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Community Dental Clinic

A Good Idea

Description

Crawford-Sebastian Community Development Council's Community Dental Clinic provides low-income families with routine dental care, specialty referral and preventive/educational services. Families must meet the eligibility criteria in order to qualify for treatment.

Goal / Mission

The goal of this program is to improve the health of all its community members, while providing the same quality of service paid for by privately insured patients.

Results / Accomplishments

Patients are able to overcome health barriers that would have prevented them from functioning normally on the job or at school.

About this Promising Practice

Organization(s)
Crawford-Sebastian Community Development Council
Primary Contact
Jo Boyd Hines, Program Director
Crawford-Sebastian Community Development Council
PO Box 4069
Fort Smith, Arkansas 72914
(501) 782-2061
Topics
Health / Oral Health
Health / Health Care Access & Quality
Organization(s)
Crawford-Sebastian Community Development Council
Source
Center for Community Action Research
Date of publication
2002
Date of implementation
1997
Location
Crawford-Sebastian County, AK
For more details
http://www.cscdccaa.org/community_dental_clinic.ht...
Target Audience
Families
Additional Audience
Low-Income

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A Good Idea meets the following HCI criteria:

  1. The program description includes: the sponsoring organization, program goals, program funding source, program implementation steps and outcomes.
  2. The program evaluation is limited to descriptive measure(s) of success/accomplishment (i.e., program participation rates, number of services/education sessions/radio messages provided). Note: oftentimes, the program has been newly implemented and a program evaluation has not yet been conducted. Programs that have not yet been evaluated, but which show promise in improving health or quality of life, are classified as Good Ideas until an evaluation is conducted.
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