Common Contracts
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Produced by the Cuyahoga County Board of Health with funding provided through a contract with the Bureau of Oral Health Services,June 20th, 2006
In 2001, the Head Start Bureau (HSB) and the Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) entered into an Intra-Agency Agreement (IAA) in an effort to be responsive to the needs of Head Start and Early Head Start (HS/EHS) grantees in meeting the requirements of the Head Start Program Performance Standards in the areas of oral health prevention, early intervention, and treatment. A 1995 report by Edlestein and Douglass concludes that 80% of the tooth decay in childhood occurs in just 25% of the children, many of whom are in the low-income families served by HS/EHS (Louie, 2004). Data from a 2001 Iowa Head Start Early Childhood Survey indicated that the unmet dental health needs of young children were second only to unmet mental health needs in the State (Louie, 2004). According to the survey, the reasons children were unable to receive dental services in Iowa included: parental “refusal” (29.6%), missed appointments (21.4%), dentists not accepting new Title XIX patients (16.5%) or not accept
