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We're CATCHing Up! CATCH (Coordinated Approach To Child Health) is a coordinated school health program which builds an alliance of parents, teachers, child nutrition personnel, school staff, and community partners to teach children and their families how to be healthy for a lifetime. The four CATCH components - Go For Health Classroom Curriculum, CATCH Physical Education, Eat Smart School Nutrition Guide, and Family Home Team activities - reinforce positive healthy behaviors throughout a child's day and make it clear that good health and learning go hand in hand.
Educators are on the frontlines of learning, and teaching children about
healthy living is no exception. Across Texas, administrators, teachers,
PE specialists, nurses, counselors, and school staff We're teachers, too! The CATCH Team understands how taxing the responsibilities of teaching can be. Mounting instructional workloads, overcrowded classrooms, and limited resources are but a few of the inherent challenges which make it difficult to initiate new programs. We understand you can't do it alone. The success of CATCH relies on the coordinated process utilized to implement its component parts. The CATCH Program provides the foundation and resources by which educators build an alliance of parents, teachers, child nutrition personnel, school staff, and community partners. The result - in the classroom, in the lunchroom, in the gym, and at home - children master practical skills they can utilize to eat healthy and stay physically active The CATCH Texas website outlines how to get started and what you might do once you have begun. We offer practical solutions to common barriers associated with implementing new programs. Each month, the CATCH What's New section will offer you new instructional resources, Home Team activities, and simple classroom activities which blend health topics with day-to-day core academic subjects. And once you're underway, CATCH Texas will serve as a forum for you to gather new ideas, highlight your school's achievement, and network with other CATCH Texas schools. We hope you enjoy your visit to our website. When you're ready, please contact us toll free at 1-866-346-6163 to learn more about how you can get started helping schools begin implementing the CATCH Program. The New Movement for Healthier Kids CATCH works! The CATCH Program has scientifically demonstrated that you can create school environments that affect healthy behavioral changes in children. Your school's participation in the CATCH Program is an investment in the health of children, and helps create a healthy community where children benefit from the eating behaviors and physical activity skills they have learned in the school.
Texas, and the nation, is faced with an epidemic of obesity. Approximately 15% of American children are overweight. Children who are overweight are more likely to develop diabetes and other chronic disease risk factors. Inactivity and poor diet cause at least 300,000 deaths a year in the United States. Obesity related diseases cost the U.S. economy more than $100 billion every year. But fortunately, the science of CATCH demonstrated that behaviors such as physical inactivity and eating foods high in fat can be positively changed. |
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