The CHIPS program consist of the child accompanied by parents stopping at several stations within the workshop. The first station is the registration desk where the child's personal information is gathered. Station number two is where the dental impressions and DNA swabs of the child are taken. Station three is where a video taped interview of the child is recorded while asking the child a series of relevant questions . Station four is where police volunteer their time at the event to take finger prints impressions of the child for identification purposes. Then at the final station, all this information is combined into a package including a disk that parents keep one copy and another copy for the child's school to keep on file.

The program is designed that in the event of a missing child, information gathered from the CHIPS program could provide police with valuable information and leads that could possibly assist them in finding the child and returning him or her back home again.

The event was conducted by volunteers from Somerville Masonic Lodge and it's Master Skip Trahey, King Solomon's Masonic Lodge, Eastern Star members, Gary Stiller DDS office of Cambridge and the Somerville Police Department.