All students in the Syracuse City School District will be receiving a free dental kit this week, including a toothbrush, toothpaste, and dental floss.
The dental kits are intended to promote healthy dental hygiene. Kits with adult sized toothbrushes will be available for middle and high school students, and smaller, youth sized toothbrushes will be available for elementary students. The kits were purchased by the Syracuse City School District and are a collaboration between SCSD, New York State Preferred Source Program for New Yorkers Who are Blind, and the Central Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (CABVI) of Utica/Syracuse – who assembled the kits.
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“Dental hygiene is critical in keeping our students healthy, and these kits will go a long way in encouraging healthy dental habits among our students,” Syracuse City School District Superintendent Anthony Q. Davis said. “We are hopeful that these kits will positively impact the health of our students by encouraging them to develop healthy dental habits each day, and we appreciate the team at CABVI who helped assemble these kits so they are ready for our students to use.”
Syracuse City School District families are also encouraged to enroll their children in School Based Health Centers, which offer dental, medical, and mental health care – with no out of pocket cost – to children attending Delaware, Dr. Weeks, Franklin, Grant, H.W. Smith, PSLA at Fowler, STEAM at Dr. King, and Syracuse STEM at Blodgett.
“The dental kit program with Syracuse Central School District is an excellent example of a community coming together to create greater good for one another,” CABVI VP of Products and Distribution Katie Eddy said. “We greatly appreciate SCSD’s support of the NYS Preferred Source Program and its commitment to CABVI’s social mission of providing vision health and wellness services and employment opportunities to New Yorkers who are blind.”
