Finished Product

This new wrap is fantastic and better represents our target maket. Great job to all!

San Fran!

I (Kristin) recently had the opportunity to attend the Advanced Volunteer Management Institute in beautiful San Francisco! It was great to meet other volunteer managers from around the world, as well as learn ways I can better serve our wonderful Mobile Dental Van volunteers! Below are a few pictures from the trip:

This is me with Tony Goodrow, President of Volunteer2. Tony is somewhat of a celebrity here at the ODF! We began using his volunteer management software this spring, and have had a great response from our volunteers! If you haven’t created your volunteer profile yet, please go to http://www.okdf.org/ and click on "Volunteer." You’ll be glad you did!

Riding a cable car! All smiles....

...until I realized how steep the incline was on the way DOWN.

(Is it just me, or do I look like a cartoon character???) Very fun!

And finally, as a child of the 80's, this was one of the highlights of the sight-seeing portion of the trip….visiting the "Painted Ladies," the homes seen in the intro to “Full House”! (My enthusiasm apparently scared away the guy in the corner of the picture...oh well.) Be jealous. Be VERY jealous:I had fun and learned ALOT! Please feel free to contact me with feedback on how we can better serve you. Hope to see YOU on the van soon!

~Kristin

Email: kvineyard@okdf.org; Phone: 405.241.1299.

It's a wrap!

The Winnebago is getting a new look this week. The old wrap is coming off and a new, more colorful wrap is going on. It's very child-friendly and colorful. We're excited!!

Another satisfied customer

This little cutie was treated on the Mobile Dental Van in a rural town in Oklahom over the weekend. Her daddy spent the past year in Iraq and was glad to be back doing what once seemed like mundane tasks such as taking his children to the dentist. Thanks to Dr. Brian Coerver, hygienist D'Nay Rowsey, and dental assistant Alicia Wilson, 17 children received dental care in an underserved rural part of our state.

You are a gift!

Wow- where has two months gone? Well, let me tell you!

November started out in Garfield County, then up the road a bit to Cherokee. A couple of elementary schools in Oklahoma City, the Southwest Head Start Program in Altus and a visit to Coalgate finished up the month. December has included three days Riverside Indian School, a few more elementary schools, and the Head Start Program in Muskogee. Whew!

Today I'm traveling back up to Cherokee to finish up the month before we take a few weeks off from traveling to celebrate the holidays.

I hope you have a warm, blessed and joyful holiday. Thank you for the gift of your time and resources in 2008.

Super Heros

Is it just me, or does Hygienist Charles Brucklier look like Bob from The Incredibles?

Charles did an excellent job as usual coordinating our visit to one of the Indian Health Services sites. This time we went to Perkins for a couple of day. We'll be working together at quite a few sites in 2009. He really will be a superhero to folks who have limited access to dental care!

Volunteer Coordinator Kristin Vineyard is off to a good start. We're glad to have her!

Kristin is coordinating the partnership between the Mobile Dental Van, the ODA's Adopt-A-Dentist program, and Schools For Healthy Lifestyles. Literally hundreds of children will receive care thanks to this program. Kudos to everyone involved. Kristin can be reached at kvineyard@okdf.org if you have any volunteering questions.

Atoka and Coalgate - Yeah!

We had two successful days in Atoka and Coalgate recently. Thanks to these volunteers, we got a lot of work done at both sites!!!

Kyle McNatt DDS
Terie Chapman
Chasity Carper DDS
Penny Pannell RDH
Tracy Bates
Brian Coerver DDS
D'Nay Rowsey RDH
Kelly Short