CHIP Facilitator Training Workshop

Impact lives in your community and workplace
Become an accredited CHIP facilitator

Join a movement of accredited program facilitators who have transformed the lives of over 50,000 Americans over the past 15 years through disease prevention and reversal.

"I have often told audiences around the United States that the CHIP program is the premier community-based health program in the country!"
     —T. Colin Campbell, PhD, Professor Emeritus Nutritional Biochemistry, Cornell University, author of The China Study

The Complete Health Improvement Program (CHIP) is evidence based and a well published program proven to lower cholesterol and blood pressure, normalize fasting glucose and reduce BMI within 30 days with improvements made to sleep, resilience and depression.
     —Merrill, R. M., & Aldana, S.G. (2009). Improving overall health status through the CHIP intervention. Am J Health Behav, 33(2), 135-146.

Based on a cohort of 5,000+, CHIP has proven that the average CHIP participant can achieve a

• 19.8% reduction in average total cholesterol in 30 days for those with baseline cholesterol of higher than 280mg/dl
• 16.1% reduction in average LDL cholesterol in 30 days for those with baseline LDL cholesterol of higher than 190mg/dl
• 44.1% reduction in average triglycerides in 30 days for those with baseline triglycerides of higher than 500mg/dl
• 19.9% reduction in average fasting plasma glucose in 30 days for those with baseline fasting plasma glucose of higher than 125mg/dl
• 10.4% reduction in participants being categorised as having metabolic syndrome after 30 days
• 4% reduction in the number of participants requiring medication after 30 days
• 37% reduction in participants smoking after 30 days
• 3.2% reduction in average body mass after 30 days

     —Rankin, P., et al., Effectiveness of a Volunteer-Delivered Lifestyle Modification Program for Reducing Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors. Am J Cardiology, Jan 2012.

Why offer CHIP in your workplace/community?

• Improve health and productivity of employees/community
• Stabilize health care costs
• Help employees/community learn relationship between lifestyle and health
• Help employees/community learn to recognize and change unhealthy behaviors

Companies can experience:

• Lower group health insurance costs
• Reduction in sick leave absenteeism
• Reduction in workers’ compensation
• Reduction in presenteeism costs
• Increase in morale

Employees can experience:

• Improved health and quality of life
• Increased understanding between the relationship of lifestyle and health
• Reduction of high cholesterol, high blood pressure, weight, depression, medications
• Prevention and reversal of type 2 diabetes

Facilitator Training Workshop

The training workshop provides the following learning outcomes:

	Gain an insight into the new paradigm of Lifestyle Medicine and its supporting science
	Focus on results-based wellness, not participatory wellness
	Facilitate CHIP programs in your community or workplace
	Communicate the CHIP program powerfully: its core lifestyle medicine principles, what the program delivers to participants and the role it can play in reversing disease
	Define your business model, overcome your business barriers and solicit the help of partnerships
	Effectively plan and market your CHIP program to your target audience
	Effectively implement a CHIP program in an easily reproducible manner that scales to different size audiences
	Integrate CHIP into your corporate culture
	Generate participation in wellness initiatives

For facilitator training for CHIP programs in Seventh-day Adventist churches, please go to www.adventistchip.org. For all other faith communities, businesses, and organizations, click the button for workshop details and to register.