The University of Utah and International Rescue Committee have come together to create a program to provide ongoing dental health for newly relocated refugees. While most free dental services are limited for refugees, the university and the IRC are taking steps to ensure that the patients, seen by third and fourth year students, schedule their own appointments and maintain their continued dental healthcare. The IRC counsels the dental students on how to communicate and treat the refugees. The university works with the refugees to figure out how to get to the clinic and receive the care they need.

This thoughtful approach has a deeper and more lasting effect on all those involved; students become experienced professionals with the humanitarian gifts they need to be successful healthcare providers and refugees attain skills to be self sufficient in a new community within a new country; definitely a win-win solution that inspires a Glad To Be Here feeling in us.