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KENTUCKY....
Speaking at the Pike County Health Department Wednesday, Governor Steve Beshear announced two rounds of federal grant funding aimed at improving dental health for children in eastern Kentucky. The grants, totaling more than $200,000, will allow 24 counties to create community coalitions to assure access to needed dental treatment and to develop partnerships needed to help assure that dental providers and services are available. The first series of grants being awarded through the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Kentucky Oral Health Program in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services will provide $10,000 in start-up funding for oral health community coalitions in the counties of Estill, Floyd, Hart, Johnson, Knox, Lawrence, Lewis, Magoffin, Menifee, Metcalfe, Monroe, Robertson and Whitley. The second series of grant awards is funded through Health Resources and Services Administration's Targeted State MCH Oral Health Services Systems program, which supports the state's capacity to expand preventive and restorative oral health service programs for Medicaid and KCHIP eligible children, as well as other underserved children and families. The following grantees will receive $10,000 of TOHSS seed funding: Boyd, Franklin, Jefferson, Jessamine, Logan, Madison, Marshall, Pike and Woodford counties, as well as the Madisonville area and the Purchase District Health Department.