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CATCH onto Health: Promoting Health and Physical Activity In the Illinois Delta Region
Egyptian Health Department (EHD), as a member of the Illinois CATCH onto Health! Consortium is extremely pleased to be a collaborating partner in an exciting grant-funded childrens health program called CATCH (Coordinated Approach To Child Health).
CATCH is an evidence-based coordinated school health program designed to promote physical activity, healthy food choices, and prevent tobacco use in elementary school-aged children. CATCH uses several aspects of the school environment and involves classroom teachers, school food service staff, physical education (PE) teachers, students families, and the broader school community in a range of health promoting activities for all children in grades K-5.
FOUR CORE COMPONENTS
1. Eat Smart school nutrition,
2. Go for Health Classroom Curriculum,
3. CATCH Physical Education ,
4. Family Home Team activities
Plus two additional programs:
THE RATIONAL
The coordination of health messages and activities between these four component areas is essential to positively impact children's knowledge, skills, and behavior. By establishing healthy behaviors in childhood, CATCH proves nutrition learning and physical activity can be FUN! For nearly 20 years, CATCH has guided schools, families, and children in healthy living. CATCH has developed an evidence base that demonstrates the effectiveness of CATCH at improving physical activity and nutrition (decreasing fat consumption) as well as maintaining those changes across time. Recently, a CATCH program in El Paso, Texas reported significant effects of CATCH on preventing the onset of overweight and obesity among school-aged children. Read more about CATCH Research and Development .
ABOUT DELTA GRANT
The six-year Delta States Rural Development Network Grant Program is funded by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration office of Rural Health Policy and is administered in southern Illinois by Southern Illinois University-Carbondales Center for Rural Health and Social Service Development (SIUC-CRHSSD).
Grantee Directory: Delta States Rural Development Network Grant Program 2010-2013 contains a directory of the Delta States Rural Development Grant Program in the 2010-2013 funding cycle, including contact information for each grantee. The Delta States region consists of Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee.
The Illinois CATCH onto Health! Consortium includes SIUC-CRHSSD www.siu.edu/~crhssd/ as well as four Illinois Delta Region partnership organizations Egyptian Health Department www.egyptian.org , Southern Illinois Healthcare www.sih.net , Southern Seven Health Department www.southern7.org , and Jackson County Health Department www.jchdonline.org .
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ILLINOIS TOBACCO-FREE COMMUNITIES PROGRAM
The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), Office of Health Promotion, provides funding to Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department to implement tobacco control and prevention programs within Gallatin, Saline, and White counties. The long-term mission of the program is to eliminate morbidity and mortality related to tobacco use among Illinois residents and to reduce the economic burden of treating tobacco-related illnesses. Click here to learn more .
Our Team
Phyllis Wood | CATCH Director
Julie Patton | Tobacco Grant/ CATCH Specialist
Phyllis Wood Statement:
EHD is very excited to bring the CATCH program to our service region of Hamilton, White, Saline, Gallatin, Pope and Hardin County schools! CATCH, when used as part of a school's wellness policy, has demonstrated positive outcomes regarding the improvement of students academic performance as well as providing them with healthy living skills that will last a lifetime. It just makes sense, healthy children make better learners!
In our area, we currently have ten elementary schools, one in Gallatin County, four in Saline County, three in White County and two in Hamilton County, joining more than 7500 CATCH schools nationwide currently implementing CATCH. We have a variety of projects planned for each school, beginning with hosting a CATCH training day for school staff, distributing newsletters for families, sponsoring a family fun event, and purchasing additional physical education equipment.
We are excited to annouce that CATCH has recently expanded to include CATCH Early Childhood/Pre-Kindergarten and the CATCH Kid's Club Afterschool programs. We currently have two pre-kindergartens as CATCH schools, Carmi White County's Pre-K and Harrisburg's Pre-K. We also have a Kid's Club Afterschool program at Harrisburg West Side Primary.
