Chatham County Safety Net Planning Council

Deliver healthcare for uninsured and underinsured individuals in Chatham County. In 2021, the Chatham County Safety Net Planning Council continued its reimagining oral health initiative to better understand the oral healthcare needs of citizens of Chatham County and develop recommendations to meet those needs. To address the recommendations of the steering committee, the Planning Council provided to citizens good oral health practice information, oral health hygiene kits, referals to local federally qulified health centers (fqhcs), j.c. lewis primary healthcare center, curtis v. cooper healthcare, savannanh techincal college hygiene clinic, coastal health distrcit, and savannah volunteer dental clinic, intervention services including exams, cleanings, extractions, and oral cancer screenings. In partnership with our oral health partner remote area medical-ram, the largest provider of free pop-up clinics in the u.s., local dentists, savannah technical college dental hygiene program, Georgia southern university speech and communication disorders program, local dentists, hygienists, and volunteers. The following was accomplished: 174 patients served, estimated cost of dental services, 77,513, 191 extractions, 39 fillings, 48 cleanings, 165 oral health cancer screening.

Deliver health care for uninsured and underinsured individuals in Chatham County.

The Planning Council continued to provide an array of Safety and resilience programs (skills and evidenced based programs) in our community including prevent suicide today (pst), applied suicide intervention skills training (asist), suicidetalk, question persuade, refer (qpr), mindful self- compassion (msc), front porch acts, tramua sentitive yoga (tsy), and commuity resiliency model (crm): 155 individuals completed 16 hours of applied suicide intervention skills training (asist) sessions, 3,348 individuals completed 30 minutes of suicide talk and/or qpr training including estimated 963 individuals completed a minute mindful self- compassion training; 447 children and youth participated in the front porch acts program, 359 adults received Safety and resilience training, including trauma sensitive interactions (tsi) and community resiliency model (crm);hosted trauma drama instructor training developed 17 facilitators and 6 instructors; hosted trauma sensitive yoga (tsy) facilitator training developing 16 tsy facilitators, and provided 208 tsy classes.