 Lessons in a Lunch Box®
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In response to the numerous health and behavioral issues seen in children with dental caries, Pediatric Dentist and CEO of the COHI, Winifred Booker, created the “Lessons In A Lunch Box: Healthy Teeth Essentials & Facts About Snacks” program to ensure teachers, parents and children are all working together to help eliminate this potentially deadly, yet completely preventable, disease. “Tooth decay remains the most common chronic disease of children ages five to seventeen. No child should be at-risk of dying from complications arising from dental caries, when all it takes is education and preventative maintenance to keep children’s teeth healthy,” said Dr. Booker.
The oral health literacy program was fine-tuned with the energizing support and constructive deliberations from Dr. Michele Dozier, Director of Operations, Dr. Leslie Grant, Director of Advocacy & Outreach, Mrs. Sherry H. Senter, Education Resource Consultant and Board member, Ms. Shannon Paige. The Lessons In a Lunch Box: Healthy Teeth Essentials & Facts About Snacks program is designed to empower… and more. Grant funding obtained by the MCOHI will afford close to 5,000 Baltimore City Public School children the educational lunch box during the 2008 school year.
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Presenting the Lessons In A Lunch Box Program: A Play-by-Play Outline »
 Introduce the Lessons In A Lunch Box program to elementary school children via your dental school.
The following steps are necessary to bring Lessons In A Lunch Box to your dental school. Please click on each numbered link below to download the appropriate forms in pdf format.
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- Complete the Preliminary Program Registration Form (pdf) and send via mail to 9199 Reisterstown Rd., Suite 203 A, Owings Mills, MD 21117 or email to mycohi@aol.com.
- Partner your Dental School/School of Dental Hygiene with an Elementary School and complete the Final 2011–2012 Program Registration Form (pdf) .
- Draft a Letter of Engagement (doc) to be sent to the Elementary School principal or health education coordinator. Include a description of the Lessons In A Lunch Box program.
- Request a form letter or memo (pdf) from the Principal or Chief Academic Officer allowing all students in grades K through 3 to receive a lunch box and dental hygiene carrot case, which includes a toothbrush, toothpaste and dental floss.
- Photograph Release Forms must be obtained if you are planning to take pictures or invite the media to your Lessons In A Lunch Box event. However, today many schools address securing these releases for all of their students at the beginning of each new school year. Therefore it may not be necessary for you to repeat the process. Sample release forms that you can customize may be downloaded from the internet. Download a sample photo release form by clicking here (pdf) .
We encourage you to take pictures and to write a press release or article documenting your presentation. The Children’s Oral Health Institute would like to include your photographs and write ups as a part of an ongoing video documentary much like the one you will currently find on our home page.
- *Provide each classroom teacher with an educator survey (pdf) on the day you and your students present Lessons In A Lunch Box. The survey is to be completed within 4 to 8 weeks after the program has been presented to the students.
- Provide a Volunteer Service Documentation Form (pdf) to dental students and other volunteers.
- *Dental students should complete a program Pre-test (pdf) and Post-test (pdf) .
- The teachers should be asked to send to you, your dental school and or your organization a thank you note or letter to acknowledge all of the volunteers. Have a sample thank you letter available to provide to the teachers.
*The Children’s Oral Health Institute appreciates the willingness of the dental school dean or program coordinator to assist us with the collection of this important data by returning the forms to 9199 Reisterstown Road, Suite 203A, Owings Mills, Maryland 21117 or emailing them to wbcohi@aol.com.
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