The concept of mobile dental units using dentists hired by your company to provide on-sit dental screenings, treatment follow-up and on-going dental home services seems almost too good to be true...I look forward to assisting in this important new opportunity for our Head Start children.
Thank you all of your help. Without help from people like you, some of our children would never have the opportunity to have a dental check-up
On behalf of Higher Horizons Head Start, I would like to thank you all for the wonderful dental services you provided to our children. Your caring and gentle approach made this such a positive experience. Our students were talking about it all day...a special thank you for taking such good care of our children.
S.Bryan Wilson and Judy Jones accept award from Virginia Head Start Association representative, and S.E.M.D.S. customer, Darrell Edwards at their annual Spring Conference in Fredricksburg, Virginia.
The
Virginia Head Start Association honored Southeast Mobile Dental
Services with its annual Friend of Head Start Award on April 10 at
the conference. Darrell Edwards, Kids Central director,
described the plight of many programs not being able to meet
standards in the area of dental. "Then one day I got a call from
this guy telling me what he could do for us," Edwards explained.
"When he finished talking, I asked, 'Why aren't you on your way up
here?!" Though Edwards spoke from the perspective of an isolated
area with few services, many programs in the Association find
themselves in the same situation -- too few dentists to serve Head
Start children.
Enter Bryan Wilson, his assistant Judy Jones, and the Southeast
Mobile Dental Services program. SEMDS brings a dental van right on
site to Head Start programs, does the screenings, and comes back for
follow-up. Edwards reported that they have been to his program three
times this year. According to Judy Jones, they will visit each
program three times by the end of the school year. SEMDS understands
Head Start dental requirements and works to help programs meet these
goals.
Currently SEMDS serves 14 Virginia programs: Apple Country, Buchanan
County, Culpeper, Eastern Shore, Fairfax County, HOPE, Mountain CAP,
New River, Kids Central, Orange County, Rooftop, Scott County,
Shenandoah Valley and Skyline CAP. They also serve some VPI programs
Thank you, SEMDS. You
are truly a Friend Of Head Start!!
Reprinted from Virginia Head Start Association Web Site
