Wellness Program Finder

CATCH Kids Club (CKC) is a nutrition education and physical activity program designed for elementary and middle school-aged children (grades K – 8) in an after-school or summer setting. CKC is composed of nutrition education (including snack activities) and physical activities to encourage active living & healthy eating. The CKC health program for kids offers an easy-to-use format that both children and staff enjoy and is easy to implement.

Students engage in Nutrition Lessons and complete 30-60 mins of physical activity benefitting their overall health and development.

CATCH Kids club can be implemented in any setting with minimal space, or virtually. Our BronxWorks SNAP-Ed Nutrition Educators will facilitate the program at no cost. All lessons are hands on, engaging, and evidenced based.

 If staff in schools are interested, a train-the-trainer workshop can be coordinated.

The CFL empowers young people to take control of their wellness through fun, hands-on, multi-disciplinary food arts and sciences discovery labs. In a CFL lab, students learn the cool stories behind ingredients they eat all the time but may know little about, such as: wheat, oats, carrots, milk, corn, eggs, avocado, cacao, and herbs. Then, using all five senses, students explore those ingredients and cook with them.

We teach them the stories behind their foods -- how it's grown, its history, science, art, and nutritional benefits.

The Children's Garden at BBG is a little over an acre of land where children ages 2 to 13 can sow, tend, and harvest herbs, flowers, and vegetables in plots they collectively maintain. The program offers three seasons of sessions; in addition to cultivation of edible plants participants learn about composting, cooking, do nature studies, practice weed and pest identification.

Students learn about the life cycles of plants and ecological relationships among living organisms in the garden through their cultivation of edible plants. Many children return season after season; it's the place where they learn about where their food comes from and take ownership and pride of the land they cultivate.

Most participants share a plot with one other person in which they grow a wide variety of produce and flowers seasonally. Responsible for all tasks they build skills and understandings they'll have forever. The responsibility and ownership children build with relationship to their plots and plants is profound.

This is a gardening program for 6-12 year olds at the Edible Academy at NYBG, in which students tend to their own plots and grow food crops. There is also a version for 3-5 year olds and their caretakers doing similar activities. 

The students learn how to garden, work cooperatively, learn basic botany and where their food comes from. It also provides physical exercise and the ability to work outdoors. This program focuses on gardening and growing food as the method to physical and mental wellness, although similar programs exist at other gardens.

The Fun Cooking Magazine for Families teaches children and their families how to cook real food at home for a healthful life and family bonding.

We are the only STEM and life-skills focused cooking magazine written for children.

This quarterly magazine can be used in the classroom and goes home with the children

CHI takes a comprehensive approach to addressing the social determinants of our health here in the Bronx. Our department uses a multi-pronged approach to address food insecurity, health education, and access to green spaces that plague the South Bronx. We focus on supporting the whole family as they work towards a healthier and more affordable lifestyle. 

We currently have a rooftop garden onsite used to provide educational garden clubs for K-8 students and their families.​ During the week, students learn about food justice, sustanability and local produce through hands-on gardening education. All the food grown in our garden is used by our pantry program, for community distribution or nutrition cooking demonstrations designed to boost student and their families understanding of eating a diet high in fruit, vegetables, and whole grains. 

Our program aims to support the whole family by using a multipronged approach. We teach students during the day about the growing process but regualry provide programing to the whole family to help students feel supported in a healthier lifestyle at school and at home.