2025 Catalog: All Courses

Dental initiatives provide dental access and education within our Native communities that can address dental disparities. These programs can set trends of compared outcomes throughout years of community services. This presentation will describe how to receive funding for dental initiatives within OCA/BEM Areas and provide outcomes of FY2024 initiatives by funded awardees within the OCA/BEM Areas.

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
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1.   Identify the OCA/BEM Dental Support Center FY2025 Initiative.
2.   Describe how to complete an OCA/BEM mini-grant application.
3.   Recognize outcomes and results of mini-grant initiative.

Keasha Myrick — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at Keasha.Myrick@ihs.gov.

Dana Duell — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at DDuell@iowanation.org.

McKenzie Verbout — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at Mckenzie.Verbout@ihs.gov.

Theresa Chennault — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at theresa.chennault@ihs.gov.

Kimberly Sturm — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at k.sturm@BadRiverHWC.com.

Vinessa Mills — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at vinessa.mills@ihs.gov.

Brandie Moore — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at brandie.moore@ihs.gov.

Candace Williams — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at crwilliams@kictribe.org.

The speaker has no conflicts of interest to report.

It is the policy of the Indian Health Service, Division of Oral Health, that faculty/planners disclose any financial or other relationships with commercial companies whose products may be discussed in the educational activity. The Indian Health Service, Division of Oral Health, also requires that faculty disclose any unlabeled or investigative use of pharmaceutical products and medical devices. Images that have been falsified or manipulated to misrepresent treatment outcomes are prohibited.

None of the faculty/planners for this activity has a conflict of interest, and there is no use of unlabeled or investigative pharmaceutical products or medical devices. No images have been falsified or manipulated to misrepresent treatment outcomes.The educational objectives, content, and selection of educational methods and instructors are conducted independent of any commercial entity.

The IHS Division of Oral Health is an accredited sponsor of continuing education under the American Dental Association Continuing Education Recognition Program (CERP). ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the IHS at IHS CDE Coordinator or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at CCEPR.ada.org

Participants should be dental staff from IHS, tribal, and urban programs in the Oklahoma City, Bemidji, and Great Plains Areas.

Please Make Checks Payable to: Indian Health Service.

Tuition must be paid in full 8 weeks prior to the start date of any course. Request for refunds must be received in writing at least two weeks before the course begins. For each refund request, there will be an administrative charge of $100. No refunds will be made to registrants who fail to attend a course. If IHS CDE program cancels a course, then 100% of the tuition will be refunded.