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Oral Health and Social
Determinants of Health
Oral Health 2022
Oral Workshop Project of 2022
CHWCMR developed 6 workshops focused on the indigenous communities with the participation of 90 participants in 7 Mesoamerican languages: Mixtec, Mam, Q'anjb'al, Triqui, Nahuatl, Garifuna, and Purepecha.
These virtual workshops were done by trusted members of the community and participant are from : Mount Vernon, Burlington, Federal Way, Prosser, Sunnyside, Pasco, Outlook, Grandview, Tukwila, Sedro Wooley, Marysville, Arlington, Everett, Lake Stevens, Kent, Burien, Bonney Lake, Benton, Snohomish, Kennewick, Tacoma, and Auburn.
We were able to print an provide 50 books to our participants as a educational tool.
50 books were printed as an educational tool to share and use the information in the schools and communities.
Social media campaign:
All our materials and activities were done and share by our CHWs and shared them in social media. Our success data for education and communication focused on oral health include:
Facebook: 1,000 clicks Facebook:
Mailchimp: 1,113 subscribers/ reach 2.0k
YouTube CHWCMR Chanel: 500 views
RADIO – Los Originales CHW Radio:
Alexa: Amazon: 100
Twitch: 100 followers
Twitter: 500 followers
LinkedIn: 300 followers
Oral Need Assessment 2021
CHWCMR conducts an Oral Needs Assessment to identify our community's needs for oral health and determine the severity of their needs and outline the type of information we need to address during our oral health training. A total of 91 participants were interviewed by phone in Spanish from the following places in Washington State: Tri-cities, Yakima County, Sedro Wooley, King County, Snohomish County, Mouth Vernon, Olympia, County of Pierce, Skagit County, and Renton. These are cities and counties with a high percentage of Latinx migrants and refugees.
The assessment consists of 56 questions about demographics, oral health practices, health habits, assistance with oral health practices from parents to children, and identification of barriers that participants face in receiving oral care. The interview takes one to three hours, and it depends on who responds to the assessment because many participants speak languages other than English or Spanish, such as Mixtico and Triquis. Some of our trilingual CHWs were able to translate to these participants. Eighteen CHWs reached out to their participants and facilitated the telephone interviews from March to June.
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2017-2020 Oral Health Workshops
During the last three years, CHWCMR conducted 36 oral workshops with a total of 784 participants living in rural and low-income communities in Washington State from 2017-2020.
Although we were affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020, we conduct a total of 4 virtual workshops statewide. A total of 87participant received preventive information about oral health by 2 CHWs who facilitate each workshop. We had to learn how to do our work virtually and we provide with computers and training to our CHWs to manage the virtual meeting.
Thanks to Arcora Foundation for helping us to improve the quality of oral health statewide.
© 2020 Community Health Worker Coalition for Migrants and Refugees (CHWCMR)