Reaching a milestone 15 years of making a difference in children’s lives 47 Healthy NewsWorks got its start in 2003 working with 15 student reporters to produce our first health-focused newspaper, the Hillcrest Healthy Times, in one school in Upper Darby, Pa. Today, we’re in 14 schools in Philadelphia and Norristown and have some 340 newspaper reporters in grades 3 to 8 and another 350 junior reporters in grades K–2. We help elementary and middle school students develop research, interviewing, writing, and crit- ical-thinking skills that they use as reporters on school-based health newspapers and the book you’re reading now. They learn how to tell what is true and what is false, what is a source you can rely on, and what to ignore. And in the process, they create student publications that provide health information and literacy enrichment for the entire school community. With the support of teachers, volunteers, and community members, our young reporters not only gain academic skills and confidence, but they become health messengers, educators, and role models. As one third grade reporter put it, “I love that I can teach people, big and small, about how to be healthy.” Among our achievements over the years: •  Our student reporters collaborated with students from Lawrence University in Wisconsin in 2016 on two public health videos that were then shared with primary school students in Sierra Leone, Africa. •  We received several awards, including a public health award in 2016 from the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, one of the nation’s oldest professional medical associations. •  In 2017, we began our Hearty Kids initiative, promoting heart health awareness for students in grades K–2. We’re now at an important juncture. Having been a program of other nonprofits for the past several years, we began operating as an independent nonprofit organization in March 2018. Thanks to a three-year capacity-building grant from The Grace S. and W. Linton Nelson Foundation, we’ve been able to engage educational and development experts who are working to help us build for the future. We are grateful to all who have helped us along this journey. We are excited to see how future cohorts of student journalists continue to build on this legacy to foster greater aware- ness of health among their peers and in the broader community. —Marian Uhlman, Executive Director