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Understanding the Impact of Florida’s Medicaid Pre-Paid Dental Pilot
In 2004, the Florida legislature approved a two-year managed care pilot for oral health services provided under Medicaid. The Medicaid Pre-Paid Dental Pilot, limited to Miami-Dade County, ended in August of 2006. The Collins Center for Public Policy commissioned an analysis from the College of Dental Medicine at Columbia University to provide policymakers with the best available evidence regarding the Pilot’s successes and failures compared with the pre-existing, State-managed dental Medicaid program for children. Columbia University’s analysis reports on value, the benefit to the state in terms of quality of care for Medicaid dollars expended.
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Dr. Henrie Treadwell Delivers Poignant Speech to the Male Responsibility Network in Denver Colorado
As an invited guest to the Title X annual Male Reproductive Health Conference & Training recently held at the Adams Mark Hotel, Denver CO (May 3-5, 2006), Dr. Treadwell delivered a talk entitled 'Male Reproductive health: How far have we come? Where are we really?'. To view a transcript of her message, which details the journey of the Men's Health movement and profiles avenues to build sustainability, please click for more information.
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Dental Feasibility Study Release - May 16, 2006, Washington, DC. - DOWNLOAD AN ADVANCE COPY OF THE REPORT!
 Please join us for the public release of a special report entitled Bridging the Gap: Partnerships between Dental Schools and Colleges to Produce a Workforce to Fully Serve America’s Diverse Communities. The Community Voices: Health Care for the Underserved initiative, motivated by continuing disparities in oral health and access to care opportunities, has charged a study committee comprised of representatives from the educational community to determine strategies that may serve as additional options in increasing the presence of underrepresented minorities in the dental profession. The committee has completed its report and we welcome your attendance at this important public briefing.
For more information, please contact Sharra Triplett at 404.756.8915 or via email at striplett@msm.edu.
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Prisoner Re-entry Action Agenda Meeting - May 31, 2006, Atlanta, GA
Community Voices will be hosting a strategy planning session to address relevant health concerns among prisoners and ex-offenders seeking community re-entry. At this session, participants will discuss targeted dissemination approaches of the executive summary generated from the March 17th Prisoner Re-entry meeting held in Washington, DC. This recent meeting, co-sponsored by Community Voices: Healthcare for the Underserved and the National Association of State Health Policymakers, convened key stake holders to derive oral, behavioral and mental health solutions for prisoners facing community re-entry.
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Community Voices Miami Expert Comments on Miami Dental Care Pilot Program
The Miami Herald on February 18 reported that a "once-heralded state plan to bring dental care to poor children may be resulting in considerably less care." The the state stopped fee-for-service treatment and turned over all dental care for poor kids in Miami-Dade to a Coral Gables firm, Atlantic Dental. Incomplete state reports indicate Atlantic Dental dentists did only one-third of the checkups conducted in the last year of the old fee-forservice program. Oral Health expert Elise Linder of the Collins Center for Public Policy, home of Community Voices Miami, warns that "this incomplete data may be misleading, but she and others are watching the program closely because it involved one of the Jeb Bush administration's first moves to privatize the troubled Medicaid system."
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The US Health Care System: First Person Perspectives
Immigrants in California continue to face a large number of health challenges. Oakland Community Voices is working to leave no immigrant regardless of his or her immigration status behind. As part of its men's health program, Oakland Community Voices shares poignant first person perspectives from men whose lives it has impacted.
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Tobacco-Free Campuses: Practice and Policy Drive Each Other
FirstHealth of the Carolinas is leading in the way in tobacco cessation in North Carolina by prohibiting smoking on its campuses. Smoking has long been banned in FirstHealth hospitals, but was tolerated on the grounds and in parking lots. Now, FirstHealth is implementing the same advice it regularly gives to schools and businesses: become 100% tobacco-free.
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Community-based dental education
FirstHealth of the Carolinas spotlights its Dental Care Centers, where underserved populations can access oral health care and dental students can experience the challenges of working in community clinics.
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Dr. Henrie Treadwell receives ADEA Presidential Citation
 Community Voices Director, Dr. Henrie Treadwell, receives a Presidential Citation from the American Dental Education Association. Treadwell has long been an advocate for expanding dental health care and coverage to the nation's underserved, underinsured and uninsured populations.
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Community Voices: Speaking Out
Community Voices: Healthcare for the Underserved is a group of national, community-based demonstration projects seeking to develop programs that actually improve the accessibility of people to quality health care, based on real-life demonstrations of what does and can work.We believe that practical examples of service models that reach people are better guides for public and private policy decision-makers than solutions that have not been tested on the ground in communities where real people live, work and seek full service health care that includes oral health care, mental health and substance abuse treatment.We have learned that people have needs for non-fragmented care and that our current system of care does not adequately serve the poor and underinsured. As a result, care for the uninsured and underserved is viewed as a luxury and a privilege rather than as a right.We want to help change this viewpoint, which is a reality in the lives of too many in our nation.
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