National ASDA provides various resources and tools to help you run your ASDA chapter effectively. Review these resources throughout the year and connect with national ASDA at membership@asdanet.org for questions.     

 

  

Best Practices: Working with School Administration: Developing a good relationship with your dental school administration can lead to important benefits for the chapter including increased member engagement and greater school support. This guide is available as a PowerPoint or PDF and should be used by the Executive Committee of your ASDA chapter.  

Chapter How-To Guides: ASDA developed guides on various topics to assist chapters. These guides provide the steps involved in organizing an event and project ideas from other ASDA chapters. View all the how-to guides here.

Lunch and Learns: ASDA created a position paper on the importance of having lunch and learns. This paper can be used as a resource when speaking with administration about the benefits of holding lunch and learns for students.

Chapter Waiver: When holding chapter events that hold high risk, participants should sign a waiver to prevent liability against your ASDA chapter or national ASDA.

Membership: Learn more about the benefits of ASDA membership, tools to recruit and engage members, and the ASDA membership process. 

Position Descriptions: Find positions descriptions for your chapter. Be sure to share these descriptions with the people serving in these positions so they understand their responsibilities.

Organizational Structure: This diagram shows the structure of ASDA and how the board, councils, editorial board and other national leaders work together.

Contact ASDA: Contact a member of the ASDA central office staff or the Executive Committee.