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The world has changed profoundly since our last newsletter. When widespread quarantines hit the U.S. in March, CATCH began working rapidly to support schools and families impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic. Our newly-developed CATCH Health at Home resource is free-to-access and provides both parents and educators with tools to keep kids healthy while sheltered at home.
To date, more than 4,000 parents and educators have signed up for CATCH Health at Home. The resource includes many materials completely new to CATCH.org.
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Free Content Available through Health at Home
- Health/nutrition lessons from our evidence-based CATCH curriculum
- Physical activities from the CATCH Activity Boxes
- NEW Physical activity demonstration videos
- NEW Spanish translations
- NEW CATCH MVP lessons supporting immune health
- NEW Mindfulness & stress management activities
- NEW “Vaping, Lung Health, & Infectious Disease Addendum
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Premium Content Coming Soon to CATCH.org
NEW Recorded K-8 CATCH video lessons
- Streamable options will be available for à la carte purchase.
- Downloadable options available at no additional cost to paid CATCH.org subscribers (for corresponding content).
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| On May 5, CATCH will celebrate #GivingTuesdayNow by kicking off our CATCH Good Health Campaign, a month-long initiative to bring good health to communities everywhere while unlocking funds to support our school-based and online programs.
Participants in the CATCH Good Health Challenge will become advocates for health equity by committing to do weekly CATCH Health at Home activities – with their families or virtual communities – and by fundraising or donating to help us unlock more than $2,500 in matching contributions!
Stay tuned for more information coming early next week, or sign up now to get started as a participant, community leader, or matching donor.
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Clearing the Air: Virtual Field Trip
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We’ve teamed up with Discovery Education / Be Vape Free to produce a free, virtual field trip kicking off tomorrow 4/30 at 12PM CST. Several teenagers will share their firsthand experiences of successfully avoiding e-cigarettes, learning to think critically about media influences and picking up effective refusal skills, with health and marketing experts shedding light on the vaping epidemic. Register now.
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Service Learning Projects: Scholarship Deadline & Future Health Professionals (HOSA) Vote
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At the conferences, delegates will also vote to decide if CATCH My Breath will become HOSA’s official service learning project for the next two years. We’ve made it to the final round, so if you or someone you know is a HOSA member, please share our website and webinar to help our chances of broadening our impact via the HOSA network!
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"Vaping, Lung Health, & Infectious Disease" Addendum
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A new CATCH My Breath addendum discusses the potentially dangerous links between vaping and infectious diseases, like COVID-19. This resource is free-to-access through CATCH My Breath or CATCH Health at Home.
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Updated 6th Grade Curriculum
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Lesson and resource updates to the CATCH My Breath 6th grade curriculum will be released May 1st. The new version will be labeled “6th Grade - NEW (5/1/20)” in CATCH.org. Schools currently implementing the 6th grade curriculum will still be able to access the old version through the end of the school year.
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| Our new "CATCH Inclusive Health" 4-part video training series covers best-practices for including youth with intellectual disability (ID) in physical activity sessions. Enroll in the free series to have it added to your CATCH.org dashboard.
This series was made possible thanks to a grant from Special Olympics International. Special thanks also to William's Community School and the Northwest Family Branch of Austin YMCA.
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K-5 CATCH Kids Club Activity Pack Expansion
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| This May, an update to the digital CATCH Kid’s Club (CKC) K-5 Physical Activity pack will bring dozens of activities to new and existing activity categories. Those with CKC Activity Pack licenses will get the updated content automatically on CATCH.org. For new users, purchase information is available on our Pricing Guide.
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| Be sure to add Evaluations and Alignments to your CATCH.org dashboard to access new CATCH alignments with the grade-level outcomes identified by SHAPE America National Standards ( NEW ), National Head Start Standards, National Health Education Standards, and more.
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New Activity Demonstration Videos
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Join us today at 1PM CST, for "Delivering CATCH Health at Home as a Virtual SNAP-Ed Toolkit Intervention." Register now to catch it live, or view the recording in our Webinar Archives (published by 5/1).
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If you haven't yet, we encourage you to join our online community to keep up-to-date on the latest CATCH and e-cigarette news, recipes, health tips, training opportunities, & more!
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Virtual & In-Person CATCH Trainings
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The CATCH team will soon be offering a limited number of virtual training options to accommodate COVID-19 closures and quarantine periods. We are also booking in-person trainings for the fall semester. Contact info@catchinfo.org for more details and/or to schedule a training.
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Every Kid Healthy Week Recap
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Last week we teamed up with Action for Healthy Kids for their annual Every Kid Healthy Week –encouraging schools and parents to focus on promoting health and well-being at home.
Check out some community highlights:
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Communities all over the country are responding creatively to the challenge of keeping health education going at home. Big high-five to all of those who have shared so far and keep the posts coming (and be sure tag @CATCHhealth)!
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CATCH in the Press
EIN Newswire
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To get CATCH in your community, email us or call 855-500-0050. For more information, visit our website at catchinfo.org
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