Baby Steps To Good Health

Wednesday April 29, 2009 we went to Monroe Elementary and Knapp Elementary for the Walking Wednesday Events. It was so much fun! I learned that the kids love to be active, as well as help out. I had kids volunteering to help put up decorations and running around all over the place. The competitiveness between the kids was a beautiful thing too! They were trying to compete against eachother by seeing who could run around the field the most times. The class with the most participants received the wonderful baby shoes trophy with my wonderful slogan, "Baby Steps To Good Health". So what I learned about the kids walking away from this project was, if you provide them the opportunity to be active, they definitely will. Kids like to run around, so as long as we don't hold them back and allow them to be "kids", that is exactly what they will do. Now all we have to do is make sure they leave the candy alone and pick up an apple!

Monroe & Knapp

Yesterday, April 27, 2009 I went to Monroe and Knapp Elementary Schools with Felipe. Visiting with the administration in the schools in order to get flyers printed was a good thing. It allowed me to see how cooperative the schools are in helping out. Once we got done speaking with the schools we walked the neighborhoods to deliver flyers. This was a great experience because it enabled me to see how receptive the parents in these neighborhoods are, regardless of the communication barrier. They were glad to see that we were encouraging their kids to walk to school. Tomorrow will definitely be an adventure playing with the kids after they walk to school. I can't wait to see the turnout from the flyers that were sent home. And you know me, of course I'll have pics to share tomorrow!

Live WEll Colorado Challenge

Today April 10, 2009 the Apprentice Challengers received our 4th and final project. This project was given to us by Live WEll Colorado, partnered by Live WEll Westwood, The Colorado Health Foundation, and Kaiser Permanente. The ultimate goal of this project is to prevent obesity. By the year 2017 2/3 of adults will be overweight or obese so we must start young. Our focus will be on the children in the zip code of 80219, which is the Westwood area. By preventing obesity health problems such as diabetes, heart disease, strokes, depression and breast and colon cancer could be prevented. It is now the teams opportunity to advertise the benefits of good health, promote awareness, and educate young children, as well as their parents. Let's end this EPIDEMIC and get started team!

All Most to the Finish Line

Today, April 3, 2009, the apprentice challengers presented our strategic marketing plan to the Colorado Housing and Finance Authority. Since I was up until 2:30am finalizing things for today, I was definitely tired. However, 9:00am hit and for this team lead the adrenaline started flowing! I think the biggest challenge in this project was thoroughly researching the demographics in order to determine how to efficiently market to a specific area. Through this project I definitely learned ACCOUNTABILITY! It is easy to think you are spending a certain amount of money when in fact you are spending twice as much, believe me I do it myself. Everyone needs to take responsibility for their actions, not feel embarrassed or ashamed, as well as step up to the plate in terms of correcting issues, such as budget. It must communicated to everyone that it is never too late to seek help in preventing foreclosure and that no one person is alone in a foreclosure struggle. I learned that we must take control of the situation when dealing with foreclosure because your lender does not owe you anything and "YOU are the Key to YOUR Success." Everyone did a great job. To all of my team if you are reading this, FANTASTIC JOB and I can't wait for the next one!

Foreclosure Fair

On March 13, 2009 the team went to the foreclosure fair in the city of Arvada. There was not a big turnout, but a few people came. As far as the team goes, we basked in the amount of information that we were able to obtain! This fair was definitely worth the team going to. We gained contacts that we would not have been able to obtain. We met after the fair and got our big idea for this challenge to take shape. Speaking of taking shape, I better get going to this meeting for tonight so we can get even further!

End of Project 2

Today the three ladies made the finishing touches on the E-Waste Eco-Rally project. Tomorrow is presentation day! It was definitely a harder project than I thought. I learned that making your vision that you may have of something come true, is definitley hard. Tomorrow we will be able to exhibit just how hard it was and what we did to overcome the obstacles that were thrown in our path. Better start getting ready because 8:00am or 6:00am that I have to be up at, comes way too quick!

CHFA

On Friday March 6, 2009 we got our 3rd project presented to us. The Colordao Housing and Finance Authority (CHFA) has given us a challenge to reach out to the city of Parker Colorado. Zip codes 80134 and 80138 represent a high number of households that recently received a notice of foreclosure filings, also known as Notice of Election and Demand (NED), but also have a low call rate to the Foreclosure Hotline. It is now our duty to create a Request for Proposal (RFP) in an effective and efficient manner that demonstrates our ability to reach borrowers in the city of Parker who may want assistance with contacting and negotiating with their lender. It's time to get started. Let's save some homes!