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An online professional development course to train CHWs to provide oral health outreach to guardians of low-income youth

Award Number: R44MD016352
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 07/26/2021
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 02/28/2026

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An online professional development course to train CHWs to provide oral health outreach to guardians of low-income youth - ABSTRACT KDH Research & Communication (KDHRC) submits this Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) application to expand and fully evaluate Guardians Receiving Information through Navigators (GRIN). GRIN is an evidence-based, online professional development course to prepare community health workers (CHWs) to provide oral health outreach to low-income parents/guardians (henceforth guardians) of children and adolescents. GRIN seeks to increase CHWs’ knowledge, attitudes and beliefs, perceived self-efficacy, and intentions to conduct oral health outreach to guardians.  The need for GRIN is great. Tooth decay, especially when untreated, creates lasting and substantial physical and psychosocial consequences for children and adolescents. Low-income populations have disproportionately high rates of tooth decay and related consequences. Such disproportionately impacted children are less likely to receive preventive dental visits, experience primary tooth decay, and experience more untreated tooth decay. To address these needs and meet calls to action for evidence-based programs to support CHWs to conduct oral health outreach to guardians of children and adolescents, KDHRC developed GRIN. Our Phase I efforts yielded a prototype with supportive feasibility results and solid partnerships on which we based our Phase II approach. Indeed, CHW professional organizations, including the National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center, the National AHEC Organization (NAO), and Morehouse School of Medicine, committed to the scientific execution and commercial distribution of this project and substantiate GRIN’s programmatic importance and commercial potential.  In Phase II, we will develop additional interactive content, film video vignettes, and finalize GRIN. Then, we will conduct a well-powered and methodologically strong two-condition randomized controlled trial to test GRIN’s effectiveness. Our market research suggests a significant need and eager market, and support from myriad stakeholders committed to GRIN’s scientific rigor and rapid dissemination further substantiate GRIN’s importance and commercial potential. 


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2025	2024	KDH RESEARCH AND COMMUNICATION, INC	145 15TH ST NE APT 831	ATLANTA	GA	30309	FULTON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	3	7/24/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $1,099,997 )
2024	2024	KDH RESEARCH AND COMMUNICATION, INC	145 15TH ST NE APT 831	ATLANTA	GA	30309	FULTON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	003	3	6/5/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$103,296
2024	2024	KDH RESEARCH AND COMMUNICATION, INC	145 15TH ST NE APT 831	ATLANTA	GA	30309	FULTON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	002	3	3/17/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$929,652
2024	2023	KDH RESEARCH & COMMUNICATION, INC.	145 15TH ST NE APT 831	ATLANTA	GA	30309	FULTON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	2	10/24/2023	COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2024	2023	KDH RESEARCH AND COMMUNICATION, INC	145 15TH ST NE APT 831	ATLANTA	GA	30309	FULTON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	2	2/26/2024	COMPETING CONTINUATION	$67,049
														Subtotal = $1,099,997

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $866,424 )
2023	2023	KDH RESEARCH & COMMUNICATION, INC.	145 15TH ST NE APT 831	ATLANTA	GA	30309	FULTON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	2	7/31/2023	COMPETING CONTINUATION	$866,424
														Subtotal = $866,424

Grand Total All Awards = $1,966,421

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An online professional development course to train CHWs to provide oral health outreach to guardians of low-income youth

Award Number: R44MD016352

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 07/26/2021

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 02/28/2026

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