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CATCH Whole Child Guided Journey

Action Period

Whole Child Leadership Training: The foundation for creating and sustaining healthy school environments

Assignments: 1) Introduce the CATCH framework and language to your school community using the Get Started and See CATCH sections of the Coordination Kit, 2) Participate in 1st virtual consultation session with your CATCH Guide

The Language of CATCH: Building a school culture that values and reinforces health through coordinating school-wide health messages and instruction

Assignments: 1) Build a healthy school culture with the Hear CATCH and DO CATCH sections of the Coordination Kit, 2) Start building your digital CATCH yearbook portfolio, 3) Participate in 2nd virtual consultation session with your CATCH Guide

Family and Community Engagement: Making Families our Partners in CATCH

Assignments: 1) Connect with families with the Engage with CATCH section of Coordination Kit, 2) Plan a CATCH MVP Family event, 3) Add to your digital portfolio, 4) Participate in 3rd virtual consultation session with your CATCH Program Manager

Celebrating Success & Sustainability Workshop: Keeping the momentum going

Assignments: 1) Share CATCH yearbook portfolio and reflection, 2) Begin to create an action plan for next school year, 3) Thank/acknowledge your CATCH team, faculty and families for a great year and prepare for a healthy summer with the Celebrate and Sustain Section of the Coordination Kit

This is a brief overview of how the Learning Sessions will roll out over the course of the year. There are a total of 4 learning sessions delivered in a mix of live in person, asynchronous video modules and live via zoom engagement sessions and 3 virtual consultation sessions. At the end of the year, CATCH Leadership teams will have completed a CATCH yearbook digital portfolio documenting their journey.

Following each Learning Session is what we call the “Action Period”. During this time, the CATCH Leadership Teams will go back to their school staff and share CATCH activities and Coordination Extensions from the CATCH Coordination Kit and complete the specified assignments.

Before, or as soon as possible after Learning Session 1, CATCH leadership teams will familiarize themselves with CATCH.org, view the Coordination Kit tutorial and complete the Healthy Schools Environmental snapshot to assess current assets and opportunities for growth.

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What is the Whole Child Guided Journey?

What-- The WCGJ is a unique training, implementation and support model for school wellness leaders and teams.

How -- School wellness leaders engage in four training touchpoints over the course of a school year to build their knowledge, skills, confidence and ability to lead whole child culture building in their school communities.

Resources --Dovetailed with each training, school wellness leaders, with support from a CATCH guide, will employ the CATCH cornerstone resource, the Whole Child Coordination Kit, to involve their entire campus in the process of implementing a coordinated approach to building a whole child supportive school environment and a culture of health and wellness.

Culminating Project-- Wellness leaders will document their WCGJ with the CATCH Yearbook Portfolio. You can see CATCH in Action in WCGJ alumni schools here.

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What Do I Do?

What is the the Whole Child Guided Journey? The WCGJ is a unique training, implementation and support model for school wellness leaders and teams over the course of a school year. As a result of participating in the CATCH Whole Child Guided Journey, school wellness leaders and teams will have knowledge, skills, confidence, ability and resources to coordinate and lead whole child culture building in their school communities.

What do I have to do?

Training: School wellness leaders engage in four training touchpoints over the course of a school year to build their knowledge, skills, confidence and ability to lead whole child culture building in their school communities. There are different options for delivering the training touchpoints. If you're not sure how to access the training, check with your principal or district administrator or reach out to info@catch.org.
Implementation: Dovetailed with each training, school wellness leaders, will employ the CATCH cornerstone resource, the Whole Child Coordination Kit, to involve their entire campus in the process of implementing a coordinated approach to a whole child supportive school environment and a culture of health and wellness.
Support: A CATCH Guide will be there to support the wellness champion every step of the way with regular check in's and consultation.
Culminating Project: Wellness leaders and teams will document their WCGJ with the CATCH Yearbook Portfolio. You can see CATCH in Action in WCGJ alumni schools here.

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What is the CATCH Coordination Kit?

CATCH is an acronym that stands for Coordinated Approach to Child Health.

Within the CATCH Program, the main resource wellness leaders and teams use to achieve coordination around health and wellness initiatives is the Coordination Kit.

The Coordination Kit is not a curriculum. It is a roadmap designed to get an entire campus involved in the process of implementing a coordinated approach to building a whole child supportive school environment and a culture of health and wellness.

It provides a framework, resources and a common language for talking about and reinforcing healthy behaviors and mindsets.

It contains:

4 All-In CATCH Challenges (roughly one per grading period) that encourage and normalize aligned health and wellness messaging as a school community in order to establish and reinforce a culture of health and wellness at school
aligned coordination extensions to maximise impact throughout the school environment including embedded whole school SEL connections

Implementing the simple and doable activities in the Coordination Kit lays the foundation for healthy students, healthy families, healthy faculty & staff-- a healthy school community.

In order to serve the whole child, a school should also have dedicated instructional time for health education, physical education and social-emotional learning. The Coordination Kit does not replace health education including social-emotional learning or physical education.