CCOHF and Wrigley Company Foundation Oral Health Education and Program Promotion Opportunity

Since 2010, the Chicago Community Oral Health Forum (CCOHF) and the Wrigley Company Foundation have collaborated to bring oral health education and health promotion in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS).  The local reach of program has been tremendous.  The Wrigley Company Foundation and CCOHF would like to share in the success with other mid-sized cities with significant need for oral health education and promotion programming in a public school setting to students, teachers and parents.

CCOHF contracted with MDR, an educational development and marketing company with a track record of working with successfully with primary and secondary school teachers.  The resulting product is, a web-based series of modules based on a standardized curriculum developed by CCOHF, aligned with national standards and reformatted as an easy to use web-based resource.  This pilot phase of expansion reaches 5 cities: Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Richmond and San Antonio.

The teacher-friendly materials are found on totaltoothtruth.com and are geared to students in the 3-5 grades.  The modules utilize the hands-on portions of the CCOHF oral health education curriculum. In addition to the digitized curriculum, the program offers teachers an opportunity to have a guest speaker in their classroom to deliver an additional interactive presentation, question and answer, or an oral health education lesson and activity.

CCOHF Oral Health Education Expansion Info Sheet

For additional information, please contact me:

Mona Van Kanegan, DDS, MS | Director, Oral Health Program Development
Chicago Community Oral Health Forum (CCOHF) | A Partner of Heartland Health Outreach
Midwest AIDS Training and Education Center | University of Illinois Family Medicine Center
1100 W Cermak Ste 518
Chicago, Illinois 60608
Phone 13129690248
mvankanegan@heartlandalliance.org  | www.heartlandalliance.org/oralhealth/
Improving access, Promoting health, Preventing disease