Each school has a school champion, someone who serves as an enthusiastic supporter of the CATCH program and as a liaison between the school and EHD:
Carmi's Jefferson and Lincoln Attendance Centers - Mrs. Cindy Colman
Crossville Attendance Center - Mrs. Stephanie Newcomb
Eldorado Elementary - Mrs. Lori Woolcott
Carrier Mills/Stonefort Elementary - Mrs. Phyllis Bradley
Gallatin County Elementary - Ms. Mercedes Naas
Harrisburg East Side Intermediate - Mrs. Lori Porter
Harrisburg West Side Primary - Mr. Scott Dewar
Dahlgren Elementary - Mr. Jeff Fetcho
McLeansboro East Side - Mrs. Jackie Frey.
Julie Patton, EHD's Tobacco Grant/CATCH Specialist is an essential member of EHD's CATCH team, and provides information and assistance to each school.
Julie and I are looking forward to working with each school's staff as they eagerly introduce the CATCH program into their school. We are expecting a terrific year and some equally terrific results from both staff and students!
Our ultimate goal is to recruit all our area schools into the CATCH program, so if anyone wants to learn more about this exciting program, we encourage them to contact EHD, visit the Illinois CATCH onto Health Consortium's CATCH website at www.catchontohealth.siuc.edu , the national website www.catchinfo.org or the CATCH Texas website ww2.sph.uth.tmc.edu/catch/ .
Click on Calendar
Calendar shows events, trainings, and webinars.
2-21-12 Tobacco Cessation Workshop Flyer.pdf
3-20-12 Tobacco Cessation Workshop.pdf
4-17-12 Tobacco Cessation Workshop.pdf
5-15-12 Tobacco Cessation Workshop.pdf
6-19-12 Tobacco Cessation Workshop.pdf
Got the Dot?
Are You At Risk For Heart Disease?
¿Está usted en riesgo de enfermarse del corazón?
Multi-Drug Interaction Checker
Illinois tobacco Quitline
Health Literacy Toolkit
Henry the Hand is the ONLY program teaching that putting your finger into your eye, nose or mouth (4th Principle) is the most common method for contamination/inoculation causing ones illness. The Publics AWARENESS of this single behavior would help prevent a Pandemic!
Handwashing: Clean Hands Saves Lives
SIECUS-the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States - was founded in 1964 to provide education and information about sexuality and sexual and reproductive health.
Community Action Kit
SexEd Library
Welcome to the Diseases and Conditions Index (DCI) . This Web-based health index is a quick, easy, and dependable source for information about heart, lung, and blood diseases and sleep disorders. New topics will be added regularly.
The Illinois Poison Center
The National Pediculosis Association
Nicotine Anonymous is a Non-Profit 12 Step Fellowship of men and women helping each other live nicotine-free lives. Nicotine Anonymous welcomes all those seeking freedom from nicotine addiction, including those using cessation programs and nicotine withdrawal aids. The primary purpose of Nicotine Anonymous is to help all those who would like to cease using tobacco and nicotine products in any form. The Fellowship offers group support and recovery using the 12 Steps as adapted from Alcoholics Anonymous to achieve abstinence from nicotine.
American Cancer Society gives grant to fight obesity News Video: http://www.kfvs12.com/category/195950/video-landing-page?
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Study to look at lung cancer in Southern Illinois
ATTUD believes that the recent Alpert et al. (2012) study reports a conclusion - that NRT is not effective - which is not supported by the data, and which may well discourage smokers from accessing the most commonly used scientifically-proven treatment, and has responded with this statement.
Study finds drug industry cessation products haven't enhanced, but rather have hindered, smoking cessation efforts .
E-Cigarettes Vary Widely
ACSH criticizes Denise Mann's disinformation about dissolvable tobacco products
Clinical laboratory assessment of the abuse liability of an electronic cigarette (Andrea R Vansickel Ph.D.1, Michael F Weaver M.D.2, Thomas Eissenberg Ph.D.3). To provide an initial abuse liability assessment of an electronic cigarette (EC) in current tobacco cigarette smokers.
UK: E-cigarettes: A safer way to puff
E-cigarettes could save hundreds of thousands of lives.
