Hands-on training and support for school-wide health and wellness
Why Whole Child?
Coordinating a campus around a Whole Child approach to wellness provides a foundation upon which all physical and mental well-being programs and initiatives can thrive. It is well-documented that healthy kids are better learners and social & emotional skills and competencies lead to better academic and life outcomes.
The Whole Child Guided Journey is CATCH’s most comprehensive hands-on training and implementation support package. At the end of the Journey, school wellness leaders and teams will have knowledge, skills, confidence, ability and resources to effectively lead coordinated whole child programming across the entire school campus using the evidence-based CATCH framework.
Your Whole Child Guided Journey Includes:
4-part training series – scheduled over the course of a school year for school wellness teams
CATCH Coordination Kit (cornerstone resource) – your roadmap to get your entire campus involved in building and sustaining a healthy school environment
CATCH health curriculum bundle – available schoolwide via CATCH.org
CATCH PE physical activity pack – available schoolwide via CATCH.org
5 SEL Anchor Activities – plus option to add SEL Journeys program
Ongoing Support from your CATCH Guide – regular check-ins and consultation with a CATCH program manager
Culminating Project – document your Whole Child Guided Journey with the CATCH Yearbook Portfolio
The Whole Child Guided Journey is divided into four phases, spread across the school year (approximate dates shown). Each phase includes a Learning Session and an Action Period. During each Action Period, a CATCH Program Manager will provide check-ins and consultation for the school wellness leader to discuss progress, celebrate successes, and help troubleshoot any problems that may arise.
Scroll down to see what is covered in each phase.
Phase 1 (Aug - Oct)
Learning Session: Whole Child Leadership Training
2 HOURS | ONLINE / LIVE / INTERACTIVE
The foundation for creating and sustaining healthy school environments.
Every journey begins with the very first step. After getting to know one another and being introduced to the Whole Child Guided Journey learning model, participants will examine and practice the skills and strategies needed to effectively lead a community-wide initiative in which multiple stakeholders work together to support health at school and at home.
School wellness teams explore the CATCH Coordination Kit as the main resource that will help them facilitate healthy change on their campus over the course of a school year.
Action Phase: Getting Started & See CATCH
Get organized with the “Getting Started” section of the Coordination Kit and introduce the CATCH framework & language to your school with a CATCH Kick-Off .
Adults in the school community model positive health and wellness behaviors and mindsets using the See CATCH theme.
The following CATCH programs complement the other activities taking place during this Phase of the Guided Journey.
SEL Journeys – provides age-differentiated lessons aligned to the CASEL Framework for Systemic Social & Emotional Learning (30 lessons/grade). *increases cost
Phase 2 (Oct - Jan)
Learning Session: The Language of CATCH – Building a Culture of Health
2 HOURS | ONLINE / LIVE / INTERACTIVE
Building a school culture that values and reinforces health & wellness by coordinating instruction and messaging.
Ensuring that students receive high-quality health and physical education as a part of their standard course work is essential for creating a healthy school environment. CATCH Whole Child coordination can work with the CATCH PE and Health resources or any high-quality PE or Health curriculum.
In this learning session, we will delve into how the CATCH coordination framework introduces a common language to talk about and reinforce healthy food choices, physical activity, and social emotional learning in different places and spaces throughout the school day. In this way, health learning and skills practice move beyond the walls of the classroom and/or gym and into the rest of the school building, resulting in a culture of health across the campus.
Action Phase: Hear CATCH and Do CATCH
Build a healthy school culture using the Hear CATCH theme
Begin to invite students and adults to demonstrate healthy behavior and mindsets using Do CATCH (continued in Phase 3)
Start building your CATCH Yearbook Portfolio.
Check-in with your CATCH Program Manager.
Training Add-Ons and Coordinated Extensions
Training Add-Ons (increases cost)
Half-day in-person training CATCH PE Basics (can be a full-day training, if including Learning Session listed above).
Coordinated Extension
The following CATCH program complements the other activities taking place during this Phase of the Guided Journey.
SEL Journeys – CATCH’s K-12 SEL program provides age-differentiated lessons aligned to the CASEL Framework for Systemic Social and Emotional Learning. Through highly engaging student-facing content, the digital platform uses movement and cultural learning to teach and reinforce SEL concepts. *increases cost
Phase 3 (Jan - Apr)
Learning Session: Family and Community Engagement in CATCH
3 MODULES | ONLINE / ASYNCHRONUS
Making families our partners in CATCH.
