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Community service At T he YMCA

Community service At T he YMCA. Kim Heffernan.

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Community service At T he YMCA

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  1. Community service At The YMCA Kim Heffernan

  2. The YMCA is a nonprofit organization that is centered around it’s strength in community. The Y brings people together through their mission to put Christian principles into practice. The YMCA is also a driven organization that focuses on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility.

  3. Child watch Program The Reston, VA YMCA where I volunteered, offers a day care program called Child Watch. This program consists of parents dropping their kids off in the gym with us volunteers and employees while they worked out. To keep the kids occupied, we had a coloring table, a moon bounce, basketball hoops and balls for them to play with and for us to play with them. I volunteered with this program a couple times a week for about a year. Over this period of time I got to know a lot of the kids who repeatedly came back. I got to build relationships with some of them and help them learn, whether it was through two completely different things such as sports or drawing.

  4. Parents Night Out Program Another program that the YMCA offered that I volunteered for was called Parents Night Out. Once a month on Friday nights I would volunteer from 7-11 and parents would drop their kids off with us while they had a night out alone. We would feed the kids pizza, go swimming in the indoor pool, go on the moon bounce, color and also play games. This was also a fun opportunity because I got to do different things with the kids but still got to see some of the same ones. I didn’t get to do this as much as I did Child Watch but I still enjoyed being able to swim with them and build trust in a different way.

  5. All the information in this PowerPoint came from different pages on www.ymca.net • http://www.ymca.net/about-us/ • http://www.ymca.net/our-focus/ • http://www.ymca.net/child-care/ the Y. (n.d.). the Y. Retrieved October 7, 2012, from http://www.ymca.net/

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