Category: Youth Development
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Get ready: Healthy Kids Day is taking over the Y next weekend. The Y holds Healthy Kids Day every year to teach families healthy habits in a fun way. There will be swim lessons, bounce houses and healthy cooking demos, depending on the branch. But all this fun has a purpose …to address kid’s risk…
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A donation bucket for the Strong kids Campaign at the South Oakland Y encouraged 11-year-old Josie Marzorati to do something to raise money for the campaign, After some brainstorming, she came up with a lemonade stand, and Y staff jumped in to help make her vision a reality. She’s since raised more than $600 for…
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Middle school can be a difficult time , as all of us who survived it know all too well. The Girls on Track program helps girls gain the tools he need to not only survive this tumultuous time, but thrive. While it’s centered around training for a 5K race, it’s about so much more than…
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Finding time to do all the things you’d like to do with your kids before they grow up can be difficult, with busy work, school and activity schedules. The Y’s Adventure Guide program lets parent-child pairs pause to spend memorable times together, while trying activities they might not otherwise do.
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A group of creative professionals who got their start here in Detroit and now are successful professionals in LA wanted to contribute to the city’s rebirth, so they raised money from their community of fellow Detroit expats to fund the Detroit Creativity Project. Their first project was 10-week improv classes taught at three Detroit schools,…
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Brittany Morris was eager to go to college, but wasn’t entirely sure how she was going to make it happen. Her mentors at Metro Youth YMCA were just as determined as she was to see her succeed and stopped at nothing to help her — including finding her transportation to an out-of-state interview and intervening…
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Macomb Township YMCA lifeguard Chelsea Cheek donates money from her paycheck to the Strong Kids Campaign. And she goes above and beyond, raising funds through various community events — all this on top of another part-time job and a full class load at the University of Detroit Mercy.