Healthy living starts young with Discover: CATCH
We bring a world-class childhood wellness program to the largest early childhood education platform in North America. Reaching hundreds of young children and their families, through your JCCs, Discover CATCH creates an early awareness for healthy nutritional habits and a love of physical fitness.
Discover: CATCH is a collaboration with the University of Texas School of Public Health, which developed Coordinated Approach to Childhood Health (CATCH) in 1990, and it has a proven track record as one of the most successful childhood obesity prevention programs. In 2011, we trained three “masters” in the program, enabling us to launch our first pilot with onsite trainings later that year.
Discover: CATCH, which brings a Jewish focus to the curriculum, provides a way for JCCs to promote a love of physical activity and healthy nutritional habits through their health and wellness, early childhood education, family engagement and Jewish living and learning departments. Children learn about “whoa” and “go” foods, and how to make healthy choices. Through JCC Association training, JCCs engage families with young children in a lifelong commitment to wellness.
Today the program has been implemented in more than 60 JCCs across North America, bringing a message of healthy living to the youngest JCC participants and engaging their families in Jewish learning combined with holistic well-being.