The Teeth Tales study launched a ten year partnership that worked to promote child oral health for culturally diverse communities in Australia. Partnerships with health, government, community members and cultural organizations were established to ensure the intervention was feasible, sustainable, and culturally relevant. The CBPR model was used as an evaluation tool for the Teeth Tales partners to reflect on their study’s participatory processes and outcomes, using locally-relevant terminology. The model was primarily useful as it was a way to help others understand what the team had worked through and achieved together. This was important to the study partners as it helped promote their participatory approach, share new knowledge, and disseminate their project outcomes. Their model is consistently presented in public forums and elsewhere to describe their project. The project lead recommends use of the CBPR Model at key stages of the project as it can lead to greater clarity in understanding complex, community-based studies and it contributed to their evaluation and representation of their study.
