After Care
The Y provides high-quality, affordable After School programs at 9 school sites. Our structured, caring environment includes academic enrichment, structured play, physical activity, and fun! Programs are available until 6:00pm Monday-Friday.
About the CATCH program:
CATCH stands for a Coordinated Approach To Child Health and is an evidence-based, coordinated school health program designed to promote physical activity, healthy food
choices and the prevention of tobacco use in children. The CATCH Programs cover kids from preschool through 8th grade and has been implemented in thousands of schools and after-school organizations across America and Canada.
By teaching children that eating healthy and being physically active every day can be FUN, the CATCH Program has proven that establishing healthy habits in childhood can promote behavior changes that can last a lifetime.
About the Healthy U program:
The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey Healthy U Initiative is designed to combat childhood obesity by instituting behavioral changes in children using a multi-pronged approach that includes nutrition education, increased physical activity and a focus on family.
The Healthy U program is New Jersey's largest and most comprehensive, statewide initiative to address childhood obesity in the after-school setting.
The Healthy U program uses CATCH (Coordinated Approach To Child Health) program curricula, created in 1993 by the University of Texas Science Center Houston School of Public Health.
The Healthy U program is the result of a collaborative partnership between The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey and the New Jersey YMCA State Alliance, which is comprised of all 41 YMCA member Associations throughout New Jersey. The Healthy U program reaches more than 20,000 children in 410 YMCA sites.
The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey awarded an initial $1 million grant for the program over a four-year time frame: January 2008 through December 2011.
The Foundation awarded a $143,000 additional grant to expand the program over two-and-a-half years: February 2010 through July 2012. An additional 1,800 children in Camden, New Brunswick, Newark, Trenton and Vineland will participate.
Baseline data will be collected and evaluated by the University of Texas Science Center Houston School of Public Health each year to measure the impact and progress of children taking part in the program.