Chicago Public Schools

Project Summary

Since 2019, CATCH Global Foundation has engaged with 15 CATCH Promise schools in Chicago Public Schools to deliver our signature Whole Child Health programming, covering physical activity, nutrition, and Whole Child leadership. Through these programs, CATCH provides the resources underserved districts and school campuses need to deliver robust, impactful, evidence-based coordinated school health programming. As a result of participating, school wellness leaders and teams gain knowledge, skills, confidence, and ability to coordinate and lead campus-wide cultures of Whole Child health.

In CPS specifically, the CATCH program is directly aligned to the Healthy CPS initiative, which seeks to eliminate health-related barriers to learning by streamlining over 50 health and wellness policies into four badges: Health Leadership, Health Instruction, Healthy Environments, and Health Services.

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Outcomes

CATCH’s CATCH Promise partners commit to making a yearlong investment in CATCH’s Whole Child Guided Journey. Through this program, they receive four core leadership trainings sessions throughout the school year, which are interspersed with program implementation periods through which they receive personalized guidance from CATCH program experts and other peers in their cohorts.

Despite school shutdowns  brought on by COVID and a teacher strike in the fall of 2019, CATCH CPS school wellness teams successfully completed the CATCH program with creativity and enthusiasm.Sor Juana Elementary’s digital yearbook showcases the impact the program had on just one of these schools. CPS CATCH Promise schools rose to the challenge as exemplified by digital yearbooks from West Park Elementary and Clinton Elementary.