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  • Mentoring Students to Achieve their Career Goals

    BCBSIL Connect Team
    BCBSIL Connect Team December 11, 2019
    Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois has partnered with Instituto Del Progresso Latino to help launch the first ever Instituto Scholars Fund. The fund supports low-income students who are enrolled or graduated from Instituto looking to ...
    • 3765 Views
  • Healthy Fruits and Veggies are Fueling Better Futures for Kids in Rockford

    BCBSIL Connect Team
    BCBSIL Connect Team December 11, 2019
    It’s Harvest time. Leaves and temperatures are falling while local farms are prepping for next spring. One farm program in Rockford particularly catches our attention. It’s growing more than organic fruits and veggies — it’s a...
    • 3851 Views
  • Sharing with Chicago Public Schools Students: Math Skills = Jobs + Success

    BCBSIL Connect Team
    BCBSIL Connect Team December 10, 2019
    Many students are notorious for thinking they won’t need math once they finish school, but inspired to be Blue Role Models, a group of HCSC and BCBSIL employees set out to prove them wrong. On Oct. 1, nearly 100 Chicago Public Schools jun...
    • 5271 Views
  • Mujeres Latinas en Accion Offers Health Education, Outreach for Underserved Chicago Latino Community

    BCBSIL Connect Team
    BCBSIL Connect Team December 10, 2019
    Mujeres Latinas en Accion started in the early 1970s by a group of women in Chicago who realized the challenges facing Latina women as the city’s Latino, and largely immigrant, population continued to grow. Mujeres Latinas en Acci&oa...
    • 3528 Views
  • The ‘Ghostly’ (Hi)Story of Trick-or-Treating

    BCBSIL Connect Team
    BCBSIL Connect Team December 10, 2019
    Do you have your bowl of Halloween candy ready for trick-or-treaters this year? Trick-or-treating is such a beloved Halloween tradition you would think it's been around forever. But you might be surprised to learn it’s actually a fairly new Ame....
    • 3329 Views
  • Our Community Partner is Making Eating a Healthy Diet Fun For Kids

    BCBSIL Connect Team
    BCBSIL Connect Team December 10, 2019
    A Guest Blog Presented by: The Northern Illinois Food Bank Can you believe it? One in five children in Northern Illinois is hungry. Northern Illinois Food Bank believes no one should go hungry and operates a Child Nutrition Program t...
    • 3546 Views
  • Looking to be 'Normal' While Battling Cancer at Work

    Connect: Stories
    Connect: Stories December 10, 2019
    Presented by: Mary Tinnes Cancer was prevalent in my family. My mom lost her battle with breast cancer in 1994, when I was in my early thirties. I had the honor of being one of her care givers, and unfortunately became very familiar with ...
    • 4010 Views
  • Helping to Keep Special Olympics Athletes Healthy

    BCBSIL Connect Team
    BCBSIL Connect Team December 9, 2019
    For 46 years the goal of Special Olympics Illinois has been to transform the lives of current and aspiring athletes with intellectual disabilities through the gift of sport. In 2014, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois proudly helped support....
    • 4157 Views
  • Driving Health Change: Meet our Care Van Drivers

    BCBSIL Connect Team
    BCBSIL Connect Team December 6, 2019
    Early on a frosty, gray winter morning, Gerald Zawaski pulls up to the curb on a desolate strip of South Canal Street in Chicago. He steps out of a white and blue van and knows today will be a good day. Why? He’s going to be helping others. Ger...
    • 4019 Views
  • Teaming up with the Chicago Department of Public Health to Provide Free Flu Shots

    BCBSIL Connect Team
    BCBSIL Connect Team December 5, 2019
    Anyone out there have that snuffling, sneezing, achy feeling? You aren’t alone, it’s flu season . Now that “flu time” is here, it’s time to get serious about staying healthy, and one of the easiest ways to do that i...
    • 5549 Views
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