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CATCH: Coordinated Approach to Child
Health
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Physical activity is an essentiall component when Feeding hungry minds and bodies®. Physical
fitness is vital to preparing the body to be fully receptive to mental and physical nutrition. To support this
component of our mission,
AmeriCorps members are practicing the games and activites that make up the CATCH program
during Food Folk training . |
Children's Hunger Alliance leverages our AmeriCorps volunteers to teach the CATCH program in host site communities across the state of Ohio.
CATCH is the acronym for Coordinated Approach To Child Health. A nationally
recognized physical fitness curriculum which encourages all children to participate in noncompetitive physical
fitness activities. As with many of Afterschool Nutrition & Education's enrichment programs, CATCH can be taught
within the afterschool programs
or a school system's physical education program.
The result: CATCH has an extremely high participation rate among the youth offered the program
and improves cardiovascular and respiratory fitness in the youth that participate.
For more information, call 614-341-7700, ext. 242 or e-mail.
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