Publication Date: 05/15/2018
Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) is a six-week, multi-component program to promote breastfeeding, healthy dietary habits, cooking skills and physical activity among Medicaid-eligible pregnant-women in Texas.
Publication Date: 03/06/2018
Are you feeling behind on all the fuss about E-cigarettes? What are they? Why are so many people using them? What’s in the big clouds of smoke? Are they safe? This webinar will answer all these questions and more.
Publication Date: 01/29/2018
In this webinar, we discuss youth targeting by the tobacco industry and best practices for cessation and prevention.
Publication Date: 11/16/2017
GAVA seeks to implement strategies targeting residents’ fruit and vegetable behavior and physical activity practice. In this talk, we will describe GAVA’s strategies, and preliminary evaluation results with a specific emphasis on parks.
Publication Date: 10/18/2017
Webinar #3 of a 4-part series.
Publication Date: 10/03/2017
This webinar is the second in the series of the Virtual Cross State Forum. The purpose of this forum is to determine the best way for those states with worksite lactation support designation programs to collaborate.
Publication Date: 09/19/2017
Data from the SPAN 2015-2016 survey.
Publication Date: 06/28/2017
Why should health messages be limited to the classroom or campus? If our goal is to create lasting health behavior change, we need to surround our audiences with positive, consistent health messages.
Publication Date: 03/01/2017
Over the last few years the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – Education (SNAP-Ed) has recognized the importance of integrating and promoting physical activity as an integral part of the program in the USDA SNAP-Ed Guidance.
Publication Date: 11/10/2016
In this month's webinar, we will discuss the importance of youth E-cigarette prevention, creation of the CATCH My Breath program, and policy and implementation efforts across the country, including pilot results from the program's launch this August.
Publication Date: 05/10/2016
Results and progress of current utilized implementation strategies, evaluation plans, sustainability efforts, and future programmatic changes for the 80 southern Illinois schools currently implementing CATCH will be explored.
Publication Date: 03/29/2016
This webinar will focus specifically on instructional and management strategies that address problems associated with teaching children with neurological challenges.
Publication Date: 01/26/2016
The CATCH Coordination Kit provides a simple yet very effective system that involves the entire faculty in the process of teaching, reinforcing and modeling healthy behaviors.
Publication Date: 11/12/2015
MD Anderson Cancer Center Investigators will present their evidence-based sun safety curriculum (Ray and the Sunbeatables™) for preschools.
Publication Date: 10/28/2015
Dr. Michael Eriksen is Regents’ Professor and founding Dean of the School of Public Health at Georgia State University.
Publication Date: 09/30/2015
Join us for the monthly CATCH webinar, with special guest Annice Garza from Los Fresnos CISD.
Publication Date: 03/17/2015
In 2011, with funds from the Affordable Care Act, CDC provided funding to 4 grantees to conduct a 4-year Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration (CORD) project, which aims to improve children’s nutrition and physical activity behaviors in the places where they live, learn, and play.
Publication Date: 02/04/2015
Feeding with Impact is a strategy to combat obesity and improve health outcomes by combining free produce distribution with evidence-based programs to increase food access and food literacy for low-income Texans
Publication Date: 11/19/2014
In this webinar we explain the new “Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child” model and what innovative statewide solutions can be done do to support schools’ efforts to improve the health of their students, staff, and teachers.
Publication Date: 10/24/2014
Do you know what new tobacco products adolescents are using? Are they harmful? What about the marketing of these products? Is e-cigarrette use amongst teens risky business?
Publication Date: 08/29/2014
In this month's CATCH webinar we spoke with 4 people who are impacting the city of Seguin, Texas.
Publication Date: 05/19/2014
The partnership between CATCH USA and the Jewish Community Centers of North America started 3 years ago. Since then, forty-one JCCs have been trained in the Discover CATCH program aiming to instill life long healthy habits in the youngest members of our community.
Publication Date: 02/28/2014
Dekalb County CATCH Champions share their story of cultivating and maintaining partnerships throughout the community.
Publication Date: 12/19/2013
Find out how physical activity can positively address neurologically-based behavior problems.
Publication Date: 10/29/2013
In this webinar we will discuss childhood obesity trends, CATCH results and strategies.
Publication Date: 04/25/2013
In this webinar we will examine Complete Streets policies and their potential impact of the health of Texans.
Publication Date: 03/07/2013
In this webinar we will discuss the potential outcomes of implementing such a policy in Texas.
Publication Date: 03/27/2018
Learn how teachers, parents, and health professionals in the school/after-school setting can equip students with answers about E-cigarettes.
