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Healthy NewsWorks honored with GSK Impact Award for a second time

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] December 2021…Healthy NewsWorks has been recognized with a GSK Impact Award, its second time receiving the prestigious honor from GlaxoSmithKline.  Healthy NewsWorks and…

Healthy NewsWorks expands into New Jersey

November 2021 … This fall, 15 Healthy NewsWorks classrooms are hard at work on the first issues of their healthy school newspapers—including our first programs in Camden, N.J. The Catholic…

Meet the staff behind Healthy NewsWorks

October 2021 … This fall, hundreds of students in the Philadelphia region will learn to distinguish fact from fiction and how to source reliable information. Before long, they will produce…

Healthy NewsWorks has distributed hundreds of copies of its 2021 book

October 2021 … Students, teachers, and schools have received nearly 500 copies of Leading Healthy Change In Our Communities 2021: Doing the Undoable in a Pandemic.  Copies were mailed and delivered with the start of fall classes….

Healthy NewsWorks awarded Quest for Health Equity grant

September 2021…Healthy NewsWorks has been awarded a three-year grant by Quest for Health Equity (Q4HE), a Quest Diagnostics initiative that seeks to close gaps in healthcare in underserved communities. The…

Our 2021-22 curriculum is focused on healing

August 2021 … Because of everything our young reporters and their communities have experienced these past 18 months, from the pandemic to social unrest, we have chosen How We Heal: Moving…

Kids’ worlds expand with video interview opportunities

August 2021 … Healthy NewsWorks adapted quickly when schools shut down in March 2020, pivoting to helping our students journalists conduct their interviews via video. It helped that we had…

Interns create evergreen content for HNW

August 2021 … Healthy NewsWorks this summer had two interns through Bridging the Gap, an organization that links health-profession students with nonprofit community partners. Healthy NewsWorks was one of about…

See what educators say about Healthy NewsWorks curriculum

July 2021 … Healthy NewsWorks empowers elementary and middle school students to become researchers, writers, critical thinkers, and confident communicators who advance health understanding and literacy through their factual publications…

Healthy NewsWorks wins Project Innovation Grant

June 2021 … We are delighted to announce that Healthy NewsWorks has been named a winner of the Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation’s 2021 Project Innovation Grant Challenge!  The Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation…

An amazing year at Healthy NewsWorks, by the numbers

June 2021 … We are so grateful to everyone who donated their time, talent, and resources to Healthy NewsWorks this year.  Your contributions allowed our student journalists to:  Publish 28…

Healthy NewsWorks honors its 2021 Distinguished Journalists

June 2021 … Healthy NewsWorks is pleased to announce the 2021 recipients of its Distinguished Journalist Award, given each year to eighth grade reporters who have been leaders on their school…