Forms and Material for Clinical Directors For instructions on how to conduct a screening, download the “Health Promotion Guide for Clinical Directions” manual [1.7M PDF]. This manual was authored by the Health Promotion Global Clinical Advisors: Beverly Berkin, CHES, FASHA Sun Safety and Skin Health Advice4e@optonline.net Matt Holder, MD, MBA Global Medical Advisor mattholder@aadmd.org Alice Lenihan, MPH, RD, LDN Nutrition lenihanaj@aol.com Joan Medlen, RD, LD Health Literacy and Communication joan@ipns.com Mary Pittaway, MA, RD, CLC Bone Health Mpitt59802@aol.com The following forms are designed for the use of Clinical Directors when administering their individual programs: Hold Harmless Agreement (Adobe PDF, 124K): All health care providers volunteering to conduct health screenings at Special Olympics Healthy Athletes events must have malpractice insurance that covers the Healthy Athletes related activites. This form's mutual hold harmless language is a method by which each party is protected. Download the HAS form for Health Promotion (Adobe PDF 128K) More information on HAS — Healthy Athletes Software system H20 To Go, Give Me 5, Bone Builders and Sun Safety are publications written with Special Olympics athletes in mind, and designed to teach important health and wellness concepts. Download them below! Health Promotion Brochures: A series of pamphlets have been produced by Healthy Athletes, written with Special Olympics athletes in mind — see brief excerpts below. These are available to download (Adobe PDF format): H20 To Go  "Why Water? Drinking water helps you stay healthy and do your best in Special Olympics competitions. Drinking water also: Helps you digest food. Helps your body get vitamins and minerals out of the foods you eat. Keeps you cool when it's hot or you are exercising hard. Helps you stay in a good mood..." < Download H20 To Go (Adobe PDF, 496K) > Give Me 5 "Five Fruits and Vegetables Every Day — The Healthy Athlete Way! It's never too late to change how you eat so you can feel healthy and be fit for sports. There are lots of things you can do to eat healthy. Eating five or more servings of fruits and vegetables is one of them..."           < Download Give Me 5 (Adobe PDF, 468K) > Bone Builders  "Be good to your bones. They're yours forever. You have 206 bones in your body. That's a lot of bones to take care of! Why Do You Need Bones? Bones are important because they are the frame of your body, called your skeleton..."          < Download Bone Builders (Adobe PDF, 638K) > Sun Safety "What works best to effectively block the UV rays? There are action steps that you can follow in all climates and in all locations around the world to stay safe in the sun..."          < Download Sun Safety (Adobe PDF, 740K) > Related Information Health screenings at Games include BMI and bone mineral density (BMD) measurements; osteopenia and osteoporosis appear to be more frequent among people with disabilities, especially Down syndrome: download Low Bone Mineral Density among Persons with Intellectual Disabilities at the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games, a poster presented at the AAMR annual meeting 1-4 June 2004, (Adobe PDF, 215K) authored by Courtney Pastorfield P.H.N.; Sigfried Pueschael M.D.; Alice Lenihan R.D.; Joan Medlen R.D.; Mark Wagner D.M.D.; Stephen Corbin D.D.S. Health Promotion is exploring means to which year-round locally-based health programs can be implemented for persons with intellectual disabilities. In 2002, Special Olympics started locally-based health promotion pilot programs for athletes that lasted for multiple weeks. The activities in these pilot programs extended beyond the regular Special Olympics sports and training activities. Six pilot programs in the U.S. and one in Latin America were initiated to test different strategies aimed at improving physical fitness and lifestyle choices/habits and to determine if there could be effective predictors of program success. Overall, although the projects had many different approaches, many positive psychosocial and health benefits emerged across the sites. The evaluation, published December 2005, showed successes across different domains including improved perceived health, reduction in body weight, improved self-confidence, enhanced attitudes toward physical activity, increased fiber intake, and decreased barriers. Additionally, findings showed significant changes in upper body and lower body muscle strength and endurance and aerobic fitness at a site that incorporated an 8-week structured circuit training program for athletes. For more information, visit the Research section of this Web site: Health Promotion Pilot Programs Evaluation: Improving Athletes' Health. For more information on Health Promotion, contact Heather Driscoll, +1 (202) 715-1149 or hdriscoll@specialolympics.org.