CATCH onto Health! SIUC

CATCH onto Health!

Welcome to the home of CATCH for Southern Illinois. Here, you can learn about the Coordinated Approach To Child Health program, and all of the wonderful things we are doing for kids, their families, and the schools they attend. We cannot be more proud of the schools that choose to participate in CATCH.

Jump with Jill

This picture is from Jump with Jill in Eldorado, IL

33 CATCH Locations Ridgway, IL Farmers Market

View The Brookport Elementary Slide Show Here.

Illinois Delta Network
The Center for Rural Health and Social Service Development (CRHSSD) is a sector of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL. The CRHSSD oversees the Illinois Delta Network, which is funded by the United States Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). This funding has enabled the CRHSSD to implement the Illinois Catch on to Health! and the Caring Connections Individualized Education Plan (IEP) Enhancement Program.
The Illinois CATCH on to Health! Consortium (ICHC) applies a planned, systemic, and coordinated school-based approach to behavioral and environmental change to improve children’s nutrition and physical activity as well as decrease childhood obesity.

To address these needs, ICHC selected the Coordinated Approach to Child Health (CATCH) as the primary change strategy and decided to focus its nutrition and physical activity project on elementary school children in the Illinois Delta Region. To implement this project, CRHSSD collaborates with Southern Illinois Healthcare, Egyptian Health Department, and Southern Seven Health Department.

Contact The CRHSSD Here.

To learn more about our partners, please visit the Partners Page.