These free events kick off National Children's Dental Health Month in February! Families can take their children for free dental screenings and preventive care ~ to get familiar with their local dental clinic and staff, while enjoying fun games and gifts for the kids and families! Flyers for the event are available for download in English, Spanish, and Chinese. Share this information widely with your patients, clients and community members.
Every year, in partnership with the San Francisco Unified School District and the San Francisco Dental Society, the San Francisco Department of Public Health Dental Programs conduct oral health screenings for San Francisco kindergarteners. Last year (2017-2018) a total of 3,956 kindergarteners from 73 schools were screened. In San Francisco, 32% of all kindergarteners screened have experienced cavities by kindergarten. Significant oral health disparities still continue to exist between kindergarteners of color and white kindergarteners. Disparities also exist geographically across the city. Low income neighborhoods in the city have higher rates of cavities experience.
Thursday, November 1, 2018
8:30-11:30am 25 Van Ness Avenue, Room 610, San Francisco, CA 94102 2 hours of Continuing Education credits are available for RNs, LVNs; 2 hours of Dental Education credits available; and 2 hours of CME’s from American Academy of Family Physicians available. Please indicate in registration your interest in continuing education credits. Find out more & Register here The San Francisco Dental Transformation Initiative Local Dental Pilot Project is proud to be the co-host of the 4th Annual Children’s Oral Health Leadership forum that took place last Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at St Mary’s Cathedral's St Francis Hall.
The event was hosted by CavityFree SF Coalition, SFDPH, and UCSF. Other co-hosts of the event included: SF Health Network, Our Children Our Families Council, and SF Unified School District (SFUSD). Dr. Edward Chow, President of the San Francisco Health Commission opened the event and Hydra Mendoza-McDonnell, Deputy Chief of Staff for Education and Equity to Mayor Mark Farrell and President of the San Francisco Unified School District Board of Education was keynote speaker at the event. This forum was an opportunity for SF community leaders to learn about the successes and opportunities for improving dental care for better overall health and a healthier SF. We shared San Francisco children’s oral health status updates, and discussed policy and system changes, and cross sector collaborations impacting children’s oral health locally, state and nation-wide. Oral health advocates represented by California Department of Public Health, SF DTI LDPP, NICOS Chinese Health Coalition, Our Children Our Families Council, San Francisco Dental Society, San Francisco State University, San Francisco Unified School District, and UCSF spoke on the panels of the event. The event ended with an appreciation for Cathi Fuller, long-time oral health champion and school nurse at the San Francisco Unified School District School Health Programs. SF DTI LDPP sincerely thanks all of the community stakeholders and participants for attending the forum and for their continued dedication in improving children’s oral health in San Francisco. |
AuthorThe San Francisco Dental Transformation Initiative is a 4 year-long project funded by the CA Department of Health Care Services DTI QUARTERLY Newsletter ARCHIVEBLOG Archives
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