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The Coordinated Approach to Child Health (CATCH) program is an evidence based physical activity and nutrition program for schools that promotes healthy food choices among children.
For over 25 years, the CATCH platform has been the most cost effective means of preventing childhood obesity, in an environment that’s fun and easy to sustain. They are the originators of “GO, SLOW, and WHOA” for identifying healthful foods.
CATCH has a new digital website!
In Spanish, too!
“The program aims to impact messaging a child receives in physical education, the lunchroom, the classroom, and the home, to form an effective resource that impacts a child’s choices not only in school, but lifelong.”
Share this with teachers, PE teachers, principals, school administrators, and student health advisory councils.
Learn more ways to help kids stay active with the CATCH fact sheet here.
Read case studies about programs already using CATCH.
CATCH was first developed in the late 1980s, funded by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute through a collaborative effort by the University of California at San Diego, University of Minnesota, Tulane University and The University of Texas-School of Public Health. Referred to as the Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health, CATCH was the largest school-based health promotion study ever conducted in the United States.
By The Numbers
84
percent
of Latino parents support public funding for afterschool programs
