| Session date: |  |
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 |
| Starting time: | |
1:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00) |
| Duration: | |
1 hour |
| Presenters: | |
Achieva Live |
| Description: | |
Oral Health access is a problem for many populations, but for people with disabilities, challenges are significant. The webinar will feature presentations that look at the overarching and immediate issues people with disabilities face when trying to access care. The panel will include a discussion of the Affordable Care Act and other federal/state efforts and offer viable strategies that can be funded in the immediate future to provide this necessary healthcare.Moderator: Barbara Sieck Taylor Executive Director, Grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania
Panelist Include: Dr. Steven Perlman, President of the American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry Mary Anderson Hartley, Manager, ACHIEVA’s Disability Healthcare Initiative Lynne O’Hara, Executive Director, Special Hope Foundation Kristy Trautman, Executive Director, FISA Foundation This webinar is free and open to the public, and would be of special interest to funders as well as dental professionals, people with disabilities and their families, safety net providers, and advocates. Register online. |
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Oral Health Care for Persons with Developmental Disabilities 
Disability Funders Network is proud to be hosting this webinar to faciliatate this important conversation