While I'm a software developer, my interests extend well outside the IDE's edit window. Cincinnati is a city with a declining central population and real poverty and health problems. Various governmental and private non-profit services exist to serve the community, but they are not well known. Nor are they well appreciated. I think that while the United Way helps with fund raising for these services, it also hides them from our view.
This lense is my attempt to make these services more visible.
Greater Cincinnati Oral Health Council
Dental Care for the Underserved
The Greater Cincinnati Oral Health Council began in 1909 to provide dental care to the underserved. It operates the McMicken Dental Center for the Homeless in Over-The-Rhine; the Lincoln Heights Regional Dental Center; a mobile dental office that visits Cincinnati Public Schools; a school-based dental sealant program in 7 Ohio counties; and Dental Options/Donated Dental Services, a program using volunteer dentists to serve those without dental insurance who are disabled or have health conditions. The organization provides dental care to more than 15,000 people a year in the Tri-State. For more information contact GCOHC at 513-621-0248.
Links of Interest to Public Health in Cincinnati
Check these out!
- Cincinnati's Oral Health Crisis
- A report on oral health issues in Greater Cincinnati with data, recommendations and information about the importance of dental public health.
- State of the Community Report 2005
- Several agencies and the University of Cincinnati funded and completed this report on various social services and public health needs in the Tri-State.
- Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati
- The Health Foundation website features a number of good publications, many local, detailing specific public health issues in the community.
- Cincinnati Public Health Department
- Cincinnati's public health department on the web.
General Cincinnati Non-Profit & Charity News
News bits from Cincinnati
SORTA, the Southern Ohio Regional Transit Authority, plans to start a charity in 2006 "Everybody Rides Metro". It would be the first of its kind to help pay for metro passes for poor people. See the story in the 18 December 2005 Cincinnati Enquirer. SORTA on the Web: http://www.sorta.com/
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