YMCA programs guide youth, enrich families, enhance health, and promote intercultural understanding.
Open to All People of all faiths, races, abilities, and incomes are involved with the YMCA, with 41 percent under the age of 18. The development of integrated, community-based strategies for serving children and families is key to the YMCA's success. In the last year alone, the YMCA collaborated with more than 70 different agencies to provide life-changing youth, family, and adult programs to its local communities. Driving these collaborative efforts are the local volunteer board members who govern each YMCA branch and make program, policy, and financial decisions based on the social needs of their immediate communities. It operates nine community YMCAs, a resident camp, and a retreat facility, that serve as tools to carry out the YMCA's mission.