Special Invitation During CPCA Annual Conference

We are pleased to announce that CPCA’s continued partnership with the next phase of The California Endowment’s Dental Pipeline Project (PDF, 72K). As a result of this participation, California Primary Care Association (CPCA) member clinics will have the opportunity to both provide feedback into the process of placing dental residents in community health clinics as well as share in best practices for expanding these efforts across the state.

In an effort to begin this important work, I would like to extend and invitation for you to attend and invitation-only meeting that will occur during the CPCA conference. During this meeting, clinic leadership and dental providers will meet to begin identifying strategies for outreach to clinics, training and technical assistance topics, and other issues related to structuring clinic dental practices so that clinics can absorb and implement (both financially and operationally) this type of program into their practice. University representatives will also be present during this meeting.

This meeting will occur from 11:15 am – 12:15 pm on Thursday, October 4, 2007 in room 307 at the Sacramento Convention Center. This meeting immediately follows the workshop entitled “The Clinic as a Classroom: Building Partnerships to Transform Oral Capacity” and takes place in the same room location.  The meeting will convene, and then meeting participants will have time to join the rest of the conference participants in the ballroom for the scheduled lunchtime program.

If you plan to attend this meeting, please contact Christina Foncree at cfoncree@cpca.org or 916.440.8170 by Tuesday, October 2, 2007.

For more information on The California Endowment’s Pipeline project, I have included an attachment announcing the current project (PDF, 72K). If you have any additional questions or feedback, please feel free to contact me directly.

I look forward to meeting you all at the October 4th meeting.