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Mentoring Students to Achieve their Career Goals
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 ...
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Healthy Fruits and Veggies are Fueling Better Futures for Kids in Rockford
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...
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Sharing with Chicago Public Schools Students: Math Skills = Jobs + Success
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...
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Mujeres Latinas en Accion Offers Health Education, Outreach for Underserved Chicago Latino Community
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...
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The ‘Ghostly’ (Hi)Story of Trick-or-Treating
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....
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Our Community Partner is Making Eating a Healthy Diet Fun For Kids
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...
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Looking to be 'Normal' While Battling Cancer at Work
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 ...
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Helping to Keep Special Olympics Athletes Healthy
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....
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Driving Health Change: Meet our Care Van Drivers
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...
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Teaming up with the Chicago Department of Public Health to Provide Free Flu Shots
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...
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