CHAT has a $10.00 dues per year to be paid for each family (no limit on number of teens per family).  The membership must be renewed in May or June each year.

If you would like to receive CHAT calendars, please email the following information to dseelye@frontier.com or  calendar.troll@gmail.com
This info will not be shared with anyone. If someone wishes to contact you through CHAT, Mr.. Seelye will email you or contact you with that person’s name and phone #.

Teen’s name:
Complete birth date including year
Grade this year in school (2011/12)
Teen e-mail:
Parents names:
Parent’s e-mail:
Mailing address including zip
Phone:
Cell phones (if you’d like)

Please bring payment to a CHAT event when you are ready to join or mail a check made out to David  Seelye 7510 Bluffton Rd. Fort Wayne, IN 46809. 

The following information may answer few of your questions about what CHAT is and isn't

*We try to have at least 2 official "CHAT only" activities each month. Sometimes more, depending on what our members organize. 

* Please note that for CHAT activities  held in a public place (ice skating, Civic Theater, Jefferson Pointe, etc) non homeschool friends are *usually* welcome. Check with the person who organized the event or with the Calendar Coordinator – The Troll – as we still limit who may attend as a 'friend' to people whom we know to fit in well with the CHAT group.     

 
*We list ballroom dance opportunities in the Calendar which have been organized by other groups. This helps our CHAT ballroom dance class participants to keep track of when and where they can go for practice.
The dances offer a chance for the over 300 CHAT teens who have been to the classes to practice in a real dance situation. We have checked out all of the dances listed for appropriateness. The ones we list are no smoking, no drinking, and are truly a very nice group of people who really appreciate our teens.
You do not have to participate in the ballroom dances to be a part of CHAT! However, we have found that those who do participate in them form the deepest friendships in CHAT and make up the core group of who attends CHAT activities.
Please know that the dances listed in the Calendar are NOT CHAT events (except for the Christmas Dance, and the Spring Ball).  Our CHAT Dance Chaperones do try and keep things close to CHAT standards at these public dances, but realize that the non-homeschoolers at these activities do not fall under CHAT authority.

*The teens in general are quite welcoming to new folks, making an effort to help new ones to be a part of the group. This is especially effective if the new teen is also trying at all to join in.
When you bring your teen, a thing which we have observed is that if they come alone or with 1 friend then our teens will still draw them in (especially if the friend is homeschooled).
*Many moms bring their teen to a CHAT event when they are new to the group, then stay to watch and offer security to their teen. This is really not a bad idea, and parents are encouraged to stay and help chaperone at events.

* In the world we are considered to be a very conservative group; in the homeschool community we are considered to be more moderate--not so conservative.
We serve a large group of area homeschool teens with fun, safe, activities that we feel are not displeasing to God.

A majority of the kids are NOT allowed to, or do not wish to, date. There is much discussion and acceptance of friendship and courtship.
Occasionally a couple will form at CHAT (probably  one or less each year-usually among the older teens).
The only  physical involvement that is allowed at CHAT activities is an arm around a shoulder, or hand holding.  

This is all that we will allow at CHAT events.
At all CHAT events, any touch between genders should be done in an innocent, respectful manner (respectful of the person, but also everyone around who may be watching!).

Updated: 16 June 2011