The YMCA ModelSponsored Content by the YMCA
In Sierra Leone, the YMCA helps to prevent the spread of Ebola. The Y in Nicaragua provides poor, rural families with land to grow food for their families.
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Thailand residents access the YMCA for cleft palate repair and rehabilitative services for children whose families cannot afford quality health care.
To an outsider, each operates like a separate nonprofit, but they are part of the global movement of YMCAs—one of the largest volunteer organizations in the world, serving more than 58 million people in 119 countries.
The mission remains the same in every country across the globe and in every community across the United States: to address critical social issues, helping people overcome barriers and access opportunities to reach their full potential.
In the United States, YMCAs are similarly diverse. It’s why some YMCAs in the U.S. have food banks and youth in government programs and others provide low-income housing, adult literacy and job training.
Here in Lane County, the Eugene Family YMCA tackles equally varied needs that are prevalent and critical to solving within our own community.
It provides safe, affordable and enriching after-school care to 20 elementary schools. During no-school days, spring break and the summer, the Y offers hundreds of kids a place to move their bodies, grow their minds and build appropriate social-emotional skills.
People looking to reclaim their health or address preventable diseases look to the Eugene Family YMCA. It’s where they will find cancer survivor programs, diabetes prevention classes and programs to specifically support seniors suffering from arthritis and fibromyalgia.
The benefits of being a part of such a well-established reputable organization are access to these proven health and wellness programs, youth development services and administrative tools and know-how.
At the same time, U Can Gym, the Y’s adaptive wellness program for people with mobility restrictions, is the only one of its kind among YMCAs. It’s the brainchild of Loren Cushing, then physical therapist and wheelchair basketball player, who recognized the need for a space and a wellness coach for those in wheelchairs, using walkers or canes or needing adaptive equipment in the fitness center.
Therein lies the beauty of the Y model.
We are strong because our local volunteer-led Board of Directors dictates our policy and programs that advance our cause locally to strengthen our community.
We are robust because we respond to our local communities’ needs with nationally proven programs and services from a global Y network.
We are adaptable because we have the autonomy to develop programs internally and partner with other local groups when it is necessary to help more individuals in our community.
And we are powerful because we are 58 million members strong—from Brisbane, Australia to Moscow, Russia and Eugene, Oregon to New York City—and we are growing.
To learn more about the Eugene Family YMCA and their mission, visit newymca.org
To an outsider, each operates like a separate nonprofit, but they are part of the global movement of YMCAs—one of the largest volunteer organizations in the world, serving more than 58 million people in 119 countries.
The mission remains the same in every country across the globe and in every community across the United States: to address critical social issues, helping people overcome barriers and access opportunities to reach their full potential.
In the United States, YMCAs are similarly diverse. It’s why some YMCAs in the U.S. have food banks and youth in government programs and others provide low-income housing, adult literacy and job training.
Here in Lane County, the Eugene Family YMCA tackles equally varied needs that are prevalent and critical to solving within our own community.
It provides safe, affordable and enriching after-school care to 20 elementary schools. During no-school days, spring break and the summer, the Y offers hundreds of kids a place to move their bodies, grow their minds and build appropriate social-emotional skills.
People looking to reclaim their health or address preventable diseases look to the Eugene Family YMCA. It’s where they will find cancer survivor programs, diabetes prevention classes and programs to specifically support seniors suffering from arthritis and fibromyalgia.
The benefits of being a part of such a well-established reputable organization are access to these proven health and wellness programs, youth development services and administrative tools and know-how.
At the same time, U Can Gym, the Y’s adaptive wellness program for people with mobility restrictions, is the only one of its kind among YMCAs. It’s the brainchild of Loren Cushing, then physical therapist and wheelchair basketball player, who recognized the need for a space and a wellness coach for those in wheelchairs, using walkers or canes or needing adaptive equipment in the fitness center.
Therein lies the beauty of the Y model.
We are strong because our local volunteer-led Board of Directors dictates our policy and programs that advance our cause locally to strengthen our community.
We are robust because we respond to our local communities’ needs with nationally proven programs and services from a global Y network.
We are adaptable because we have the autonomy to develop programs internally and partner with other local groups when it is necessary to help more individuals in our community.
And we are powerful because we are 58 million members strong—from Brisbane, Australia to Moscow, Russia and Eugene, Oregon to New York City—and we are growing.
To learn more about the Eugene Family YMCA and their mission, visit newymca.org
