Founded in 2014, CATCH Global Foundation (“CATCH”) is a nonprofit organization with the mission to empower school communities to cultivate Whole Child wellness as a lever for social equity. Whole Child wellness embraces the vision that health education not only improves health, it improves education. By providing students’ with the tools to develop healthy habits mentally, emotionally and physically their overall academic performance is strengthened. CATCH has developed an innovative systematic approach to Whole Child wellness that convenes and coordinates school communities in prioritizing and actionizing their students being healthy in mind, heart and body. The CATCH Coordination Kit has helped countless schools organize wellness teams and create a learning environment that teaches, supports, and reinforces healthy choices everyday. CATCH reaches 3 million youth across the world annually with evidence-based programs focused on health and physical education, social-emotional learning, youth vaping prevention, sun safety, and oral health. As part of its program approach, CATCH provides professional development through in-person and virtual trainings to equip educators, public health professionals, after-school personnel, nonprofits, and community members with the tools needed to implement and sustain CATCH programs in their schools and organizations and develop leadership skills in Whole Child health. Communities come under the CATCH umbrella in many different and collaborative ways. We have issue-specific programs that are available at no cost thanks to generous national sponsors. Other communities directly purchase programs – sometimes with state or federal funds, like SNAP Ed.