Publication Date: 01/30/2018
The LunchBag intervention study has been one of the largest trials to examine this population. The results of LunchBag reveal what parents pack in their child’s lunches, what children eat, and how a theory-based intervention can make changes in parent packing behavior.
Publication Date: 11/16/2017
Webinar #4 of a 4-part series.
Publication Date: 10/24/2017
Brighter Bites Co-Founder Dr. Shreela Sharma, Executive Director Samuel Newman, and Senior Program Director Mike Pomeroy as they discuss how Brighter Bites evolved from a small home-grown idea into an evidence-based public health program that impacts tens of thousands of families.
Publication Date: 10/12/2017
Webinar #2 of a 4-part series.
Publication Date: 09/20/2017
Webinar #1 of a 4-part series.
Publication Date: 09/05/2017
Presenters will discuss lessons learned and emergent themes from their work in assessing workplace recognition initiatives across the US.
Publication Date: 05/31/2017
The Texas Mother Friendly Worksite Technical Assistance and Support Program (TMFW-TASP), in partnership with the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) Maternal and Child Health Unit, is pleased to announce a new technical and material assistance opportunity for selected public employers.
Publication Date: 02/28/2017
The Texas Mother Friendly Worksite Technical Assistance and Support Program (TMFW-TASP), in partnership with the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) Maternal and Child Health Unit, is pleased to announce a new technical and material assistance opportunity for selected public employers.
Publication Date: 10/04/2016
Please join the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living on October 4th for a webinar with special guest Dr. Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin from Yale University Medical School.
Publication Date: 04/26/2016
We are pleased to have Richard Rairigh, director of Be Active Kids, join us for this Month's CATCH webinar, "Improving Children’s Health Across North Carolina: A Collaborative Approach."
Publication Date: 02/23/2016
Pat Alridge of John Peter Smith (JPS) Health Network will share how she led efforts to earn the Texas Mother-Friendly Worksite designation for all JPS Health Network System worksites.
Publication Date: 12/02/2015
Please join us for a webinar on getting the most out of your mother-friendly workplace policy.
Publication Date: 11/09/2015
Please join us for a webinar on developing and implementing a mother-friendly policy in your workplace.
Publication Date: 10/19/2015
Join us for a Webinar to learn about earning your Texas Mother-Friendly Worksite designation.
Publication Date: 04/27/2015
Learn more about MD Anderson's Cancer Prevention efforts, and how they and CATCH will collaborate to help keep children healthy.
Publication Date: 02/10/2015
In this webinar we talk about some opportunities to get kids active outside of the school day such as, active commuting, after school programs, shared use agreements, park design, and youth sports.
Publication Date: 12/10/2014
This month's CATCH webinar will describe the Brighter Bites model and how it incorporates CATCH to promote healthier environments both at school and at home.
Publication Date: 11/13/2014
Our guest this month was Julia Richards Krapfl of the Blank Children's Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa. This webinar will review how CATCH was established in Central Iowa, expansion of the program, additional programming enhancing the CATCH curriculum, partnerships formed along the way, as well as lessons learned over the past six years.
Publication Date: 09/24/2014
In this month's CATCH webinar we spoke with Dr. Belinda Reininger about the amazing work she and a team of collaborators are undertaking to transform the community of Brownsville, Texas.
Publication Date: 05/28/2014
This webinar discusses three strategies for increasing physical activity and active learning in and out of school settings.
Publication Date: 03/12/2014
Eighty-three Texas legislators were surveyed to identify knowledge and perceptions about obesity prevention and control measures. Results from the 2013 Texas Health Perception Survey.
Publication Date: 01/31/2014
Locating funding is usually the first step in any new endeavor and I am pleased to have our good friend and CATCH Team member Kathy Chichester as our special guest this month. Kathy will be providing the tips you need to include CATCH in your winning proposal.
Publication Date: 11/14/2013
Learn about the ongoing project of putting CATCH Kids Club in the after-school programs in Nevada.
Publication Date: 06/19/2013
In this final installment of our "Child Health in the 83rd Texas Legislature" webinar series, we will examine the outcome of several bills and policies related to child health and their potential impact on the public health of Texans.
Publication Date: 04/11/2013
Student fitness is strongly related to academic performance, yet cash-strapped schools often feel stuck in the middle when it comes to choosing how to allocate limited resources: promote student health or focus solely on education?
Publication Date: 01/31/2013
In our inaugural webinar for the 83rd Texas Legislative session, we will examine policy issues related to child health likely to be considered in the coming months.
