What?

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The program's goals are:

• Training health practitioners to competently manage all aspects of oral health care
• Training health care providers to work inter-professionally to advance the best health outcomes for their HIV patients

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Who?

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We provide trainings to dentists, dental hygienists, dental assistants and other clinical health providers in all practice settings including private practices, community health centers, hospital and long-term care.

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Where?

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We are able to provide in-person training at your organization, at one of our training sites, or on-line. Learn more by exploring our resources:

• Assessment Card for Primary Care Providers
• Course offerings
• Consumer Brochure: Importance of Oral Health in People Living with HIV

For more information, please contact:

• Howard Lavigne, Program Director (howard.lavigne2@gmail.com / 315-247-2998)
• Laura O’Shea, Project Coordinator (laura.oshea@health.ny.gov / 315-477-8124)

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How?

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Coordinators from eight of our regional partner sites participated in a 13-week practice facilitation training program. The trained coaches are the primary resource for the region’s PT program. Since practice transformation is highly impacted by state, local and regional policies, the coaches’ knowledge of their communities greatly enhances their ability to facilitate practice change. Each coach has developed a longitudinal relationship with their practice transformation site that includes in-depth need assessments and meetings with interdisciplinary teams of health care providers and clinic leadership on a regular basis. The clinic leadership, with the assistance of the PT coach, identified practice transformation goals for their site. The coach is responsible for coordinating TA and training requests to meet the identified goals, maintaining ongoing communication, and facilitating data collection to evaluate outcomes along the Continuum. For more information, please contact:

• Howard Lavigne, Program Director (howard.lavigne2@gmail.com / 315-247-2998)

• Laura O’Shea, Project Coordinator (laura.oshea@health.ny.gov / 315-477-8124)

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Virtual Learning

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Explore our webinars:

• Video Part 1: Head and Neck Exam for Healthcare Providers
• Video Part 2: Identification of Oral Anatomical Structures Often Misdiagnosed as Pathology
• Caries Risk Assessment
• Management and Identification of oral lesions in HIV
• Oral Health Considerations for the Primary Care Team
• Substance Use and Oral Health
• Coming back to work & COVID-19: Considerations in Dental Practice
• COVID-19: Patient and Provider Challenges

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