How to be a good neighbor to nature

How to be a good neighbor to nature

By William Cramp Fit Flyer reporters | Your neighbors, friends, and relatives aren’t the only ones who are members of your community. Baratunde Thurston says all other creatures belong to…

Doctors talk about nerves, planting trees

By William Rowen Healthy Roar reporters | Dr. Rob Schlitt and Dr. Akash Kanneganti, both resident pediatricians at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, recently visited Rowen for an…

Pets: Fun and good for your health

By Katie and East Norriton Bulldog Bulletin reporters | Pets can be fun to play with, and they can also be good for your health. The American Psychiatric Association (APA)…

CCSA launches first school health newspaper

The eighth-grade staff members at Chester Charter Scholars Academy (CCSA) are wrapping up the inaugural edition of the school’s health newspaper. It’s also Healthy NewsWorks’s first program in the city…

HNW receives Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant

Healthy NewsWorks has been awarded a three-year grant by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a leading national philanthropy focused on health and health equity.   The grant will accelerate Healthy NewsWorks’…

Feeling proud

By Aurora, La Salle Academy Healthy News | I would like to go to my local hospital and tell the kids stories, because they deserve someone to talk to. Some…

Playstreets makes streets safe for playing

By William Rowen Healthy Roar reporters | Kids look forward to summertime with no school and no homework. But those of us who live in a city may be stuck…

Students take lessons outside

By Danielle, East Norriton Bulldog Bulletin reporter | Sixth-grade students took their classroom outside for several weeks last spring to identify the nature all around them. Many found something new…

Planting trees benefits everyone

By William Rowen Healthy Roar reporters | You already know that planting trees is good for the environment, but it’s also good for the people who live nearby, according to…

Showing respect

By Bintou, Hancock Healthy Times | I show empathy by giving the same respect I would want and by feeling what others feel.  —Bintou is in fourth grade. Illustration by…