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Contents on this page:

  • Resourceful links
  • Parent Training Workshop
  • Health Care from WA State Dept of Health
  • Transition Resources

Resourceful Links:

Parent Training Workshop:

Health Care

The Washington State Department of Health has new oral health prevention materials on our web site that may of use to your clients. Feel free to use these links. All materials can be downloaded in color or black & white.

Oral Health promotion materials:

  • Oral health for infants and children may be used by all health professionals and community programs.
    http://doh.wa.gov/cfh/oralhealth/education/promocards.htm

For children with special health care needs:

  • 17% of children in Washington State have a special need; half of these children have mild-moderate special needs.
  • Many individuals with special needs do not have access to regular and ongoing dental care.

Fact sheets for mild to moderate manifestations of a number of special needs conditions. To help parents and caregivers access dental care.

  • http://dental.washington.edu/departments/oral-medicine/special-needs-fact-sheets.html

We are thrilled that you are helping to educate parents and caregivers on oral health. If you have any questions feel free to contact me at:

  • Joella Pyatt, RDH, BS, Oral Health Promotion and Tobacco Cessation Coordinator
    Washington State Department of Health
    Phone: 360-236-3518
    Email: Joella.pyatt@doh.wa.gov

 

Transition Resources

Below are four separate "notebooks" about adolescent health transition. As you can see they are quite small and of course don't contain all the information in the Washington version but I have been getting good feedback about the usefulness of them. Youth at the Center for Children with Special Needs are reviewing them now and will let me know the format they want them in so they can fill out the checklists and other pages. Feel free to put these links on your websites and distribute as much as you would like. They are on the DOH Health Education Resource Exchange (H.E.R.E) website, but I haven't quite figure out how to find them. Let me know if you want to link directly to that site and I will ask how that can be done.