Ohio Schools Start Piloting Universal Free Breakfast (Coshocton Tribune, January 6, 2012)
According to Jennifer Andrews, food service coordinator for Ohios Coshocton City Schools, fewer than a third (500) students participate in school breakfast. To increase participation, the district has begun offering free (universal) breakfast to all students, on Mondays. We chose Monday because its been observed that our students seem especially hungry on Mondays, said Andrews, who heard about the benefits of offering breakfast to all students when she attended several directors conferences. Many districts in the state offer universal breakfast. Currently, 68 percent (1,102) of Coshoctons 1,622 students qualify for free or reduced-price school meals. [T]he reimbursement we receive should cover most if not all of the cost of providing this meal, said Andrews. According to USDA, offering all students free breakfast reduces the stigma attached to free or reduced-price meals and should increase participation. Research shows that free universal breakfast not only increases participation, but decreases student absences and tardiness.
More Missouri Schools Will Serve Breakfast in the Classroom in 2012 (News-Leader, January 7, 2012)
A year ago, Springfield, Missouri Public Schools began piloting breakfast in the classroom, free to all students, at 15 elementary schools and one middle school. The programs success has prompted 11 more schools, including the first high school, to begin the program in 2012. School district officials support the program, noting that hungry students cant learn, and principals and teachers at schools serving breakfast in the classroom have reported more focused and better-behaved students, according to superintendent Norm Ridder. Were responding to immediate needsWe may have solved the problem of making sure kids are fed, he said. According to Wanita Watts, the districts director of nutrition services, the biggest hurdle to starting breakfast in the classroom at a school is the startup cost, $250 per classroom, which covers the delivery cart and storage. The school system also is looking at starting a Saturday feeding center at one middle school.
MDPA President to Take the Kid's Meal Challenge Scott Ehrlich will undergo a 28-day diet of only kid's meals to test health effects
ATLANTA, GA [January 13, 2012]--Beginning January 16th, MDPA President Scott Ehrlich will undertake the Kid's Meal Challenge, where he will consume only kid's meals thrice a day for 28 days to test the effects of the meals on his health. Ehrlich created this challenge in order to test whether or not kid's meals actually present a serious danger to children's health. He is doing this in part due to some actual and proposed regulatory steps taken nationwide, including the Interagency Workgroup recommendations.
News continues on page 4.
Child Obesity Drops in New York City (ABC News, December 15, 2011)
According to research published in the December 16 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the percentage of New York City kindergarten through eighth grade students classified as obese dropped over the past ten years from 21.9 percent to 20.7 percent. The decline occurred across age, socioeconomic and racial/ethnic groups, with the greatest declines occurring in children ages 5 to 6 (20.2 percent to 18.2 percent), Whites (17.6 percent to 15.4 percent), Asian/Pacific Islanders (14.5 percent to 13.4 percent) and children in low poverty areas (18.0 percent to 16.6 percent). Although cause and effect cannot be inferred from the study, interventions in the city possibly contributed to the declines. The city established child nutrition regulations in group child care, school nurses were charged with identifying children at high risk of obesity and notifying parents, cafeteria food nutritional quality was improved, teachers gave in-class physical activity breaks, and parents received individual body mass index and fitness reports on their children.
Review: Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs Work
CME/CE Medscape Education Clinical Briefs, December 12, 2011
Some of the most effective intervention strategies included:
having a school curriculum that places an emphasis on healthy eating, physical activity, and body image;
increasing opportunities for physical activity and the development of fundamental movement skills during the school week;
improving the nutritional quality of school-supplied food;
establishing environments and cultural practices within schools that support physical activity and children eating healthier foods throughout the day;
offering professional development to support teachers and other staff in implementing health promotion strategies and activities; and
supporting parents and home activities that focus on activity, eating more nutritious foods, and spending less time in screen-based activities.
"The evidence is strong...that once obesity is established, it is both difficult to reverse through interventions, and tracks through to adulthood, strengthening the case for primary prevention," the authors write.
Smoking, Lack of Mastery Increase Risk for Depression Recurrence
CME/CE Medscape Education Clinical Briefs, December 9, 2011
Smoking and feeling a lack of control over life circumstances appear to significantly increase the risk for recurrence of depression, a large, population-based longitudinal study shows.
"People with major depression who were current smokers or had low levels of mastery were at an increased risk of repeated episodes of depression," the investigators, led by Ian Colman, PhD, from the University of Ottawa, Canada, write.
Recent Study Suggests that Tobacco Treatment During Drug Treatment is Rare
Excerpts:
"Although a number of programs reported they offer counseling, pharmacotherapy, and other key components of evidence-based tobacco treatment, few actually provided any treatment and none did so systematically."
