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Through education, communications, grants and programming, Highmark Healthy High 5 will help create a generation of children and adolescents who lead longer, healthier lives.

This newsroom section highlights some of the our press releases from 2006, 2007 and 2008.

Highmark Healthy High 5 School Challenge Program awards $526,000 in grants to 65 Pennsylvania schools
PITTSBURGH (July 22, 2008)
The Highmark Foundation, through the Highmark Healthy High 5 School Challenge, recently awarded nearly $526,000 in grants to 65 elementary, middle and high schools across Pennsylvania during the second quarter of 2008. The grants will support programs that address bullying prevention and self-esteem, improve nutrition education, enhance nutrition choices and provide opportunities for physical activity.

Highmark Healthy High 5 School Challenge program awards $605,000 in grants to 75 Pennsylvania schools
PITTSBURGH (April 10, 2008)
The Highmark Foundation awarded $605,000 in grants to 75 schools, grades K-12 across Pennsylvania. The grants will support programs that address bullying prevention and self-esteem, improve nutrition education, enhance nutrition choices and provide opportunities for physical activity. Due to the overwhelming response received from schools, The Highmark Foundation has also approved an additional $1.5 million to be awarded through the Highmark Healthy High 5 School Challenge increasing the resources to award a total of $2.5 million this year.

Highmark Healthy High 5 announces bullying poster contest
PITTSBURGH (Jan. 18, 2008)
The Highmark Foundation announced that students will have the opportunity to participate, through their schools, in a bullying poster contest to raise awareness about the persistent problems of bullying.

The Highmark Foundation announces $1 million school challenge program
PITTSBURGH (Nov. 16, 2007)
The Highmark Foundation announced today that $1 million in grants will be awarded on a rolling basis in 2008 through the Highmark Healthy High 5 School Challenge grant program to public, private, parochial and charter schools in the Foundation’s 49-county service area.

The Highmark Foundation awards $580,000 in Highmark Healthy High 5 grants to four nonprofit organizations
PITTSBURGH (Oct. 10, 2007)
The Highmark Foundation recently awarded more than $580,000 in grants to four nonprofit organizations through its Highmark Healthy High 5 initiative. The grants will be used for nutrition and physical activity programs in central and western Pennsylvania, and for a grieving program in Centre, Huntingdon and Mifflin counties.

Bullying Prevention Institute designed to empower change in schools
CAMP HILL (Oct. 1, 2007)
On Oct. 4 and 5, Highmark Healthy High 5, an initiative of the Highmark Foundation, will present the Bullying Prevention Institute at the Hershey Lodge in Hershey, Pa. This event is the only one of its kind in Pennsylvania.

Highmark Healthy High 5 awards $2.3 million grant to the Center for Safe Schools
PITTSBURGH (Aug 28, 2007)
The Highmark Foundation, through its Highmark Healthy High 5 initiative, today announced a $2.3 million grant and a new partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Education and the Center for Safe Schools in an effort to address the issue of bullying.

Highmark Healthy High 5 SPARK Active Recreation Program expands in Southwestern Pennsylvania
PITTSBURGH (Aug 20, 2007)
The Highmark Foundation's Highmark Healthy High 5 SPARK Active Recreation program is currently recruiting new program sites throughout the Southwestern Pennsylvania region. SPARK (Sports Play and Active Recreation for Kids) is a nationally recognized physical activity program designed to provide children with an inclusive, non-competitive recreation experience regardless of their ability, size or gender.

Highmark Healthy High 5 SPARK Active Recreation Program expands in Central Pennsylvania
CAMP HILL (Aug 20, 2007)
The Highmark Foundation's Highmark Healthy High 5 SPARK Active Recreation program is currently recruiting new program sites throughout the Central Pennsylvania region. SPARK (Sports Play and Active Recreation for Kids) is a nationally recognized physical activity program designed to provide children with an inclusive, non-competitive recreation experience regardless of their ability, size or gender.

