Home >Keystone Healthy Zone >WeCAN! > WeCAN! ProgramsWeCAN! Programs Youth CurriculaCommunities that participate in We Can! have the option of using a variety of curricula and programs designed for youth. Each has a unique focus, but all are designed to teach young people about nutrition and physical activity issues and to become more aware of the factors that influence their eating and activity behaviors. All of them also have gone through a rigorous development and evaluation process. You can conduct these programs in their entirety or select portions of them if that works better for your organization. The programs are self-explanatory and easy-to-implement, and the curricula are available for free or at a minimal cost. 
CATCH Kids ClubCost*: $135.00 for the CATCH Kids Club Activity Box (product number W11483)*Special discount rate excludes tax (shipping and handling included). Please reference bid # 16GBIZIB in all orders.Available at: Flaghouse: http://www.flaghouse.com/CatchPE.asp; 800-793-7900 x7539.The Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health (CATCH) was a NHLBI-funded study to create a school health education curriculum designed to motivate heart healthy behavior in children in grades K-5. CATCH Kids Club, based on the successful in-school program, is a physical activity and nutrition education program for elementary school-aged children (grades K-5) in afterschool and summer care settings. Both the original school-based CATCH and CATCH Kids Club use a coordinated approach to helping children adopt healthy dietary and physical activity behaviors by positively changing the health environments of recreation programs, schools, and homes. The CATCH Kids Club consists of three programmatic elements: a nutrition education component, a physical activity component, and a snack component. The field-tested materials include a CATCH Kids Club Activity Box, which contains activities for afterschool and community-based programs, and a text with nutrition lessons that includes sampling healthy snacks; role playing; goal setting; and family involvement, in addition to the facts about healthy nutrition. The variety of activities are designed to attract children -- to get them to make the choice to participate because the games are fun. Lastly, CATCH Kids Club is easy to use -- it provides the information and resource materials to assist afterschool staff and counselors to successfully integrate structured activities and nutrition lessons into their programs. On the We Can! Web site at http://wecan.nhlbi.nih.gov, download the CATCH Kids Club Evaluation Tool together with Youth Pre-Post Instructions to start evaluating your CATCH programming. CATCH Kids Club is a creative work developed by the University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center and is fully protected by all applicable rights. All rights reserved. This product may not be reproduced without express written permission. CATCH® is a trademark of The Regents of the University of California. If you have questions or comments about reproducing CATCH Kids Club, please contact:
Peter Cribb, M.Ed. or Joey L. Walker, M.P.H.
Media-Smart Youth: Eat, Think, and Be Active!Cost: FreeAvailable at: The NICHD Information Resource Center by calling 1-800-370-2943 (TTY: 1-888-320-6942) emailing NICHDInformationResourceCenter@mail.nih.gov or ordering online at http://www.nichd.nih.gov. The curriculum will be available Winter 2006.Media-Smart Youth: Eat, Think, and Be Active! is a 10-lesson curriculum funded by the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) that focuses on helping young people ages 11 to 13 understand the connections between media and health. The program uses nutrition and physical activity examples to help youth learn about these connections and build their media analysis skills. Media-Smart Youth brings together a mix of learning formats, including brainstorming, small- and large-group discussions, games, and creative productions. All these activities are intended to create discussion and encourage problem solving and critical thinking. The curriculum includes 10 structured lessons with activities that explore media, nutrition, or physical activity topics. Each lesson also includes a Snack Break and an Action Break. These breaks reflect the nutrition and physical activity content of the curriculum and provide a fun, hands-on way to experience these concepts. The curriculum concludes with a Big Production—an opportunity for participants to use what they have learned to create a media project designed to motivate other young people to take action for better nutrition or increased physical activity. In the process, the youth learn new skills in production, teamwork, and creativity. On the We Can! Web site at http://wecan.nhlbi.nih.gov, download the Media-Smart Youth Evaluation Tool together with Youth Curriculum Evaluation Instructions for Facilitators to start evaluating your Media-Smart Youth programming. 
Student Media Awareness to Reduce Television (S.M.A.R.T.)Cost: $160 (*special discount rate excludes tax and shipping/handling)Available at: http://notv.stanford.edu Payment Method: Online credit card orders at the discount rate can not be accepted. Please call (650) 723-0003 to receive the discount rate using a credit card. Checks and purchase orders can be accepted at the discount rate. Please reference We Can! in all orders.Student Media Awareness to Reduce Television (S.M.A.R.T.) is a 3rd to 4th grade classroom curriculum designed to motivate children to reduce their television watching and video game usage. Studies conducted by Stanford University researchers have shown that reducing time spent watching television and playing video games can result in lower prevalence of childhood obesity as well as less aggression in children. The S.M.A.R.T. curriculum was successfully tested with elementary schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. The curriculum is intended to be used over the course of the school year and includes all the lesson plans and tools needed to implement the program. On the We Can! Web site at http://wecan.nhlbi.nih.gov, download the S.M.A.R.T. Evaluation Tool together with the Youth Curriculum Evaluation Instructions for Facilitators to start evaluating your S.M.A.R.T. programming. S.M.A.R.T. was developed by child health and behavior researchers in the Department of Pediatrics and the Stanford Prevention Research Center at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The curriculum is copyrighted by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University and is fully protected by all applicable rights. Please address any questions regarding the reproduction of this curriculum to: The Health Promotion Resource Center
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