in and beyond the state of Washington.

This proposal is to support the Illinois Primary Health Care Association equitably expand the oral health workforce to sustainably address pervasive shortages and advance new models of integrated, prenatal oral health care in the dental safety net.

This grant will support the National Association of Community Health Centers to advance oral health integration within the broader community health center field, design new roles within the oral health workforce, and advocate for federal and state policies that advance oral health equity