The ymca of middletown is a charitable, community service organization that includes men, women and children of all ages, abilities, incomes, races and religions. We are dedicated to building strong kids, strong families, and strong communities that promote healthy lifestyles, strong values, leadership development, community interaction, and international understanding. All persons are welcome at our ymca, regardless of their ability to pay. Our ymca is founded and led by volunteers from our community; volunteers also serve as mentors, coaches, program leaders, instructors and more.

Human Services , Physical Fitness & Community Recreational Facilities , Sports , Young Mens or Womens Associations

Youth development:the ymca is committed to nurturing the potential of every child and teen by cultivating the values, skills and relationships that lead to positive behaviors, leadership skills, better health and nutrition, life-long fitness and educational achievement. club kid: we have grown to now offer 23 before and after school programs, 22 of which are school based and we provide quality, affordable care to an average of 1375 children each day, serving ages 5-12 throughout all of orange county. The ymca serves every school district in orange county with the exception of warwick, newburgh, and tuxedo. All of the sites are school based with the exception of our middletown programs at the 'center' on liberty street in middletown. All sites strive to meet hepa standards for nutritious snacks and are licensed by the state of new york. Our program in middletown participates in the cacfp snack reimbursement program, and as a result of this program, can offer more nutritious snacks, which include fresh vegetables, fruit, etc. All programs offer tutorial assistance, healthy snacks, physical activity, outdoor play time, tennis at some of our sites in partnership with the usta, (some offer swimming), arts and social competency skills, all led by trained, caring, positive adult role models. We also provide programs to over 235 additional children during the school vacation periods or the singular days off for teacher's trainings at our middletown or monroe locations. During 2017 the demand for financial assistance in many of our sites grew considerably. In our chester site alone 25% of the program was subsidized. Overall, approximately 13% of the participants receive financial subsidization through proceeds/donations from our strong kids campaign. We provided a total of $92,451 of scholarship aid to club kid participants and offered families that participated in club kid a 50% financial assistance discount for family memberships. As the strengths and success of these programs are almost solely built on the quality of staff we continued to develop our training programs by offering two full days of training, one in the fall and one in the spring, where a complex series of course offerings are provided by a number of qualified trainers who are experts in the field, as well as seasoned childcare professionals. This all with the common goal of further preparing the staff to deal with the unique and often special challenges of many of our participants. We supplement those main trainings with monthly trainings with our site directors. Additionally, we serve 28 young people in a middle school afterschool program housed in the monroe branch, and an additional 24 young people from the middletown middle schools, who are served at the center facility on liberty street. Nursery school and universal pre-kindergarten: we provide (half day) and (full day) enrichment programs (morning and afternoon) for (91) three and four year olds, as well as a kindergarten readiness program for an additional 68 children. Both of these programs expanded exponentially during 2017. Our contract for universal pre-kindergarten with the middletown school district was expanded to serve even more children in both a morning and afternoon program. Our preschool program was expanded by two new classroom spaces, which went into operation in september. While cognitive development and school readiness are a primary focus of these programs, we supplement the traditional school readiness program with an incredible music program, some stem curricula, a pe program that also includes swimming classes at our highland avenue facility two blocks away from the center, and a number of special/often seasonal events that involve the families. The children and families served by the center are representative of every ethnic group and family makeup that exists in a four mile radius to the center. The center prides itself on this diversity. We provided $26,070 in scholarship assis