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Critical Issue — Children’s Dental Health

October 24, 2012 by George Reed, Former Executive Director

I’ve got critical issue overload. How about you? So probably the last thing you want to hear about is one more issue that really needs to be on our radar screens but isn’t.

But here it is – dental care for children, especially for children who live in or near poverty.

Last Sunday, Kathy Higgins presented a Focus during the worship service at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church. Pullen is one of the Council’s member congregations and is also the congregation of which I am a member. Kathy, who attends Pullen regularly, is the President of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC Foundation. She challenged us to recognize the real needs that are present right here in our state. And she did it in the context of how we manage to find funds for what is important to us. Read her remarks here.

The first step we need to take is to be more aware and to make others more aware. Unless you work with children in low-income families or live yourself with low income or are a dental professional, I’m guessing there is information in Kathy’s Focus that you didn’t know. So tell others, and keep this issue on your radar screen.

–George Reed, Executive Director

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Children & Youth, Economic Justice, Health

About George Reed, Former Executive Director

As I had hoped, I have spent more time reading books in my retirement. One recent read was Jon Meacham’s splendid biography of Thomas Jefferson. I resonated with something TJ wrote in a letter shortly after leaving the White House in 1809: “I am here [at Monticello] enjoying the ineffable luxury of being owner of my own time.” I can’t say that I am complete owner of my time, but I am really enjoying not being controlled by clock and calendar. Well, except when there’s a deadline for Raleigh Report.

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