Collaboration

ASTDD collaborates with multiple organizations to accomplish its mission and projects. We define partners as "public, private and nonprofit organizations and federal agencies with which ASTDD has a strategic alliance that enhances each group’s capacity to achieve a common purpose.” In many instances we combine resources to implement joint activities. In some cases, specific liaisons have been designated. ASTDD uses the rubric below to assess its collaborative relationships with partners on an annual basis.

ASTDD has developed the following resources to assist State and Territorial Oral Health Programs in their collaborative efforts:

Opportunities for Increased Collaboration Between State Oral Health and CSHCN Programs

Opportunities for Collaboration between State Oral Health and Maternal and Child Health Programs to Improve Early Childhood Oral Health.

Promoting Access to Oral Health Care through Public-Private Partnerships: Roles for State Oral Health Programs and Oral Health Coalitions.

Strategies to Improve Collaboration Between State Oral Health Programs and CHC Oral Health Programs

Strategies to Improve Collaboration Between State Oral Health Programs and Head Start State Collaboration Offices

Handbook on Planning, Evaluating, and Improving Interagency Collaboration for Oral Health Programs: The purpose of the Handbook is to provide a framework and specific strategies for planning, improving, and evaluating inter-agency collaboration to more effectively and efficiently address our most complicated and complex national oral health issues through strategic alliances and organizational partnerships. Although many examples are targeted to state oral health programs, the materials and concepts apply to any oral health program or coalition.