American Academy of Pediatrics: Community Access to Child Health (CATCH)

Community Access to Child Health (CATCH), a national program of the American Academy of Pediatrics, encourages pediatricians to collaborate within their communities to advance the health of all children.

CATCH offers the following funding opportunities:

• CATCH Planning and Implementation Grants
  This initiative provides grants of up to $10,000 for pediatricians and fellowship trainees in the initial stages of developing and implementing innovative, community-based initiatives that increase children’s access to medical homes, immunization services, or specific health services not otherwise available.
   
• CATCH Resident Grants
  This initiative provides grants of up to $2,000 for pediatric residents to plan and/or implement innovative, community-based initiatives that increase children’s access to medical homes, immunization services, and specific health services not otherwise available. Projects must include planning activities or demonstrate completed planning activities, and may include implementation activities.

Note: CATCH occasionally offers targeted funding opportunities along with the regular grant programs. For the current funding cycle, CATCH is partnering with the National Dairy Council to support pediatricians to conduct community‐based projects that advance child health and well‐being. The focus is on promoting all healthy foods, including dairy foods, and healthy communities for the food insecure population. Funds are available to fund multiple projects that work with a variety of community partners such as food banks/pantries, schools, and community resources, including but not limited to local farmer’s markets, when food insecurity is identified in their communities.

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