In November 2016, Florida oral health stakeholders met to discuss how to work closer together and better coordinate our efforts, the result was a commitment to form the Florida State Alignment Network. 

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To become (more intentionally and formally) a statewide alignment network we shared commitments to:

• Raise oral health as a social justice, systemic issue

• Address social determinants impacting oral health

• Advocate for increasing access to oral health care

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Benefits of joining the state network include:

• Awareness of oral health initiatives, opportunities, and potential partners around the state

• Opportunity to coordinate with partners with different skills and capacity

• Shared learning

 

Areas of Focus:

• Increasing advocacy capacity

• Strengthening public communications

• Increasing oral health in school districts