Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Montana

Several employees helped us kick off National Volunteer Month recently by compiling Calming Kits for AWARE Inc. We put together more than 200 adult kits and more than 400 kids kits to distribute to people with mental health and developmental disabilities and early childhood development. Blue Bear even joined in the fun!

Thank you doctors - today and every day! We are grateful for the doctors in our networks who manage the health of our members - as well as the physicians on our teams that help us empower whole person health. #NationalDoctorsDay #DoctorsDay

Congrats to Helena Bighorns Hockey Club, which is opening play today at the North American 3 Hockey League Fraser Cup Championship, to defend their 2024 championship. We proudly sponsor the Bighorns and will be cheering from afar as they hit the ice in St. Louis. For more information, visit http://spr.ly/6043FDpF1 or http://spr.ly/6045FDpFH. Go Bighorns!

We awarded Missoula’s EmpowerMT Place, an interactive children’s learning program and library at Missoula Food Bank and Community Center, a Blue Impact grant to help offer free summer and after school programming to children to improve math, literacy, and social and emotional learning skills. Free to all Missoula families, EmPower Place is a partnership between the University of Montana's spectrUM Discovery Area museum, the food bank and Missoula Public Library. Find out more about the work EmPower Place does: http://spr.ly/60400Csze

An estimated 1 in 9 Montanans, including 1 in 6 children, experience food insecurity. Through our Blue Impact grant program, we have partnered with organizations like Farm Connect Montana to help people buy more healthy, fresh foods and promote healthier living across the state. Read more on how we are connecting food insecure Montanans to locally grown fruits and vegetables: http://spr.ly/60460e6yj #NationalNutritionMonth

Several of our employees recently volunteered at the Helena Habitat ReStore, a non-profit home improvement and furnishings store which funds Helena Area Habitat for Humanity's housing programs while keeping usable items out of the landfill. We also had an opportunity to learn more about the great work Habitat for Humanity does for the greater Helena community, including their recent 250-acre land purchase for a proposed 1,500-home community focused on affordability and sustainability called Rose Hill.

Our work with Mountain Shadow Association is helping to repair and restore relationships between children living on the Crow Reservation and their parents. Mountain Shadow Association is building a family healing center that will use indigenous values and systems to help families out of poverty, protect children from abuse and ensure access to health care and education. Learn more about how our Blue Impact program supports organizations like Mountain Shadow Association here: http://spr.ly/60470rInb

In recognition of March being National Nutrition Month we are shining a light on the amazing work our friends at Helena Food Share are doing in our community. We recently toured the new facility, and we are so grateful for their commitment to address food insecurity and nutrition. In 2024 alone, Helena Food Share served nearly 10,000 individuals, distributed more than 1.8 million pounds of food through all services, and provided nearly 46,000 Kid Packs through their partnership with 25 areas schools. To learn more or to support Helena Food Share, visit http://spr.ly/60420rgr0.

64 basketball teams from across the state will convene in four cities this Thursday-Saturday for the state girls and boys basketball tournaments, which will round out the winter activities schedule. As a longtime and proud sponsor of Montana High School Assn and the work the organization does to support Montana youth, we extend our congratulations to the teams that qualified and wish the best to all the athletes, coaches, officials, administrators and fans who make these tournaments special. Visit http://spr.ly/60440RiOg for tournament information. Class AA: Montana State University, Bozeman Class A: MetraPark, Billings Class B: University of Montana, Missoula Class C: Civic Center, Butte

We are proud to sponsor the 2025 Legislative Luncheon at the Montana State Capitol to thank our legislators and elected officials for the important work they are doing this legislative session. Thank you to all who joined the event, including members of our leadership team, our Care Van team, and our community partners at Lewis and Clark Public Health.