Friday, April 18, 2025
4/18/2025
Partner Promotion of Strategies to Advance Oral Health Component 3 - The Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors (ASTDD), a national non-profit (501 c 6) representing S/TOHP, formulates & promotes dental public health policy, assists state & territorial oral health programs (S/TOHP) in developing & implementing programs & policies for the prevention of oral diseases & building infrastructure & capacity; strengthens professionals' competencies; promotes & shares data & resources with collaborators. ASTDD has more than 25 years of experience with CDC cooperative agreements and contracts & collaborating with federal agencies & national organizations. Most S/TOHP don’t provide direct clinical care although they may administer, fund, or support care or provide TA/training. S/TOHP vary in location within the health agency, staffing expertise, size, funding, focus & data capacity. Professionals serving in S/TOHP as dental directors or staff include public health dentists, those from community health centers or private practice, dental hygienists, dental assistants, or non-oral health professionals. They interact with multiple dental and non-dental partners & coalitions. ASTDD maintains a virtual central office in Reno, NV, administered by an executive director who will be Project Director & is a previous state dental director & ASTDD Board member. She is assisted by a business advisor who has worked with ASTDD since 2000. ASTDD is governed by a nine-member Board with 62 dental director members, 26 life members, & 558 associate members, half affiliated with S/TOHP. Fourteen subject matter expert consultants/contractors with diverse backgrounds & long-term experience with ASTDD, will provide staffing & conduct activities with partners & hundreds of volunteer members & non-members from several professions & settings for this project. Component 3 of this CDC three-year cooperative agreement funds a national partner to support state recipients for partnerships that increase their ability to analyze, interpret & disseminate secondary data about: 1a) medical-dental integration of oral health of adults with Type 2 diabetes, their overall health & their use & access to medical & dental care, & 1b) evidence -based dental preventive services (EBPDS) use and access. The national recipient will also evaluate CDC recipient’s activities & partnerships for community water fluoridation (CWF), EBPDS, & infection prevention & control (IPC). ASTDD will collaborate with awardees of Components 1 and 2 of CDC-RFA-DP-24-0049. Year one focuses on collaborations with national partners to support priorities for CDC & state recipients & partners around their populations of focus through TA/training such as workshops, webinars, 1:1 TA, ZOOM calls, & Communities of Practice that focus on using software and statistical methods, identifying data sources & indicators; developing resources such as templates, toolkits, website links, listserv messages; & disseminating data about the projects & populations of focus through social media messages, Weekly Digest announcements, Roundup newsletters. Subsequent years build on these activities using state processes to obtain basic demographic data in school & FQHC settings, & data on program successes, lessons learned, costs, & promising strategies to generate case studies & best practices that are then shared via multiple communication pathways. An experienced evaluation team working with CDC staff uses an analytical approach with quantitative & qualitative strategies to inform states’ & ASTDD’s performance measurements, track & analyze partnerships, evaluate TA/training, evaluate states’ access to & use of data, track improvements, & document quality improvement. Strategies & activities will not duplicate other funded activities or focus areas as ASTDD will collaborate with multiple national partners, state recipients,& multi-sector partners to support states and leverage resources and expertise.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).