NNOHA has identified common characteristics of Health Centers that successfully integrate oral health care and primary care practice. It is important that CHCs conduct thorough planning and identify their readiness for an integration project. This document serves to assist CHCs in identifying their readiness for integrating oral health and primary care practice.

This NNOHA toolkit provides guidance on new start-ups for direct dental services. The toolkit is a collection of resources from NNOHA and outside organizations.

This resource was supported by NNOHA's HRSA National Training and Technical Assistance Partnership.

NNOHA is working to measure the impact on oral health services when the medical team receives training in oral health core competencies.

This resource was supported by NNOHA's HRSA National Training and Technical Assistance Partnership.

This publication provides guidance on how to implement a behavioral health and oral health integration program. The User's Guide includes a description of NNOHA's systems-based framework for behavioral health integration, promising practices from community health centers, and workflow examples. There is also a readiness assessment to help community health centers determine their level of preparedness to implement a behavioral health integration program.

This resource was supported by NNOHA's HRSA National Training and Technical Assistance Partnership.

In 2005, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) supported a pilot study for an Oral Health Disparities Collaborative. The pilot ran from 2005-2006 within four Community Health Centers, with the aim of developing comprehensive oral health care system change, based upon the Planned Care model and evidence-based concepts to generate improvements in measures for Early Childhood Caries prevention and treatment and Perinatal oral health.

This action guide explains the characteristics and organizational factors of pre-identified early adopter Health Centers that facilitated medical-dental integration and the establishment of the Patient-Centered Health Home, along with barriers that hinder this achievement.

This manual is designed to help dental clinic staff with all aspects of clinic development and ongoing operations. Chapter topics include partnerships and planning, facility design and staffing, financing, clinic operations, quality improvement, and program sustainability. Links to sample policies, efficiency tips, professional standards, supply lists, floor plans, design tips, equipment photographs, customizable budget worksheets, funding strategies, quality improvement plans, fact sheets, and websites are included. Updates to the Web site’s contents are made continually. Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. Written by Ohio Department of Health, Bureau of Oral Health Services, U.S. Indian Health Service, and Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors.

This Issue Brief is intended to help state and territorial oral health programs, Health Centers, funders, policy makers, and other stakeholders recognize and support opportunities for collaboration between SOHPs and Health Centers.

This checklist assists health centers in determining if contracting is an appropriate strategy and for planning and implementing contracting.

This resource was supported by NNOHA's HRSA National Training and Technical Assistance Partnership.

This implementation guide includes promising practices from interviews with health centers that are sustainably contracting for dental services. 

This resource was supported by NNOHA's HRSA National Training and Technical Assistance Partnership.

Integration of oral health and primary care practice is a strategy to increase access and improve health outcomes. There is an emergence of a new and alternative model, embedding a dental provider in the medical clinic. This document summarizes the results of the 2019 NNOHA Integrated Models survey and the subsequent focus group findings.

This promising practice describes the Children’s Hospital Boston and St. Joseph Hospital’s clinical protocol, implemented to manage early childhood caries in children younger than 60 months of age using a chronic disease management approach.

This publication updates NNOHA's previous white paper on academic partnerships. Partnerships between academic institutions and community health centers can be a useful strategy to enhance the recruitment and retention of oral health professionals. This publication includes strategies, recommendations, and promising practices from community health centers across the country.

This resource was supported by NNOHA's HRSA National Training and Technical Assistance Partnership.

This handbook by CDHP provides background on how contracting works, includes a model contract, and offers step-by-step options for implementation.

This 2012 white paper, prepared to support the work of the Funders Oral Health Policy Group by Qualis Health, presents case studies of four Community Health Centers that have taken steps to have medical and dental delivery systems work more closely together and to incorporate oral health in their quality improvement processes. Drawing on insights from these case studies as well as national literature on this subject, this paper identifies key lessons learned.