Media Partners

Highmark Healthy High 5 has four TV media partners and a number of radio partners that help inform parents about Highmark Healthy High 5 and ways to prevent bullying. These media partners offer news, feature stories, video vignettes and other content related to our bullying prevention efforts.

Below you can learn more about what our media partners offer.

• WTAE TV 4 Pittsburgh
• WICU TV 12 Erie
• WTAJ TV Johnstown/Altoona
• WHTM TV ABC 27 Harrisburg
• The Jennifer Show

WTAE TV 4 Pittsburgh

Bullying Prevention Town Meetings to become TV Special
Highmark Healthy High 5 and WTAE have held Town Meetings on bullying in three school districts in the Pittsburgh area. Parents, teachers, and adults who were bullied as children attended to ask the expert panelists questions and to learn how to support their children. On December 13, WTAE will broadcast the one-hour special, Take the Time. Talk to Your Kids. Tackle Bullying. at 7:00 pm hosted by Sally Wiggin and Sheldon Ingram. Town Meetings in Mt. Lebanon, Mars, and the Pittsburgh Public Schools will make up the special which will focus on how to talk with your kids if they’ve been bullied, if they are bullies, and how the bystander can help the bullying victim. The program will be repeated on Sunday, December 14 at 1:00 pm on WTAE.

WICU TV 12 Erie
WICU TV 12 has several programs available to help parents tackle bullying, including:

• Signs of Bullying
• What parents can do
• How to start the conversation (Part I)
• Starting the conversation (Part II)

See the WICU TV 12 bullying prevention page.

WTAJ TV Johnstown/Altoona
Carolyn Donaldson hosts Take the Time. Talk to Your Kids. Tackle Bullying Thursday, Oct. 9 at 7:00 p.m. followed by a live online chat with Highmark Healthy High 5 bullying prevention experts from the Windber Research Institute from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

WTAJ News and Highmark Healthy High 5 Partnership
SPECIAL SEGMENT: Bullying: Our Kids, Our Problem

WTAJ Healthcasts

• HEALTHCAST: Cyberbullying
• HEALTHCAST: Helping Children Deal with Grief
• HEALTHCAST: Changes in the School Cafeteria
• HEALTHCAST: Kids' Nutrition
• HEALTHCAST: Kids' Physical Activity

WHTM TV ABC 27 Harrisburg
Watch Take the Time. Talk to Your Kids. Tackle Bullying on Saturday, Oct. 4 at 7:30 p.m. hosted by Flora Posteraro. Lynn Cromley and Mary Dolan of the Center for Safe Schools answer questions on what parents should do about bullying in our schools.

WHTM ABC27 has several videos produced in partnership with Highmark Healthy High 5. These include the following.

Take the Time, Talk to Your Kids. Tackle Bullying— A half-hour show that originally aired on Oct. 5, 2008. See it now.

A local girl's story

• Bullying: Part 1 of a local girl's story (Sept. 20, 2008)
• Bullying: Part 2 of a local girl's story (Oct. 6, 2008)
• Bullying: Part 3 of a local girl's story (Oct. 13, 2008)

Highmark Healthy High 5 Vignettes — Useful tips presented in one-minute videos:

• Tips for Childhood Self Esteem
• Tips to Prevent Bullying - Part 1
• Tips to Prevent Bullying - Part 2
• Tips for Childhood Nutrition and Physical Activity
• Tips for Handling Childhood Grieving

Bullying: Kids at Risk — A 24-minute ABC 27 special program that examines the issues related to bullying, particularly in schools. See it now.

The Jennifer Show
Jennifer is proud to partner with Highmark Healthy High 5 to bring parents important tips they can use to keep their families happy and healthy. Bullying keeps kids out of school and has long-lasting, deep-rooted emotional and psychological effects.

• The scope of bullying
• What schools are doing to help
• Important tips for parents

Watch Jen's interview with Dr. Matt Masiello, Director of Community Health, Conemaugh Health System and creator of the Highmark Healthy High 5 HALT Bullying Prevention program. See it now.

Watch Jen's interview with a bullying victim.

Bullyin prevention 10-minute Tip.
These tips can be printed from jennifertvshow.com.