Joy is tempered by the knowledge that we still have work to do to achieve equity for all of us. We added more people to our ranks for the Seattle Pride Parade and marched alongside Cocoon House, When Premera Blue Cross first sponsored Seattle Pride in 2017, Premera employees and families proudly marched through downtown Seattle alongside many of our biggest customers in support of the LGBTQ community. Which provides social services, including outreach, housing, and prevention to more than 2,500 young people and their families each year. We worked with Cocoon House to raise awareness of the disproportionate number of homeless youth who identify as LGBTQ and how their organization Premera helped provide funding for a new Cocoon House youth center and additional funding for its housing program for youth and young adults.

Supports them, with help from corporate donors like Premera. Premera also began sponsoring Spokane Pride Parade in 2018, with participation from our Spokane-area employees. In 2019, we formed a Pride Workgroup to engage our employees in planning and support for Pride at Premera. Gay flag background hope how to#Įarly in the group's discussions, we talked about how to do more to support our LGBTQ employees, customers, and people in our community.ĬOVID-19 derailed many of our plans. But we're excited to participate in virtual celebrations, as part of our ongoing sponsorship of Seattle Pride.

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