State Oral Health Planning and Coalition Development

This website provides resources to assist directors of state oral health programs in planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of oral health promotion and disease prevention efforts.

A Best Practice Approach is defined as a public health strategy that is supported by evidence for its impact and effectiveness. A Best Practice Approach Report captures key information that describes the public health strategy, determines the strength of evidence, and illustrates implementation with current practice examples. 

A Best Practice Approach is defined as a public health strategy that is supported by evidence for its impact and effectiveness. A Best Practice Approach Report captures key information that describes the public health strategy, determines the strength of evidence, and illustrates implementation with current practice examples.

This website provides resources to assist directors of state oral health programs in planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of oral health promotion and disease prevention efforts.

This visual chart displays potential members to include, areas for working groups to address, and outputs to determine an active coalition.

This website includes pdf files of state oral health plans. As new ones become available, they are added.

This 1-page model includes objectives, activities, planning outcomes, implementation outcomes and program outcomes.

This PowerPoint was presented by Paul W. Mattessich, PhD during a 2005 webcast.

includes many examples of coalition building around the HP 2010 objectives.

ASTDD provided minigrants to states and US territories to conduct Head Start oral health forums and develop action plans. Collaboration with a diverse group of partners was a requirement for these grants. View the forum reports, action plans and evaluation of forum outcomes through the link.

This PowerPoint was presented by BJ Tatro, PhD during a 2004 ASTDD workshop.