The Hearts and Hands Clinic’s: Community Response Project for Oral Health
Location
Virtual
Faculty Mentors
Dr. Yelena Tarasenko
Course Name
Public Health Funding and Grants
Academic Unit
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Session Type
Graduate Poster Presentation
Presentation Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Start Date
14-4-2020 2:30 PM
Description
Hearts and Hands Clinic is a community clinic aimed at promoting healthy living and health education by providing free primary health services for citizens of Bulloch County, who are medically uninsured and have an income at or below 200% of the federal poverty guideline. As the clinic needed to secure funding to expand its oral health services, students, faculty, and community partner completed a service-learning project as part of the doctoral course on public health funding and grants. Specifically, students developed a grant application for the DentaQuest requesting resources for hiring one hygienist; increasing the number of beneficiaries receiving dental care by 100%, and conducting 40 weekly oral health education sessions at the clinic. The primary lesson learned from this project was how to prepare a strong application and how to use applied learning for social change.
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The Hearts and Hands Clinic’s: Community Response Project for Oral Health
Virtual
Hearts and Hands Clinic is a community clinic aimed at promoting healthy living and health education by providing free primary health services for citizens of Bulloch County, who are medically uninsured and have an income at or below 200% of the federal poverty guideline. As the clinic needed to secure funding to expand its oral health services, students, faculty, and community partner completed a service-learning project as part of the doctoral course on public health funding and grants. Specifically, students developed a grant application for the DentaQuest requesting resources for hiring one hygienist; increasing the number of beneficiaries receiving dental care by 100%, and conducting 40 weekly oral health education sessions at the clinic. The primary lesson learned from this project was how to prepare a strong application and how to use applied learning for social change.