"Our findings confirm and augment the findings of other studies. Richter et al. (2004) and Walsh et al. (2005) found that even in facilities that report providing tobacco services, few clients actually received treatment."
National African American Tobacco Prevention Network (NAATPN) unveils new website
The National African American Tobacco Prevention Network (NAATPN) has launched a brand new website to create a one-stop repository of information on tobacco control issues affecting the black community. The site is also designed to keep the community abreast of current events, trends and the latest happenings in tobacco control relevant to African Americans. The new website is more user friendly, and some of its new features include articles and journals from experts in African American tobacco use, an interactive map, and an updated list of culturally and community appropriate cessation materials and resources. As one of six CDC-funded national networks, the NAATPN is dedicated to facilitating the development and implementation of comprehensive and community competent tobacco control programs to benefit communities and people of African descent. Participation in NAATPN is open to any individual or organization that is willing to assist in decreasing the impact of tobacco in Black communities. Click here to access the website, www.naatpn.org . For more information about NAATPN and joining the network, contact thenetwork_naatpn.org.
Tobacco Prevention Funding Cuts
JACKSON CO. - States across the nation are cutting funding for tobacco prevention programs. According to the American Cancer Society, states will collect more than $25 billion from tobacco, but will spend less than two percent of that on prevention programs.
Effect of an electronic nicotine delivery device (e-Cigarette) on smoking reduction and cessation: a prospective 6-month pilot study
Cigarette smoking is a tough addiction to break. Therefore, improved approaches to smoking cessation are necessary. The electronic-cigarette (e-Cigarette), a battery-powered electronic nicotine delivery device (ENDD) resembling a cigarette, may help smokers to remain abstinent during their quit attempt or to reduce cigarette consumption. Efficacy and safety of these devices in long-term smoking cessation and/or smoking reduction studies have never been investigated.
Rate of Nicotine Metabolism and Withdrawal Symptoms in Adolescent Light Smokers
NIH study examines nicotine as a gateway drug
( NIDA-funded research in mice shows that nicotine primes the brain to enhance cocaines effects)
A landmark study in mice identifies a biological mechanism that could help explain how tobacco products could act as gateway drugs, increasing a person's future likelihood of abusing cocaine and perhaps other drugs as well, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health. The study is the first to show that nicotine might prime the brain to enhance the behavioral effects of cocaine.
Electronic Cigarettes: How They Are - and Could Be - Regulated is one of a series of fact sheets - called FDA Law Notes - that PHLP has produced to explain issues related to the 2009 FDA Law
9. The Electronic Cigarette
Affordable Care Act program to help healthcare professionals improve care for patients and reduce costs in their communities
3 featured videos of 5 total, scroll down to view more videos.
V1: Egyptian Health Department, Southern 7 Health Department, Southern Illinois Healthcare talking about CATCH in Southern Illinois.
V2: Thinking of booking the Jump with Jill show and wanting to know exactly what your students will learn? Read more!
V3: CATCH (Coordinated Approach To Child Health) is an evidence-based, coordinated school health program
V4: Thanks to the generosity of our colleagues in New York State there are now two excellent, free videos for people with nicotine and co-occurring disorders. Tony Klein, an early pioneers integrating nicotine dependence treatment into addiction services is featured on these videos .
V5: Help to Stop Smoking - Mayo Clinic video .
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CATCH (Coordinated Approach To Child Health) is an evidence-based, coordinated school health program designed to promote physical activity and healthy food choices, and prevent tobacco use in children from preschool through grade 8. The CATCH Program focuses on four of the 8 components of coordinated school health:
For more information about CATCH go to www.catchinfo.org .
Our Scope
We are working with 53 out of 106 schools in 16 Southern Illinois counties to implement CATCH.
Partners Involved:
Jackson County Health Department
SIUC Center for Rural Health & Social Service Development
Southern Seven Health Department
Southern Illinois Healthcare
Currently Funding Provided by:
Illinois Delta Network
Illinois Department of Human Services
Kohls Cares for Kids
History
The Illinois CATCH onto Health! Consortium (ICHC) applies a planned, systemic, and coordinated school-based approach to behavioral and environmental change as related to the improvement of children's nutrition and physical activity, and the reduction of obesity rates.
