The Marin Oral Health Program is led by Marin County Department of Health & Human Services, Division of Public Health working closely with the Marin Oral Health Steering Committee. The goal of the program is to improve the oral health of all in Marin through prevention, education, and community engagement.
About the Marin Oral Health Plan
The Local Oral Health Plan is a county-wide initiative to improve the oral health of Marin residents and achieve oral health equity in Marin. Through funding made available from Proposition 56, a tobacco tax, the California Department of Public Health awarded Marin County a five-year grant in 2018 to develop a Local Oral Health Program. The goal of this Program is to create a coordinated system of oral health care in Marin County.
The Program will include a stakeholder-driven process that includes the following objectives:
- Develop a needs assessment
- Create an improvement plan
- Implement evidence-based programs identified in the plan and evaluate these programs
- Develop prevention and healthcare guidelines that are integrated between oral health and overall healthcare
- Coordinate outreach and education that is integrated between oral health and overall healthcare
- Establish effective oral healthcare delivery and care coordination including workforce development
- Expand existing oral health networks
Marin Oral Health Strategic Plan Implementation
In 2018, the Oral Health Program received funding from the State to develop a local oral health plan. The plan is intended to provide oral health education, dental disease prevention and linkage to treatment and case management of dental disease including dental disease caused by the use of cigarettes and other tobacco products. The Marin Oral Health Program, working closely with the Marin Oral Health Advisory Committee, completed an mpleted an Oral Health Needs Assessment and an Oral Health Community Health Improvement Plan.
Oral Health Needs Assessment and Strategic Plan
Marin Oral Health Community Health Improvement Plan 2019
Steering Committee Partner Organizations
