Evaluating

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Evaluating Framing Our Work

• February 26-27, 2004
• Candace Jones, RDH, MPH

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Workshop Goal

• Establish a forum for discussion that promotes
• Creative approaches to addressing dental public
  health workforce and infrastructure issues
• Collaborative, coordinated planning.

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Workshop Objectives

• Assemble representatives from a variety of key
  stakeholders from national organizations and
  federal agencies
• Increase awareness and knowledge of dental public
  health workforce issues

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Workshop Objectives

• Brainstorm potential collaborative approaches to
  address the DPH workforce shortage
• Develop a draft national action plan
• Establish a core group to facilitate follow up on
  the action plan

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Great Expectations

• Did we meet your expectations?

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Short Term Anticipated Outcome

• Gain commitment from a variety of national
  organizations and agencies to implement an action
  plan to enhance the dental public health
  workforce and infrastructure.

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Long Term Anticipated Outcome

• Increase capacity to recruit and retain a diverse
  and competent dental public health workforce that
  can help to reduce oral health disparities in
  underserved populations in the U.S.

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Next steps

• Identify core group to help define next steps
• Meet at NOHC in May

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Acknowledgements

• Sponsors
• Planning Committee
• Steering Committee
• Participants
• Other contributors