Programs

The YMCA offers something for everyone, regardless of age, special interest or need.  The YMCA is a safe, dependable place for parents to leave their children while they are at work.  It is a place to have a good workout or hold a meeting.  It is a place that helps teenagers stay straight instead of taking wrong turns, and it is a place that builds good character and values.

The YMCA has something for everyone!

Whether it's Youth, Teen or Adult programs, you'll find something that is right for you, your children and your family!

Click a program to get information about what your
local Y has to offer!

• Childcare
  YMCAs are dedicated to providing high-quality, affordable child care. As the nation's largest provider of child care programs, YMCAs provide family-centered, values-based programs to nurture children's healthy development. Well-trained staff provide safe, affordable, high-quality care so you can have peace of mind while you work. Like all Y programs, child care is open to all, with financial aid available. Staff members are partners with parents and other caregivers, working together to help kids grow up healthy, happy and strong.
   

• Aquatics
  YMCAs have been teaching people to swim for more than a century. In YMCA aquatics programs, children learn to be safe around water and they feel the sense of accomplishment that comes with learning something new. Youth progressive swimming is the YMCA's third most widely offered program nationwide. It uses a problem-solving, guided-discovery teaching approach in a positive, caring environment. Kids can develop lifelong skills that can help them stay healthy.

  Other YMCA aquatics programs include infant-parent classes, preschool classes, classes for people with disabilities and classes for teens and adults. These include water exercise and therapy and water sports, including synchronized swimming and master competitive swimming for people 18 and over. Competitive programs are also available for youth.

  Many YMCAs offer special classes to help children and families learn how to be safer in and around water
   

• Sports
  Kids learn so much through sports, such as skills and positive attitudes they'll carry with them throughout their lives.  Enriching their personal development is the goal of the YMCA Youth Sports Program, a unique  sports program that combines the YMCA's philosophy of fair play, teamwork and inclusiveness with program concepts and resources based on the latest youth sports research.
   

• Fitness
  YMCAs have led community-based health and fitness for more than a century. Research continues to support the approach to health that YMCAs have taken since 1891 when Luther Gulick proposed the red YMCA triangle as a symbol of a person's "essential unity -- spirit, mind and body" each being a necessary and eternal part of man.' Participation in Y health and fitness programs offer opportunities for friendship and community, a sense of well-being, self-confidence, and improved mental abilities and cognition -- not to mention the obvious benefits of healthy hearts, lungs, bones and muscles.

  Ys believe exercise and health education are important for people of all ages, incomes and abilities.
   

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