Discovering CATCH-y New Ideas

At Brighter Bites, we support our schools however we can. One of the ways we do that is ensuring students receive nutrition education by supporting our schools’ Coordinated Approach to Child Health (CATCH) programs. To learn more about the program, we visited Anne Frank Elementary, a school in North Dallas that excels at CATCH! Alice Ball and Chris Nichols, PE coaches at Anne Frank Elementary, have been instrumental in creating a CATCH environment at their school. They routinely identify Go, Slow, and Whoa foods to encourage healthy choices and use MVP to help create models of healthy behaviors: Move and stay active, Value healthy eating, and Practice healthy habits. Alice created some great bulletin boards to remind the students of CATCH’s key messages, including one with a contest to create the best original CATCH poem or rap! Alice suggested that we create a recipe challenge for our Brighter Bites schools to target the CATCH goal of “Value healthy eating.” Our families are always telling us about the creative ways they use the produce from Brighter Bites, so we hope a recipe challenge will inspire them to continue to create healthy dishes. Thanks to the administrators, teachers, and students at Anne Frank Elementary for sharing their exceptional CATCH ideas with us! We can’t wait to share more Dallas Brighter Bites success stories in future posts!