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Healthy NewsWorks highlighted in Penn alumni magazine
The Penn GSE Magazine recently featured Healthy NewsWorks Program Manager Mia Blitstein and...
Looking back at the Block Party
Student reporters, their families, and community volunteers gathered June 2 for a festive...
Panel discusses “How We Heal” film
Healthy NewsWorks was honored to screen its award-winning film “How We Heal” as part of a...
WATCH: An animated version of an original student comic
Eighth-grade artist Liliana Diaz's original comic, “A Sticky Situation,” first ran in the Catholic...
Check out our Spring 2024 magazine!
The Spring 2024 edition of our By Kids, For Kids magazine is now available online! This...
Looking back: When HNW spoke with Dawn Staley
Over the past two decades, Healthy NewsWorks reporters have had enviable opportunities to...
Get into the action: Sponsor our Block Party
Companies and organizations wishing to sponsor our upcoming Block Party and our Fall 2024 By Kids,...
Teacher is no pushover in push-up contest
A brave fourth grader at Russell Byers Charter School in Philadelphia recently declared that he...
Two editions of ‘By Kids, For Kids’ coming this year
Two new installments of Healthy NewsWorks’ By Kids, For Kids magazine are set for publication this...
A look back at the beginning with HNW’s co-founder
Susan Spencer was a second-grade teacher in Upper Darby, Pa., when she and a student’s parent,...
HNW receives second AstraZeneca health equity award
Healthy NewsWorks has received a Community Solutions Challenge award for the second year in a row...
HNW connects with parents outside the classroom
After 20 years of working to increase children’s health awareness and understanding, Healthy...
Board welcomes attorney Conor Foley
Healthy NewsWorks is pleased to welcome attorney Conor Foley to its board as an observer for the...
New schools join HNW network
Congratulations to Philadelphia Hebrew Public Charter School (PHP), Russell Byers Charter School,...
Building a Healthy Future Campaign off to a terrific start
Dear Friends of Healthy NewsWorks: Thanks to the generosity of many individuals, our Building a...
Become a Block Party sponsor
Healthy NewsWorks is planning a Block Party on Sunday, June 2, to celebrate our student reporters’...
Our 2023 film is now available!
https://vimeo.com/885840184 "Special Feature on Health and Climate Change," a new film from...
Help us build a healthy future for Healthy NewsWorks
Little did we know when Healthy NewsWorks published its first student newspaper 20 years ago that...
Healthy NewsWorks is in more classrooms than ever
School is in full swing, and Healthy NewsWorks is in more classrooms than ever. “So many teachers...
Thank you for making our first-ever auction such a success!
Update: We are thrilled by the success of our first-ever auction, which raised more than $4,000 to...
Healthy NewsWorks highlighted in Penn alumni magazine
The Penn GSE Magazine recently featured Healthy NewsWorks Program Manager Mia Blitstein and...
Looking back at the Block Party
Student reporters, their families, and community volunteers gathered June 2 for a festive...
Panel discusses “How We Heal” film
Healthy NewsWorks was honored to screen its award-winning film “How We Heal” as part of a...
WATCH: An animated version of an original student comic
Eighth-grade artist Liliana Diaz's original comic, “A Sticky Situation,” first ran in the Catholic...
Check out our Spring 2024 magazine!
The Spring 2024 edition of our By Kids, For Kids magazine is now available online! This...
Looking back: When HNW spoke with Dawn Staley
Over the past two decades, Healthy NewsWorks reporters have had enviable opportunities to...
Get into the action: Sponsor our Block Party
Companies and organizations wishing to sponsor our upcoming Block Party and our Fall 2024 By Kids,...
Teacher is no pushover in push-up contest
A brave fourth grader at Russell Byers Charter School in Philadelphia recently declared that he...
Two editions of ‘By Kids, For Kids’ coming this year
Two new installments of Healthy NewsWorks’ By Kids, For Kids magazine are set for publication this...
A look back at the beginning with HNW’s co-founder
Susan Spencer was a second-grade teacher in Upper Darby, Pa., when she and a student’s parent,...
HNW receives second AstraZeneca health equity award
Healthy NewsWorks has received a Community Solutions Challenge award for the second year in a row...
HNW connects with parents outside the classroom
After 20 years of working to increase children’s health awareness and understanding, Healthy...
Board welcomes attorney Conor Foley
Healthy NewsWorks is pleased to welcome attorney Conor Foley to its board as an observer for the...
New schools join HNW network
Congratulations to Philadelphia Hebrew Public Charter School (PHP), Russell Byers Charter School,...
Building a Healthy Future Campaign off to a terrific start
Dear Friends of Healthy NewsWorks: Thanks to the generosity of many individuals, our Building a...
Become a Block Party sponsor
Healthy NewsWorks is planning a Block Party on Sunday, June 2, to celebrate our student reporters’...
Our 2023 film is now available!
https://vimeo.com/885840184 "Special Feature on Health and Climate Change," a new film from...
Help us build a healthy future for Healthy NewsWorks
Little did we know when Healthy NewsWorks published its first student newspaper 20 years ago that...
Healthy NewsWorks is in more classrooms than ever
School is in full swing, and Healthy NewsWorks is in more classrooms than ever. “So many teachers...
Thank you for making our first-ever auction such a success!
Update: We are thrilled by the success of our first-ever auction, which raised more than $4,000 to...
