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National: This investment supports the School-Based Health Alliance (SBHA) as they provide the backbone assistance to the emerging school oral health learning community and the school districts, leading to greater innovation, action, and change in strengthening and advancing oral health in school settings. Specifically, SBHA will continue to develop and expand the learning space created in Year 2 and facilitate the greater collaborative relationships among the school-based oral health partners in the learning community group. In addition, SBHA will disseminate both newly developed and existing resources to support, strengthen, and grow the school oral health network; develop data collection and outcome measures specific to school oral health; and explore funding and sustainability strategies that support school oral health programs. The project has the potential to support improvement across all four systems, and will help achieve the Oral Health 2020 goal of incorporating oral health into primary education system and the target of having 10 largest school districts incorporate oral health into their systems. $365,421 will be used to support staff time, consultant services, travel and meeting expenses, office operations, and other indirect costs associated with the implementation of this project.