Dental Prevention and Clinical Support Centers Program

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Dental Prevention and Clinical Support Centers Program: The Indian Health Service (IHS) Division of Oral Health (DOH) requests competitive applications for funding of Dental Preventive and Clinical Support Centers (DPCSC) through a grant process. This program is authorized under the authority of the 25 U.S.C. 13, Snyder Act, and the 25 U.S.C. 1602(B) (21-26), Indian Health Care Improvement Act, and Public Health Service Act, Section 301 (a), as amended. This program is described at 93.933 in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance. Support centers will combine existing resources and infrastructure with IHS Headquarters (HQ) and IHS Area resources in order to address the broad challenges and opportunities associated with IHS preventive and clinical dental programs. 1.Centers will provide technical assistance and resources for local and Area clinic-based and community-based oral health promotion/disease prevention (HP/DP) initiatives. 2.Centers are strongly encouraged to provide technical assistance and resources for local and Area clinical programs. 3.Centers are encouraged to provide technical assistance and resources for regional and national preventive and clinical initiatives. 4.Centers will send one or more representatives to national support centers project meetings convened by IHS HQ DOH. Such meetings will be held no more than annually. All centers are expected to reserve sufficient funds in annual budgets to send a representative to these meetings. 5. Centers will promote the coordination of research, demonstration projects, and studies relating to the causes, diagnosis, treatment, control, and prevention of oral disease. This will be addressed through the collection, analysis, and dissemination of data, or other basic research methodology deemed appropriate by the grantee and the IHS.