National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center offers new resources

Washington鈥擳he National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center is offering two new free tip sheets and a new electronic guide.

A Way with Words: Guidelines for Writing Oral Health Materials for Audiences with Limited Literacy is a two-sided tip sheet that discusses how to choose words, set an appropriate tone and reach people with limited literacy. Also included are ideas for designing documents, guidelines for presenting unfamiliar terminology and a list of resources.

Dental Hygienists and Head Start: What You Should Know and How You Can Help is a four-page tip sheet, developed for Head Start program staff who want to share resources with dental hygienists, that contains an overview of the Head Start program; oral health status of enrolled children and barriers to care; and oral health services provided by Head Start. It also offers ideas for dental hygienists who want to get involved with Head Start as individuals or as members of their professional association.

These tip sheets can be downloaded at the OHRC Web site: www.mchoralhealth.org. Single or multiple copies are available at no charge from the Health Resources and Services Administration Information Center, P.O. Box 2910, Merrifield, Va. 22116; phone 1-888-ASK-HRSA; e-mail ask@hrsa.gov or online at www.ask.hrsa.gov.

Knowledge Path: Oral Health and Pregnant Women, Infants, Children, and Adolescents is an electronic guide that links to resources that analyze data, describe effective programs and report on policy and research aimed at improving oral health access and quality. Links to Web sites, electronic publications, journal articles, books reports and other print publications, databases, discussion groups and electronic newsletters are available at www.mchoralhealth.org/knwpathoralhealth.html.