Minnesota Oral Health Coalition
A strong oral health coalition can help Minnesota achieve its oral health goals.
A coalition is "an organization of diverse interest groups that combine their human and material resources to effect a specific change the members are unable to bring about independently." (Cheri Brown)
Under its cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Minnesota Oral Health Program provides support for the development of a statewide oral health coalition.
Minnesota Oral Health Coalition Election
The results are in for the Minnesota Oral Health Coalition elections for Board of Directors positions that took place in November.
The new board members and the membership categories they represent are:
- Julie Anderson, Medical Provider
- Suzanne Beatty, Higher Education
- Connie Bye, Education (Birth-12)
- Jeanne Edevold Larson, Community
- Forrest Flint, 3rd Party Payer
- Ann Johnson, Membership At-large
The new board members join the interim board that consists of
- Patrick Jacobwith, President
- Amos Deinard, Vice President
- Deb Jacobi, Secretary
- Sarah Wovcha, Nominating Committee Chair
- Rebecca Fahning, Membership Committee Chair
- Carl Ebert, Policy Committee Chair
- Merry Jo Thoele, Ex-Officio
Elections will be held for the expiring terms of the 1 year members in September of 2012 and then on a rotating basis.
The first full board conference call will be held Tuesday, January 17 at noon.
For more information contact President Patrick Jacobwith at pjacobwith@gmail.com.
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Weekly Conference Calls
The Executive Team members have weekly phone calls on Wednesday's at noon and Friday's at 11:00, these calls are open to all members of the coalition. If you would like to join in on these phone calls, please contact Patrick Jacobwith at patrickj@southernheightsdental.com for more information. Below is an agenda for these calls:
- 1. Call to order
- 2. Board Members present
- 3. Is there a Quorum? (Defined as a majority of the board members being present on the call. Three out of five is a quorum.)
- 4. Review/Adopt minutes from past meeting
- 5. Old Business
- 6. New Business
- 7. Open Time
- 8. Adjourn
Phone Call Record:
- Wednesday, November 9, 2011 Recorded call
- Wednesday, November 2, 2011
- Wednesday, October 26, 2011 (PDF 53KB/1 page)
- Wednesday, October 5, 2011 (PDF 88KB/1 page)
- Wednesday, September 28, 2011 (PDF 100KB/1 page)
- Wednesday, September 21, 2011 (PDF: 42KB/2 pages)
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Resources
POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS- Coalition Presentation (181KB)
- Coalition Meeting 3-18-11 (211KB)
- Coalition Task Charge (136KB)
- Coalition Past, Present and Future (211KB)
- Coalition Meeting Summary 12-2-11 (PDF: 46KB/13 pages)
- Coalition Packet 9-16-2011 (PDF: 496KB/12 pages)
- Coalition Packet 3-18-2011 (PDF: 557KB/30 pages)
- Coalition Meeting Summary (PDF: 95KB/3 pages)
- Coalition Participant List (PDF: 84KB/1 page)
- Transitional Task Force Members and Volunteer Roster (PDF: 176KB/1 page)
- Transitional Task Force Meeting Notes 5-27-11 (PDF: 94KB/3 pages)
- Transitional Task Force Meeting Notes 4-22-11 (PDF: 126KB/5 pages)