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The Oral Health Program was awarded a federal grant in September 2008 to develop the first collaborative statewide oral health strategic plan. The program is working with several partners and stakeholders across the state to develop and implement the plan.

The goal of a state oral health plan is to reduce the prevalence of oral diseases and include specific objectives related to oral health promotion, disease prevention and control, and specific risk factors. A well-crafted plan provides specific, measurable, and time-phased objectives and activities for accomplishing each stated goal.

Please check the links below to learn and participate in the steps of this planning process. 

State Oral Health Plan Process

• What is an Oral Health State Plan? (PDF, 32.6 KB)

• Identify partners and stakeholders in the state (PDF, 49 KB)

• Select Partnership Committee (PDF, 24 KB)

• What other states have done

• Identify oral health needs in the state (PDF, 7 MB

• Get further input through upcoming conference calls and meetings

• Final Summit (Save the date) Bottom of the page

• Drafts (mission statement, state plan) (PDF, 38 KB)

• Final State Plan (due Nov 2009)

Resources

• CDC Guidelines for a State Oral Health Plan  
• CDC Framework for State Oral Health Plans
• CDC Coalition Membership Framework
• CDC's State Public Health System Performance Assessment Instrument
• Healthy People 2010 Oral Health Objectives
• WA State Diabetes Plan
• WA State Health Disease and Stroke Prevention Plan
• WA State Public Health Improvement Plan (PHIP)

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