Home by One Dental Homes for Children by Age 1 Building a Service Delivery System in Connecticut Around WIC TOHSS Grantee Meeting April 28, 2010
Dec 24, 2015
Home by OneDental Homes for Children by Age 1
Building a Service Delivery System in Connecticut Around WICTOHSS Grantee Meeting April 28, 2010
Prevalence of Decay in Connecticut’s Preschool Children
31
20
14
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
Caries Experience
Untreated Decay
Rampant Caries
Source: CT DPH Every Smile Counts Survey 2007
Home by One Program• GOALS
– Parents Understand and Value Oral Health– Develop partnerships and referral patterns
between WIC, dental and medical providers – Develop a network of providers that are
knowledgeable, available and accessible– Reduce and prevent oral disease
• ACTIVITIES– Parent Training/Education– Physician Training/WIC Staff Training– Integration of Systems of Care– Dental Home Development/Age One Dental
Visit Training– Consistent Oral Health Messages Throughout
State
WIC is a Federally Funded Nutrition Program:–Infants and preschool children (0-5 yrs)
–Mothers
Pregnant Postpartum Breastfeeding
–38 % - of all CT babies are already enrolled in WIC at birth
–50 % - of US babies are already enrolled in WIC at birth
•Why the Women’s Infant and Children’s Supplemental Food Program (WIC)?
–“Teachable” moment
–Convenient access to population of age 1 children
–WIC supports interface between oral health and nutrition
–WIC provides support services to help ensure parents attend appointments
–Children at risk for poor oral health
–Early prevention is effective in reducing oral disease
Key Factor for Building Successful Collaboration with WICKey Factor for Building Successful Collaboration with WICCContact, personalized attention, one to one
OOvercome Challenges, troubleshoot
OOrchestrate links to community dental resources
RRecruiting parent dental advocates
DDevelop dental provider networks, relationships
IIntegration of oral health education into site
NNavigate patient’s to dental home
AAvailability to answer questions from WIC staff
TTravel out to sites, special events, presentations
OOnline training including consistent messaging
RResource for education materials, connections
Program Coordinator for Home by One(funded by TOHSS) State of Connecticut, Department of Public Health,Office of Oral Health
CT Department of Public HealthState Agencies
OFFICE OF ORAL HEALTH Home by One Coordinator
Child HealthProviders
Treating the Children of
the Local WIC ProgramDentists and RDHin the WIC Community
OfferingAGE ONE Dental Visits
Dental Homes
Local WIC RegionsBridgeport, Bristol, TVCCA, Danbury,
New Haven, East Hartford,Hartford, Meriden, Torrington, Windham, Stamford, Waterbury
Parents Advocating
for Children’s Oral Health
Medical-Dental Home Model
By 2011
Oral Health Prevention Age One dental Visits25,000 WIC Children
Dental Home Models Developed Around WIC
FAMILYDENTAL
HOME
WICCOMMUNITY
HEALTHHOME
MODEL
LOCALHEALTHDENTAL
HOMEMODEL
WICPEDIATRIC
DENTISTPARTNERSHIP
RDH AT WIC
SITE
MEDICALDENTAL
MARRIAGE
DH STUDENT COMMUNITY
PROGRAMSLinking WIC CLIENTS to
DENTALHOMES
MEDICAL CARECoordinator
WICPARTNERSHIP
Next Steps:
Utilize Parent Dental Advocates
Connect Physicians to Dental Home Networks
Develop and Pilot:medical-dental home model