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    Making Milwaukee Smile

    Project Overview

    4th Funding Cycle Impact Award
         Project Start Date: 7/1/2008
         Project End Date: 6/30/2011 No Cost Extension Through: 12/31/2011

    Project Goal Statement: This project will implement a major recommendation of the oral health action plan, Healthy Teeth = Healthy Kids to provide primary, secondary and tertiary level care by a consortium of organizations utilizing a school-based oral health care model.

    Original Award Amount: $446,519
    Adjusted Award Amount: $369,114*

    Community Partners:
    Primary Community Partner: Children's Health Alliance of Wisconsin
    Additional community partner organization names:

    • Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Dental Center
    • Columbia St. Mary's
    • Marquette University Dental School
    • Milwaukee Health Services Inc.
    • Milwaukee Public Schools
    • Southeast Dental Associates

    Academic Partner:
    Primary Academic Partner: Earnestine Willis, MD, MPH, Department of Pediatrics

    Project Progress Summary Reports:
         Project Progress Report Summary 7/1/2008 - 4/30/2009
         Project Progress Report Summary 5/1/2009 - 6/30/2009
         Project Progress Report Summary 7/1/2009 - 12/31/2009
         Project Progress Report Summary 1/1/2010 - 6/30/2010
         Project Progress Report Summary 7/1/2010 - 12/31/2010
         Project Progress Report Summary 1/1/2011 - 6/30/2011
         Project Final Report Summary    

    Affiliated Web Pages:
         Children's Health Alliance of Wisconsin
         Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Dental Center
         Columbia St. Mary's
         Marquette University Dental School
         Milwaukee Health Services Inc.
         Milwaukee Public Schools
         Southeast Dental Associates

    Project Dissemination Efforts (as reported by project partners)

    • Outreach Materials / Events
      • Making Milwaukee Smile report and release meeting. Fall 2011.
      • Featured in The Bellwether, A Newsletter of the American Association for Community Dental Programs. July 2012.
    • Posters
      • Poster presentation at the National Oral Health Conference. St Louis, MO. Spring 2010.
    • Presentations
      • Presentation at the Wisconsin Oral Health Coalition Southeast Regional Meeting. Fall 2010.
      • Presentation at the HWPP Community Engagement for Health Conference. Milwaukee, WI. October 26, 2010.
      • Presentation at the Wisconsin Seal-A-Smile Annual Meeting. Spring 2011.
      • Presentation at the American Association of Community Dental Programs/National Oral Health Conference. May 2012.

    *In 2009 award amounts, based on the remaining budget, were adjusted to reflect the decline in endowment asset value due to the downturn in the economy.