The 2015 Salisbury Missions of Mercy dental clinic will be held March 6 and 7 at the Abernathy Physical Education Center on the campus of Catawba College.

This will be the second MOM Clinic in Salisbury. The inaugural clinic in 2013 served roughly 800 patients who could not have afforded dental services otherwise.

The North Carolina Missions of Mercy (NCMOM) portable free dental program is an outreach program of the North Carolina Dental Society. Its mission is “to provide free dental services to those in financial need with few or no other options.” The goals of the program are to provide free dental care to as many underserved adults within North Carolina as is possible and to involve as much of the dental community of the state in the treatment of the underserved as possible.

The NCMOM program is a grassroots effort, dependent on volunteers, with funding from grants and donations. Since its inception in 2003, the program has received national and statewide recognition.

Local organizers are asking people who want to volunteer for the Salisbury clinic to go to the website — www.ncmom-salisbury.com — to sign up.

The event needs both community volunteers and professional volunteers. Job descriptions are available on the website. For the September 2013 MOM Clinic, the state office had to shut down volunteer sign up on the website for the Salisbury clinic because of the large response.

“It was a wonderful sign of the community’s support for the clinic, but also a reminder that people need to sign up to volunteer soon,” said Dr. Jim Dunkin, community coordinator for the event and senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church.

For more information on the Salisbury MOM Clinic, contact Dunkin or Dr. David Mayberry, the dental professional coordinator.