HABIT Webinar: Looking at how early intervention is supporting early years oral health in Bradford.
Online learning session
This webinar will be useful for anyone working with young children and/or with an interest in children’s oral health.
Tuesday 3 December 2024
12.30pm - 1.30pm
Online
Do you work with young children? Are you interested in children’s oral health?
Free webinar focusing on the oral health of young children. Tuesday 3 December 2024 12.30pm-1.30pm
Hear about the HABIT intervention (Health Visitors Delivering Advice in Britain on Infant Toothbrushing) that supports health visiting teams to have consistent and effective oral health conversations with parents of young children. You will learn useful tips and about the resources available that can be used in early years settings, nurseries etc.
This webinar focuses on the oral health of young children. The HABIT intervention (Health Visitors Delivering Advice in Britain on Infant Toothbrushing) supports health visiting teams to have consistent and effective oral health conversations with parents of young children.
Guest Speakers:
• Peter Day, School of Dentistry, University of Leeds and Community Dental Service, Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
• Eleanor Forshaw, School of Dentistry, University of Leeds
• Edwina Lintin, Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home Visiting programme (MECSH) Implementation Lead, Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
• Rebecca Croston, Oral Health Champion
The webinar will cover:
- Oral health of young children
- Co-design of HABIT with parents & health visitors
- Results from a feasibility study
- Integrating HABIT into MECSH (Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home Visiting) programme
- Enhancing accessibility of HABIT resources
- Rollout of HABIT across Bradford health visiting services
- Development of an oral health champion role within the health visiting team to support the integration of oral health across early-years and dental services.
This event is for practitioners, volunteers and students in public, voluntary, education, arts and any other organisations who work with and support families with 0-3s.
HABIT is a Better Start Bradford funded research programme and this webinar is part of Better Start Bradford’s Sharing Knowledge, Shaping Futures legacy programme.
Event Contact details
You can contact the event organiser via the booking link.
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