2007 Grant Recipients

Forty-nine organizations submitted proposals to the CDA Foundation Grant Program during the August 31, 2007 funding cycle. The Grant Selection Committee reviewed proposals and selected the following organizations as recipients of 2007 CDA Foundation Grants. We wish to congratulate:

1. Assistance League of Pomona Valley - (Pomona) This grant will provide complete dental care for uninsured children of working families in the Pomona Valley area who are not receiving public assistance and who have no other means for care.

2. Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) - (San Francisco) This grant will help CARECEN to provide low-cost dental services to 2,000 of its area’s primarily Latino population.

3. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) - (Los Angeles) This grant helps fund CHLA eHealth Teledentistry Program that utilizes technology to help reduce oral health disparities and facilitate pediatric sub-specialty treatment and referrals for the underserved children in rural areas of LA and Tulare Counties.

4. La Amistad De Jose Family Health Center, St. Joseph Hospital of Orange - (Orange) This grant funding supports the expansion of dental services, which include dental screenings and oral health education to 420 children and will provide urgent dental treatment to 200 of those children identified through the screenings.

5. La Clinica de Tolosa - (Paso Robles) This grant will help cover La Clinica de Tolosa’s non-reimbursed costs of 500 plus dental visits for underserved children in the Paso Robles area.

6. Mission City Community Network - (North Hills) This grant helps the clinic extend its low-income and no-cost dental hours from 24 to 32 hours per week, resulting in basic and preventive dental services to an additional 1,040 patients.

7. Sacramento District Dental Foundation - (Sacramento) This grant funding helps to support Smiles For Kids (SFK), a screening, treatment and follow-up care program that partners with area schools, community organizations and Sacramento District Dental Society member dentists to provide dental services to the uninsured children in the greater Sacramento area.

8. UCSD Student-Run Free Clinic - (San Diego) This grant funding supports the purchase of much- needed dental equipment for the Downtown Clinic which will keep the clinic open, improve current patient care, and sustain and increase the number of patients seen.

9. University of Southern California (USC) - School of Dentistry - (Los Angeles) This grant helps support the “Back to Work” Prosthesis for Homeless Persons that includes dental prosthetic appliances to replace missing front teeth for up to 100 homeless individuals who have completed a rehabilitation program and are actively seeking employment. The USC - Union Rescue Mission Dental Clinic will also distribute 10,000 oral hygiene kits to collaborating homeless service agencies.