The school to home connection is key to so many educational outcomes. With CATCH, we have the unique opportunity to educate and reinforce positive health and wellness behaviors for the entire family in order to ensure adoption of healthy behaviors for our students. In this learning session, participants will gain strategies and resources for developing messages, events, and opportunities for families to be partners in your school’s CATCH program.
Action Phase: Do CATCH and Engage with CATCH
Reinforce and reward positive health and wellness behaviors and mindsets using the Do CATCH theme.
Connect & communicate with families using the Engage CATCH theme.
Plan a family engagement event either in person or virtual.
Add to your CATCH Yearbook Portfolio.
Check-in with your CATCH Program Manager.
Training Add-Ons and Coordinated Extensions
Training Add-Ons (increases cost)
None
Coordinated Extensions
The following CATCH programs complement the other activities taking place during this Phase of the Guided Journey.
CATCH My Breath – evidence-based youth nicotine vaping prevention program shown to significantly reduce the likelihood of vaping in the year following implementation (grades 5-12 only). *free program
Phase 4 (Apr - Jun)
Learning Session: Celebrating Success and Sustainability
2 HOURS | ONLINE / LIVE / INTERACTIVE
Keep the momentum going!
As the school year comes to an end, we look back on and celebrate our CATCH program successes, review key components, identify opportunities for growth and create an action plan for moving into the new school year. Each school will have an opportunity to share their own CATCH journey over the course of the year.
Action Phase: Celebrate and Sustain
Acknowledge and thank people who participated in the CATCH program this year and prepare for a healthy summer using the Celebrate and Sustain section of the Coordination Kit.
Begin to create an action plan for next school year.
Share your CATCH Yearbook Portfolio and reflections with your school community and CATCH Program Manager.
Training Add-Ons and Coordinated Extensions
Training Add-Ons (increases cost)
Half-day in-person training covering Learning Session listed above plus a CATCH Coordination Kit Booster Training.
Coordinated Extensions
The following CATCH programs complement the other activities taking place during this Phase of the Guided Journey.
Ray and the Sunbeatables®: A Sun Safety Curriculum(grades K-1) and Be Sunbeatable™(grades 2-5) – developed by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, the evidence-based curriculum educates children, parents and teachers about sun protection and promotes sun safety behaviors in an effort to reduce children’s lifetime risk of developing skin cancer. *free program
What's Included
The Whole Child Guided Journey costs $5,000 per campus, and includes all of the programming and support outlined below. Districts with high rates of free-and-reduced lunch (>75%) may qualify for funding assistance through the CATCH Promise initiative.
CATCH Whole Child Guided Journey (1 Year)
Four Guided Journey live virtual trainings at regular intervals throughout the year (5 seats)
Hands-on implementation guidance with dedicated CATCH Master Trainer for your campus
Access to a cohort of fellow teachers going through the Guided Journey
Virtual PE training course (2 seats to use across any of our PE courses)
What's Included
The Whole Child Guided Journey costs $5,000 per campus, and includes all of the programming and support outlined below. Districts with high rates of free-and-reduced lunch (>75%) may qualify for funding assistance through the CATCH Promise initiative.
Guided Journey Training & Support
5 Live Learning Sessions (outlined above)
Personal CATCH Program Manager for implementation support (1 year)
Schools are able to customize their Guided Journey, based on their individual needs, by adding one or more of our Whole Child programs. CATCH offers a coordinated one-stop solution for campus wellness, but the Guided Journey provides a foundation for any health and wellness programming or initiatives – even those that aren’t from CATCH!
Make CATCH your one-stop Whole Child solution by adding:
CATCH My Breath
Evidence-based nicotine vaping prevention curriculum for grades 5-12
A CATCH Yearbook is a digital portfolio of a school’s CATCH implementation over the course of a school year. Schools going through the Whole Child Guided Journey use their yearbook to showcase their work to colleagues, administration, school boards, parents or other stakeholders. A selection of yearbooks from the 2020-2021 school year can be viewed below.
Once you complete the form below, a specialist from the CATCH team will follow up with customized recommendations to take wellness in your community to the next level!
As a bonus, we will send you our free Whole Child Assets & Needs Inventory tool (note that completing the inventory is optional).
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CATCH Promise
Making Healthy Schools Possible
CATCH Promise is a health equity initiative that uses the Guided Journey to bring Whole Child wellness to school districts across the country where there is:
a substantial public health need,
a lack of resources to implement, and
district readiness to act.
CATCH Global Foundation commits to help districts with high free or reduced-price lunch rates (>75% FRL) overcome financial barriers to participate in the Guided Journey.
CATCH Promise is not a blank check; it’s an investment and there are terms to be met. But, we’re ready to bring substantial grants for educational programs to districts that are committed to creating healthy change.
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