b'Creating this bookLeading Healthy Change In Our Communities is a capstone project of the Healthy NewsWorks program, which teaches journalism principles to elementary and middle school students and encourages them to advance their health understanding. This book was produced largely before Pennsylvania schools were shut down because of the COVID-19 outbreak. The ninth edition in a series, Leading Healthy Change In Our Communities 2020 will be published online and will be shared in classrooms once children return to school.We want to extend a big thank you to the health leaders featured in this book for sogenerously donating their time and sharing their insights with our student journalists.We deeply appreciate the talented efforts of the students whose work is published hereas well as the participation and cooperation of the teachers and school administrators who helped make this book possible.We also are grateful for the dedication to this project shown by Healthy NewsWorksProgram Manager Mia Blitstein and our team of editors, Mary Lowe Kennedy,Susan FitzGerald, John Fried, Andrea Kenyon, Ted Duncombe, and Dana Reddington; designer Craig Reese; and printer The Homer Group. Thanks to Healthy NewsWorks staffers Diane Davis and Amy Deahl-Greenlaw as well for their many contributionsto our program. Lillian Swanson, Editor, Leading Healthy Change In Our Communities 2020On the cover Illustration by Morgan Prodorutti, sixth grade, James Dobson Fit Fin. 2020 Healthy NewsWorks. All rights reserved. www.HealthyNewsWorks.orgiv'