OPEN

Over the last decade, OPEN has successfully fueled a nationwide conversation among policymakers, providers, public health activists, and grassroots organizers who understand that today’s system of health care isn’t working for everyone, and that it’s time to work together to build a new reality. We know oral health is essential to overall health and well-being. That’s why OPEN has organized across the country to ensure that fact is widely understood and embraced. OPEN puts the power for change into the hands of people who share the same vision about every person’s right to a healthy life. OPEN seeks out diversity in membership and representation from community, state, and national levels, also referred to grassroots, grassmiddles and grasstops. The diversity of experiences, knowledge, and skills of OPEN members, coupled with a shared vision and purpose, create the opportunity for greater collective impact. Individually, we can make progress; together, we transform the world.