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* Program Resources and Channels. * * The We Can! Toolkit for Action includes a variety of tools and resources, including curricula for community adult and youth programs. * Three youth curricula are being offered to the communities as either after-school or school based programs that they can provide to the children. Two of the three curricula, CATCH and Smart are two good examples of taking research based interventions and putting them to use in the community. CATCH Kids Club, based on the successful in-school program, is a physical activity and nutrition education program for elementary school-aged children (grades K–5) in afterschool and summer care settings. Both the original school-based CATCH and CATCH Kids Club use a coordinated approach to helping children adopt healthy dietary and physical activity behaviors by positively changing the health environments of recreation programs, schools and homes. The CATCH Kids Club consists of three programmatic elements: a curriculum component, a physical activity component, and a snack component. The field-tested materials include a CATCH Kids Club Activity Box, which contains activities for afterschool and community-based programs, and a binder with nutrition activities and snack recipes. Student Media Awareness to Reduce Television (S.M.A.R.T.) is a 3rd or 4th grade classroom curriculum designed to motivate children to reduce their television watching and video game usage. Studies conducted by Stanford University researchers have shown that reducing time spent watching television and playing video games can result in lower prevalence of childhood obesity as well as less aggression in children. The S.M.A.R.T. curriculum was successfully tested with elementary schools in the San Francisco Bay Area. The curriculum is intended to be used over the course of the school year and includes all the lesson plans and tools needed to implement the program. Media-Smart Youth: Eat, Think, and Be Active! is a 10-lesson curr