Earlier Is Better

Project Overview

7th Funding Cycle Impact Award
     Project Start Date: 1/1/2012
     Project End Date: 12/31/2016

Project Goal Statement: To reduce the dental caries experience of Wisconsin Early Head Start children through evidence-based prevention and educational interventions during Early Head Start Programming.

Award Amount: $746,485

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

• Wisconsin Dental Association
• Wisconsin Department of Health Services Oral Health Program
• Wisconsin Head Start Association

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

• Lisa Olson, Department of Pediatrics, Center for the Advancement of Underserved Children
• Chelsea Hamilton, Department of Pediatrics, Center for the Advancement of Underserved Children

Project Progress Summary Reports:
     Project Progress Report Summary 1/1/2012 - 8/31/2012

Affiliated Web Pages:
     Children's Health Alliance of Wisconsin
     Wisconsin Dental Association
     Wisconsin Department of Health Services Oral Health Program
     Wisconsin Head Start Association

Project Dissemination Efforts (as reported by project partners)

• Articles
  • Article in the Wisconsin Dental Association Journal (October 2012)
• Presentations
  • Introduced Earlier Is Better to Early Head Start health and nutrition staff at quarterly meeting (January 11, 2012)
  • Presented and displayed information on the project and the parent oral health education toolkit at a table exhibit during the Wisconsin Oral Health Coalition meeting (September 11, 2012)
  • Presented at the National Oral Health Conference (April 30 and May 2, 2012)