Community Needs Assessment & Site Selection (August 20, 2026)

Program Information

Mobile Health for Dental Care is a 12-part, monthly virtual learning series delivered through the Project ECHO tele-mentoring model as the inaugural program of the Global Mobile Medical Association's "Improving Community Health Outcomes through Mobile Care ECHO Program." The activity convenes clinicians, program leaders, and care-team members who operate — or are preparing to launch — mobile and portable dental programs in community, school-based, and safety-net settings. Mobile and portable dental programs are a powerful means of expanding access to oral health care for underserved populations, yet they frequently encounter operational, workforce, financial, and data-infrastructure challenges that determine whether a program can be sustained. This series addresses that practice gap by building participant capacity across the core domains of mobile dental program operations and by creating a peer community in which programs learn from one another's real-world experience.

Each monthly session follows the ECHO "all teach, all learn" format: a brief didactic presentation on a focused operational topic, followed by a real, de-identified case presented by a participating program and discussed collaboratively with subject-matter experts and peers. The opening session, Program Kickoff and Field Overview, orients participants to mobile dentistry as a care-delivery model — distinguishing portable, mobile-unit, and hybrid/tele-dentistry approaches; outlining the essential operating components of a program; and examining the common reasons new programs stall, illustrated through a real-world community health center case study. Over the full series, participants gain practical, transferable strategies to strengthen clinical workflow, workforce, community partnerships, quality measurement, care integration, and financial sustainability — with the shared goal of improving access to care and health outcomes in the communities they serve.

This activity meets from 12-1pm ET for a 1-hour presentation monthly. 

Target Audience

This activity is appropriate for the following audiences:

  • Dentists

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to do the following

  • Use publicly available data sources (HPSA, BRFSS, county-level Medicaid utilization) to identify priority service areas.
  • Apply a site-readiness rubric to score potential host sites.
  • Build a stakeholder map for a candidate community.
  • Identify red flags in partner-site MOUs.

Activity summary

Available credit: 
  • 1.00 ADA CERP
    Through Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at ADA.org/CERP.
  • 1.00 Participation Hour(s)
    You are able to download an unaccredited Participation Certificate for your records if you are not able to use any of the credit types provided for this activity or if this activity does not offer accredited CME/CE credits.
Activity opens: 
08/20/2026
Activity expires: 
07/30/2027
Part of: 
Mobile Health for Dental Care ECHO (2026-27)

Weitzman Institute Disclosure Statement

It is the policy of the Weitzman Institute to ensure that Continuing Education (CE) activities are independent and free of commercial bias. To ensure educational content is objective, balanced, and guarantee content presented is in the best interest of its learners' and the public, the Weitzman Institute requires that everyone in a position to control educational content disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months. An ineligible company is one whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Examples can be found at accme.org.

Faculty participating in a Weitzman Institute-sponsored activity must disclose to the planning committee and audience all financial or other relationship(s) with ineligible companies.

Dr. Karen Ashley is the Director of Education for the Weitzman Institute. She oversees all educational programming accredited by the Moses/Weitzman Health System.

Planners & Presenters

  • Adam Barefoot DMD, MPH, FICD. Chief Dental Officer for Mission Mobile Medical. Former Chief Dental Officer at HRSA. Former State Dental Director Georgia Department of Public Healt

Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Mission Mobile Medical and Moses/Weitzman Health System, Inc./Weitzman Institute. Moses/Weitzman Health System, Inc. is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credential Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

By completing this activity, you provide Moses/Weitzman Health System Inc. the permission to share completion data with the ACCME and the certifying board(s).

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Please note that continuing education credit requirements differ by state, jurisdiction, and licensing agency. It is your responsibility to confirm if your licensing/credentialing agency will accept the credits offered by this activity.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 ADA CERP
    Through Joint Accreditation, Moses/Weitzman Health Center, Inc./Weitzman Institute is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at ADA.org/CERP.
  • 1.00 Participation Hour(s)
    You are able to download an unaccredited Participation Certificate for your records if you are not able to use any of the credit types provided for this activity or if this activity does not offer accredited CME/CE credits.
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