Susanne J. LaVallee

Susanne J. LaVallee is the Founder and President/Director of MDHO. She attended Southern Vermont College and Plymouth State College before graduating from Northeastern University - Forsyth Dental Hygiene School in 1982. She has been licensed and practiced dental hygiene in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Utah, Colorado, and Maine. She is licensed in the administration of local anesthesia in Utah and Maine. Before Maine Dental Health Out-Reach, Inc. was established Susanne worked full-time for 20 years in private practice.

In 2005, Susanne was appointed by Governor Baldacci to sit on the Maine Board of Dental Examiners. She is a member of the North East Regional Board of Dental Examiners, The American Dental Hygienists' Association as well as the Maine Dental Hygienists' Association.

Tracy Crocker

Tracy is a life long resident of Maine. She attended the Gardiner School System and went on to attend and graduate from Westbrook College receiving her certificate in dental hygiene and Associates in Science in 1991. She has continued to work in private practice.

Tracy is very involved with her children's curricular and extra curricular activities. She enjoys gardening, the outdoors and decorating.

She became aware of MDHOI after receiving a school flyer brought home by her daughter. That was all it took for her to contact our program and inquire as to whether we needed any help. Tracy has been helping us ever since then.

We are blessed to have her working with MDHOI.

Lisa Boulet

Lisa is a life long resident of Maine.   She grew up in Greene where she still resides.  She is a 1985 graduate of Leavitt Area High School and went on to attend and graduate from Westbrook College in Portland, Maine in 1987 with as Associate Degree in Dental Hygiene.

Her hobbies are scrap booking and beaching it with her husband, Steve and kids, Kaleb (15) and Madyson (7) as well as taking care of her pet dogs Molly and Rosy!

Hania Benson

Hania was born in Torun, Poland. She moved to the United States when she was 12 years old. She received her license from the Dental Hygiene School at Orlando, Florida's Valencia College in 2000. She and her husband came to ski
in Maine with their, then 5 year old daughter, during Christmas of 2005. They both fell in love with Maine and less than six months later had moved to the Augusta area.

Hania works with Tracy Crocker in private practice. This is how she found out about this wonderful Out-Reach program and quickly contacted Susanne to see if she could help in any way. Hania is dedicated to helping all Maine residents receive the best oral hygiene care she can provide and is thankful that the Tooth Angels program is there for Maine children.

Sherry Laliberte

Sherry Laliberte moved to Monmouth from Lewiston in 1986. She graduated from Monmouth Academy in 1990 then went on to attend Westbrook College and graduated in 1993. She worked part time in Pediatric Dentistry from 1993-1994 while working on her bachelor's degree. In 1994 she started working full time at Just For Kids Pediatric Dentistry, with Dr. Stephen Mills.

Sherry has a son age 11 and a daughter age 4 which are both involved in many activities. She tries to be at their activities as much as possible. Sherry is married to Scott Laliberte who is a State of Maine crisis worker for the Department of Mental Retardation. She loves her family, her two dogs and her dental hygiene career.

Donna Johnson

Donna has worked for the State of Maine from 1994-2007 holding the following positions:

Clerical- Food Stamps/AFDC (TANF) Clerical- Disability Determination Services Clerical- Child Protective Clerical- Support Enforcement Clerical- Environmental Services/DOT Clerical- Workers Compensation Construction- Environmental Services MaineCare Billing Specialist- MaineCare (Medicaid) MaineCare Provider Relations Specialist- MaineCare (Medicaid) MaineCare Provider Relations Specialist Supervisor- MaineCare (Medicaid)

While employed at MaineCare,
She chaired the following committees:

• Dental
• Native American
• Physician
• Hospital

Donna attended weekly meetings for the MaineCare office regarding the WELFRE/MeCMS system, the functionality, and proposals for progress.

She has compiled requested and required information to speak on behalf of MaineCare in front of large audiences throughout the State of Maine.

Currently Donna is working for Don's Electric and Susanne LaVallee providing administrative assistance and attending college.

Chet LaVallee

Chet LaVallee is the father in law of Susanne J. LaVallee the President
and Director of MDHO. He has been a volunteer assistant to Susanne since 2003 in various duties as they relate to her business in serving the children who qualify under the Medicaid program.

In 2005 MDHO , a charitable organization, became a reality and Chet was elected by the directors as Secretary/Treasurer and continues to serve in that capacity.

Chet, a life long Winthrop resident, graduated from Winthrop High School and Gates Business College (now closed) in Augusta. The first job after college was in the accounting department at EBASCO SERVICES located at two Rector Street in New York city.

As the old saying goes,"You can take the boy from the country but not the country from the boy," so Chet came back to his roots.

Returning to Maine he worked for the State and then a local business in Winthrop both of which were very educational and stepping stones to the future.

Following the above an opportunity presented Itself to work for Depositors Trust Company (Now Key Bank) in Augusta.

He worked a very short time in bookkeeping and was then transferred to the trust department. Work assigned to him were trust, agencies and guardian accounts. At a later date he became the estate administrator. This all encompassed twenty eight years with the bank when Chet took his first retirement. At that time he was a trust officer and assistant vice president. Two months later Chet was called back to the Trust Department where he worked for another twelve years for a total of forty years. So much for his second retirement. At 86 the third retirement is somewhere in the future.

To sum up his working years Chet remarks "It's been a wonderful journey I'm glad I didn't miss it" followed by "life has been good".

Maine Dental Health Out-Reach, Inc.
P.O. Box 275
Winthrop ME 04364