The northern middlesex ymca offers a path toward a fuller, more productive life. The ymca will provide to a broad spectrum of our community, high quality programs, services and facilities that improve individual and family life, encourage healthier lifestyles and assist youth in developing into responsible adulthood.

Human Services , Young Mens or Womens Associations

Youth development/family services - the ymca's youth/family services include preschool, before/after school, day camping, and teen programs. The ymca's kid's korner is the leading provider of before and after school childcare in middletown with licensed sites in all of middletown's public elementary schools. The ymca also operates sites in cromwell, portland and east haddam. Open door assistance is available to families earning under $70,000 annually. State of connecticut care4kids, private donations, united way, and grants from the state department of education, and the middletown youth service department further expand service to low income families. During the summer months, families have a choice between ymca camp ingersoll held on ymca property in portland, or the summer enrichment program based in our facilities in middletown. Both of these programs are state licensed day camps and provide sliding scale assistance to low income families. Camp ingersoll provided over 1412 children with a traditional day camp experience that included swimming, boating, environmental education, art, ropes, archery and more. Camp ingersoll also offers specialty camps in sports, adventure, science, the arts and leadership development. The my time scholarship program provides scholarships to children with an immediate family member who had cancer. Preschool childcare is provided year round in our state licensed and naeyc accredited ingersoll childcare center. The center provides a school readiness program to 53 primarily low income three and four year old children each school year. The y also operates a school readiness classroom at macdonough school serving an additional 16 and additional 16 at bielefield school which was closed november 2017. Teen programs include basketball leagues, friday night recreation for middle school and saturday high school programs that promote positive youth development in safe settings supervised by role models. Approximately 200 youth participated in y teen recreation programs in 2017. health/wellness: the ymca's membership services are offered to boys, girls, men and women in 2017, approximately 10,800 individual were members of the ymca of northern middlesex county, 33% of the members were under the age of 18, through our open doors financial assistance program, over 650 individuals and families received assistance through reduced fees to ensure access to our programs regardless of ability to pay. These awards are made possible by the middlesex united way and 712 individual and business donors who made contributions to our community support campaign. The component programs/services for all members include health and wellness activities, chronic care interventions, instructional, therapeutic and competitive swimming, youth sports, dance, judo, racquetball, adult and youth basketball and dormitory residence for men. Men's residence - the ymca provides residence to 62 low income men in dormitory style housing. Men are provided with linkages to local human service agencies and pay for membership privileges. youth mentoring - the ymca's therapeutic youth mentoring programs provide weekly mentoring sessions for children ages 4-18 years. Considered at-risk referrals are made by the state department of children and families, local collaborative systems of care and parole services. The ymca matches mentor and client based culture, interests and needs. A service plan is developed including schedules, activities and behavior goals. Case managers oversee progress and compile monthly progress reports for sponsoring agencies. The mentoring program closed august 1, 2017 due to state of connecticut budget cuts.