How do you like to relax? With a chair massage? Dancing like crazy? Or turning inward to quietly meditate? At this year’s National Relaxation Day (Aug. 15), hundreds of people had lots of options to choose from.

Each week, social workers and behaviorial health specialists from Blue Shield Promise and Wellnest joined accomplished artist Moses Ball who encouraged youth aged 11 to 17 to lend their creativity as they participated in the program. Art was used as a tool to help the program participants share their feelings and talk about difficult issues in a safe, nurturing space. As part of the program, a “Promise” theme mural was painted on the 20-foot by 60-foot wall outside the playground of the Boys and Girls Challengers Clubhouse.

After Blue Shield of California blew past its volunteerism goals last year, the nonprofit is recognized for its outstanding service to the Bay Area.

More than 100 Blue Shield of California and KaBOOM! volunteers participated in different projects such as painting picnic tables and hop scotch patterns on the asphalt, building benches for kids to sit on and monkey bars to climb on.

Hope Scott, Blue Shield of California’s vice president, chief risk & compliance officer, was named Savoy Magazine’s 2019 Most Influential Women in Corporate America list.

Over 500 campers from Town Camp’s 18 locations across Oakland came together to compete at Arroyo Viejo Park on July 12. Participants each represented their home recreation center to face off in feats ranging from traditional camp contests like three-legged races, to more wacky activities like water hose limbo. Blue Shield volunteers pitched in across all parts of the event, setting up and decorating, serving lunch, painting faces and scooping ice cream, all the way to helping run the actual games

Blue Shield of California and Sutter Health have signed a new multi-year agreement giving the nonprofit health plan members uninterrupted access to Sutter’s integrated network in Northern California.