The Highmark Foundation announces 2007 Highmark Healthy High 5 School Challenge grant winners
PITTSBURGH (May 31, 2007)
To provide schools more nutrition and physical activity offerings to help create lifelong healthy habits in children, the Highmark Foundation, through its Highmark Healthy High 5 School Challenge program has awarded more than $800,000 in grants to 172 schools in Pennsylvania.

Highmark Healthy High 5 to Promote Healthy Lifestyles During Tour of Pennsylvania
HARRISBURG (May 16, 2007)
Highmark Healthy High 5, an initiative of the Highmark Foundation, announced it is the presenting sponsor of the American Eagle Tour of Pennsylvania, a nearly 500-mile professional cycling race from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh in June 2008.

Highmark Healthy High 5 SPARK Active Recreation Program Encourages Children to Make Regular Physical Activity Part of Their Everyday Lives
ERIE (May 15, 2007)
Highmark Healthy High 5 SPARK Active Recreation is a nationally-recognized program that provides children and adolescents ages 5-14 with a quality physical activity experience in an after-school or community program setting. The program has shown through scientific trials an increase in fitness levels in children as well as promoting life-long appreciation for movement that ultimately creates the basis for a healthier lifestyle and obesity prevention. Children – no matter what their athletic ability or skill level – can participate in SPARK’s non-competitive activities and games.

Five Critical Children's Health Issues Featured In New Public Broadcasting Documentary
PITTSBURGH (May 7, 2007)
Researchers say we are at risk of raising the first generation of American children who will live sicker and die younger than the generations before them. A new one-hour program called "PA Healthy Kids: Back to Basics," produced by Emmy-Award-winning WQED-TV, focuses on five critical children’s health issues – nutrition, physical activity, self-esteem, grieving and bullying—and premieres on WQED in Pittsburgh on Sunday, May 17 at 8 p.m. The program is sponsored by the Highmark Foundation.

Highmark Healthy High 5 SPARK Active Recreation Program Encourages Children To Make Regular Physical Activity Part of Their Everyday Lives part of their everyday lives
JOHNSTOWN (May 3, 2007)
Less than 25 percent of school-age children get even 20 minutes of rigorous daily physical activity, well below the minimum of 60 minutes prescribed by fitness researchers. Providing opportunities for fun, engaging activities for children is one of the ways we can help protect them from the health risks associated with physical inactivity and childhood obesity. Highmark Healthy High 5 SPARK Active Recreation is a nationally-recognized program that provides children and adolescents ages 5-14 with a quality physical activity experience in an after-school or community program setting.

Highmark Healthy High 5 SPARK Active Recreation Program Encourages Children To Make Regular Physical Activity Part Of Their Everyday Lives
PITTSBURGH (April 30, 2007)
Highmark Healthy High 5 SPARK Active Recreation is a nationally-recognized program that provides children and adolescents ages 5-14 with a quality physical activity experience in an after-school or community program setting. The program has shown through scientific trials an increase in fitness levels in children as well as promoting life-long appreciation for movement that ultimately creates the basis for a healthier lifestyle and obesity prevention. Children – no matter what their athletic ability or skill level – can participate in SPARK's non-competitive activities and games.

Highmark Foundation provides subsidy for online student wellness program
PITTSBURGH (Feb. 14, 2007)
The Highmark Foundation, through its Highmark Healthy High 5 initiative, has created a subsidy program so that schools in 49 counties of Pennsylvania can participate in the Highmark Healthy High 5 Health eTools for Schools program at no cost until Sept. 1, 2009.

Highmark Inc. launches unprecedented five-year, $100 million initiative to improve children's health and well-being
PITTSBURGH (Sept. 14, 2006)
Highmark Inc. launched Highmark Healthy High 5, a five-year, $100 million community initiative supported by its contribution to the Highmark Foundation in an effort to reverse the current trends in children's health and to promote lifelong healthy habits in children throughout its 49-county service area. Highmark Healthy High 5 will address five critical children's health issues.

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