Child Health Initiative Program (CHIP) - Preface

Dear Parents,

Thank you very much for your efforts in attending our program. We feel it is unique and promises to be a very fun time for the family. The next five weeks is a compilation of hundreds of hours of time and effort by volunteers within your school community that was spent putting this course together with the purpose of improving healthy lifestyles of our children.

Utilize this CHIP PLAYBOOK as a guide to learn and prepare for the 35 day pilot course week to week, details of which will be presented in week 1. Feel free to visit my website (www.docpaul.com) for a reference library of additional information as well. You will be given an overview of the course midway during the first week and have an opportunity to ask questions about the course so you can best plan your work. It is expected that you and your child come prepared by doing your homework in between each session. We hope to incent the children by giving them tickets each time they complete a unit that will enter them in a grand prize drawing in week 5, the more they do, the more tickets they receive the greater chance of a grand prize by a random drawing. All the kids during the coming weeks will receive a lot of fun things as well. Come casually dressed each week. Most weeks we will have a healthy snack at the end of each session.

At any time, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. We hope that you will be able to attend each and every session and complete the pre and post tests and a final survey of the course as we will be utilize these parameters as a measuring tool for future courses.

My thanks again to all the instructors and sponsors who have given their time and effort for which, I would not have been able to move this project forward.

In closing, we hope that at the end, all will learn and by doing so, will act as a start for our children to apply some of the healthy ideas put forward. It is incumbent on us to help our children overcome todays challenges through preventative and maintenance methods so we are able to help them live their lives to the fullest extent.

Let the games begin!!

In Good Health,

Dr. Paul