What is
MATCH?

MATCH is an interdisciplinary approach to wellness that empowers adolescents to make healthy choices. Focusing on nutrition education and increasing physical activity, MATCH produces sustainable improvement in weight status now and, years later.

More than
just a Curriculum

MATCH is not only a behavior modification program that engages students to become healthier, but is also a data management system - key to ensuring fidelity and providing stakeholders with real-time data for decision making.

One Solution
for All

MATCH meets the educational objectives and needs of our teachers and administrators without creating "more work", while achieving wellness outcomes in students - creating a win-win for all!

About MATCH

Motivating Adolescents with Technology to CHOOSE Health is a teacher-developed interdisciplinary approach to student wellness that integrates physical activity, nutrition, and technology education.

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Why Choose MATCH?

MATCH lessons and activities are more relevant to students than regular lessons- using their own data to set goals and build a knowledge-base for making healthy choices.
Designed to save time while meeting course objectives, 94% of teachers surveyed indicate they would teach MATCH again.
MATCH provides administrators all they need at a glance to monitor implementations, with easy to use filters to customize reports.
MATCH employs "tiered accountability" for transparency for all aspects of implementation, providing oversight from start to finish.

2023-24 Year

Benefits and Features

MATCH works for ALL!

SNAP-Ed Directors

Most effective childhood obesity intervention.

MATCH meets the mission of the FNS and SNAP-Ed goals. Choose the Only effective middle-school childhood obesity intervention producing consistant, sustainable results.

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Students

Students get and stay engaged.

MATCH works for students by teaching them to make healthy choices when it comes to eating, physical activity and use of sedentary technology.

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Teachers

Developed by a teacher.

MATCH was developed by a teacher, for teachers. MATCH teaches educational objectives using wellness themes without creating more work for teachers "to do".

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Administrators

Provides an intuitive data warehouse.

MATCH puts a data warehouse at the fingertips of administrators for real-time reporting of BMI Status, Fitness, Bullying and Health Behavior analysis.

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Businesses

Fosters a leaner workforce.

MATCH works for Businesses by fostering a leaner workforce, reducing costs and increasing worker productivity.

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Foundations

Positive returns on investment.

MATCH is chosen by Foundations due to consistent and sustainable results in health outcomes producing a positive return on investment.

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What do teachers think of MATCH?

Professionals Say

MATCH Proponents Quotes

"The consistent measured outcomes with decreases in weight status among young adolescents after MATCH participation, and the sustained improvements into the high school years, suggest a powerful potential of the program to improve health and reduce healthcare costs."

Robin G. Cummings, M.D.
Former State of North Carolina Deputy Secretary for Medicaid and Interim State Health Director

"MATCH has demonstrated effect on improving weight status of participants into the High School years, notably the only school-based intervention with sustained effectiveness."

Rear Admiral Penelope Slade-Sawyer
USPHS, Retired

"Based upon the detailed assessments and overall ratings by the two expert reviewers, MATCH met the established review criteria for research-tested interventions."

Alice Ammerman DRPH
Director, Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Professor, Deptartment of Nutrition Gillings School of Global Public Health and School of Medicine University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"The students impacted by MATCH live in areas of our state with the highest poverty and greatest health disparity, and most obesogenic environments. From our perspective, success here translates to success anywhere…"

Jennifer Zuckerman
Former Director of Strategic Partnerships The Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina Foundation

"The Trust (Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust) has made investment in MATCH for one key reason: it works... Few programs have demonstrated this level of results for the investment."

Jehan Benton-Clark
Former Senior Program Officer Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust

"...it is very important when we find programs that work, that we figure out how we can replicate it."

Shellie Y. Pfohl, MS
Former Director of the President Obama's Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition

Implementation Recognition