Healthy NewsWorks inspires board chair to make health changes

Healthy NewsWorks inspires board chair to make health changes

June 2015…Amy Krulik, chair of the Healthy NewsWorks advisory board, loves watching Healthy NewsWorks reporters interview people because their questions often surprise her. One time, the students asked Olympic rower…

Ovation for students at book event

[metaslider id=1029]Photos: Michelle Camperson May 2015…When Arthur C. Evans sat down for his interview with Healthy NewsWorks student journalists, he knew they had done their homework. “They gave me a…

Healthy NewsWorks teacher wins Penn award

May 2015…Congratulations to Aviva Habib, a Healthy NewsWorks teacher, who  won a recent Alumni/Early Career Award of Merit from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE). According…

Director moderates panel on food insecurity

April 2015…Healthy NewsWorks Director Marian Uhlman moderated a panel discussion on food insecurity during a recent forum at St. James School in Philadelphia. Titled “Chat and Chew – Food Insecurity: An…

Challenge: Take our healthy reporter quiz!

April 2015…Are you as smart as our Healthy NewsWorks reporters?  Take this quiz we developed to help them review topics they have learned this year. 1. Where should you go on…

Acts of Kindness = Kindness for Khulani

Student reporters initiate fundraising effort to support a special-needs school in South Africa April 2015…Fourth-grade student reporters at Highland Park Elementary School recently interviewed psychologist and radio personality Dan Gottlieb for…

‘Acts of Kindness’ posters go on display

[metaslider id=600] April 2015…Students at ten Healthy NewsWorks schools in Philadelphia, Norristown, and Upper Darby recently participated in an “Acts of Kindness” poster contest.  The students were encouraged to create a…

Reflection by a James Dobson Fit Fin reporter

Editor’s note: Julia Noelle Olszewski became a member of the James Dobson Fit Finnewspaper staff when her school joined the Healthy NewsWorks student media program in the 2014-15 school year….

Meet our 2015 health leaders

March 2015…A top infectious disease specialist, a prominent psychologist, and an artist who helps heal broken communities are among the subjects of a new book written and illustrated by students…

Arthur Evans to speak at 2015 book event

March 2015…Healthy NewsWorks is pleased to announce that Arthur Evans, the commissioner of Philadelphia’s Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services, will serve as keynote speaker at our annual…