Green Bay Reporter

A nonprofit organization dedicated to children’s oral health recently reopened, after the pandemic shutdown, with a new location and increased reach. 

An organization called Oral Health Partnership (OHP) is dedicated to helping make dentistry services available to schoolchildren who are otherwise unable to access them. 

OHP was able to open a new location recently along with their mobile van program to visit schools again this coming fall semester. The van was recently acquired during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

"I’ve had the opportunity to chat with the folks from Oral Health Partnership in the past, and I’ve continuously been impressed by their efforts and commitments to the youth of Brown County," Wisconsin State Senator Rob Cowles said in a post to his Twitter account on July 2.

Started by the Green Bay Downtown Rotary Club, OHP is a nonprofit organization with four brick-and-mortar locations and a thriving mobile program at area schools. The organization created "Healthy Teeth, Healthy Kids," a mobile, in-school dental clinic in 2005. OHP opened its first fixed-site dental clinic in 2007 at the Howe Resource Center and continued its growth in 2011 with the start of a dental clinic at the Salvation Army Kroc Center.

Thanks to a large donation in January 2017, OHP opened a third clinic, OHP West.