Oral Health Initiative Grantee Launch Meeting

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• Oral Health Initiative Grantee Launch Meeting
• April 2006

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Meeting Agenda

• Overview of Oral Health Initiative
• Discuss Funded OHI Projects
• Discuss Critical Components of Initiative
• Grant Monitoring
• OHI Evaluation
• OHI Intersection with other Oral Health Efforts
• Grant Agreement
• Grantee Meetings and Meeting Schedule

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Planning Process

• October 2005 Dissemination of Oral Health
  Briefing Paper
• November 2005 Board authorizes implementation
  of three-year Oral Health Initiative
• December 2005 Release of Oral Health Request
  for Proposals
• March 2006 Board approves Initiative Grant
  Projects
• April 2006 Initiative begins

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Initiative Components

• Grant making
• Policy formation and advocacy
• Public education and strategic communications
• Evaluation

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Initiative Objectives

• Service Expansion Address unmet oral health
  needs through expanded access (both prevention
  and treatment options).
• Delivery System Create a more responsive system
  of care for oral health by enhancing delivery
  options and increasing care coordination among
  oral health and general health.
• Advocacy and System Reform Address systemic
  barriers in the delivery and financing of oral
  health services through advocacy and policy.
• Education and Communication Increase
  understanding and recognition of the importance
  of oral health among consumers, the general
  public, and policy makers.

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Implementation Activities

• Launching the Initiative
• Meeting with Advisory Committee
• Selecting an evaluator
• Developing grant monitoring protocols and systems
• Identifying leveraging opportunities

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Advisory Committee Role and Responsibilities

• Provide advice on Initiative implementation
• Provide feedback and suggestions to ensure that
  Initiative meets its objectives
• Service expansion
• Delivery system
• Advocacy and system reform
• Education and communication
• Provide guidance on Initiatives priority funding
  areas

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OHI Funded Projects

• Eight projects -- 680,000 approved to date
• Six implementation
• Two planning
• Organizing method
• 5 collaboratives
• 3 single agency
• 2 of these have extensive partnerships
• Grants in all five counties

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OHI Funded Projects

• Priority Areas
• Access to Care 6
• Delivery System 4
• Education and Health Promotion 5
• Policy and Advocacy 3
• Provider Training 5

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OHI Funded Projects

• Target Population
• 3 focus on children
• 2 focus on adult, children and elderly
• 1 focuses on pregnant women
• 1 focuses on seniors
• 1 focuses on special needs populations

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Strategic Discussion Policy and Advocacy

• What are the identified policy changes that the
  Initiative should pursue?
• How can the OHI funded projects and the
  information gathered from them be used to inform
  and educate policy makers about the importance of
  oral health?
• How can the Initiative be designed to promote
  policy change in the area of oral health?
• What level of government should the policy change
  and advocacy efforts focus on?
• How can the Initiative be designed to promote a
  better integration of oral health services with
  medical services?

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Strategic Discussion Public Education and
Strategic Communications

• Determining the message
• Identifying the components of a public education
  and communications strategy
• Identifying intended audiences
• Connecting education/communications activities
  with policy and advocacy work

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Grantee Monitoring

• Reporting
• Data Collection Template
• Teleconferences/Meetings
• Site Visits

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Strategic Discussion - Evaluation

• Whether the Initiatives objectives were met
• Whether grantees achieved their outcomes
• Whether funded projects can be replicated and
  under what conditions
• What conditions are needed to sustain funded
  programs
• Ascertain the Foundations ability in launching
  and managing the Initiative

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Strategic Discussion Evaluation Components

• Formative and summative components
• Quantitative (i.e., outcome) and qualitative
  (i.e., process) evaluation,
• Evaluation instrument and methodology (i.e., data
  elements, data collection and analysis) this
  may differ for grantees that received planning
  grants and those that received implementation
  grants
• Mechanisms to assess grantee interventions,
  intermediate outcomes (during life of grant) and
  long range impact
• Technical assistance to grantees in participating
  in evaluation

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Strategic Discussion Selecting Evaluator

• Received proposals from two evaluators
• SRI International
• Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF
• Meeting with both prospective evaluators
• Goal is to have evaluator selected by end of
  April 2006

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OHI and Intersection with Other Efforts

• Current efforts by philanthropic entities,
  government and community-based organizations to
  improve dental health services.
• In general, the activities focus on prevention,
  access and workforce development.
• The focus of these activities is
  disproportionately on children.

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OHI and Intersection with Other Efforts

• Prevention Activities
• Oral Health Education and Training Project (First
  5 California)
• Childrens Dental Disease Prevention Program
  (State Department of Health Services)
• Access to Care Activities
• Insurance-based Oral Health Demonstration Project
  (California MRMIB)
• Oral health Access Initiative (Dental Health
  Foundation)
• Workforce Activities
• California Dental Pipeline Program (The
  California Endowment)
• TSFF monitoring these efforts and working with
  funders/project teams to determine synergies