Glacial Community YMCA

Social responsibility: engaging our youth, teen and families is our full-time job. We provide a friendly environment with structure and willing mentors, who lead and teach a variety of activities, helping to form relationships, encourage communication and promote an enriched healthy life. Special programs our special programs department provides programming for individuals with intellectual, developmental, physical, and social/emotional disabilities in the areas of recreation, physical activity and sports, socialization and Community integration. Over 185 individuals with disabilities participated in programs at both the pabst and watertown branches. Service without boundaries program is a day program for adults with disabilities. The group is dedicated to doing service projects for Community organizations and for the Ymca. The service without boundaries program has built relationships with the oconomowoc food pantry, zachariah's acres and the oconomowoc public library and volunteers bi-monthly at these locations. The group has also established a relationship with our childcare center called difference makers. Our adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities spend time with the students in our childcare center. They work on projects, play games, and have an amazing opportunity to get to know one another. Activities of daily living, social skills, physical activity, and a variety of learning opportunities are also a part of service without boundaries. This program meets a great need within the Community that families had been asking for. They were looking for a place that could care for their adults with disabilities during the day that would be safe, fun, and would give them something meaningful to do. This program provides all of that and more. This program is set to open at our watertown branch beginning in fall of 2023. Social programs - social programming offers respite opportunities for families while encouraging independence, social connections, and Community integration for individuals with varying abilities. Participants partake in monthly events in the Ymca as well as summer programming opportunities. We provided monthly opportunities for socialization through dinner and a movie and fun friday. Summer programming offered a weekly hiking adventure day, and day trips twice a week to a variety of locations throughout our state. Adaptive sports programs and adaptive fitness programs provide athletes with varying abilities an opportunity to develop their fitness and sports skills while focusing on teamwork and sportsmanship. Adaptive sports teams provided at the Ymca include softball, flag football, swimming, basketball, track and field, volleyball and bocce ball. For those who aren't interested in competitive sports or who are looking for additional opportunities to work on fitness both branches of our Ymca provide a weekly fitness program designed for individuals with disabilities. Adaptive aquatics programming provides 1:1 swim lessons for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities as well as individuals with physical disabilities. These lessons focus on swimmers of all levels from those who are just being introduced to water to those who are working to learn stroke development and increase endurance to participate in a swim team. Adaptive aquatics is an extremely important program helping individuals with disabilities to increase their water safety. Active older adults active older adults are an important part of our mission here at the Glacial Community Ymca. We offer both land-based and water-based exercise programs that enhance the lives of our seniors by increasing mobility and keeping them active. Not only do we offer programs for physical conditioning, but we also include a wide variety of social opportunities to keep the senior engaged spiritually and mentally. We have offered monthly bingo, a container gardening class, holiday gatherings, and a place to play the very popular game of pickleball. New this year was the introduction of a walking class for individuals who have mobility challenges and/or use assistive devices. Additionally, the national support group for cardiac patients, mended hearts, has partnered with our y to provide information and encouragement after a cardiac incident. We also partner with the oconomowoc area senior center to offer both local travel opportunities, as well as extended tours that take them to destinations around the u.s. In addition to these programs, you will find our seniors gathering in our caf lobby, our whirlpool, the indoor track, and other areas of our facility for coffee, a snack, or a walk, connecting with others in conversation and laughter. Our active older adults are at home here at the y. We served 398 senior individuals in 2022 with 21,346 program enrollments. Spiritual development the Glacial Community Ymca seeks to provide programs that strengthen all individuals in spirit, mind, and body. In spiritual development, we look to accomplish this through a variety of opportunities. Weekly programs like bible studies for men and women, small group studies that provide opportunities for the individual to grow in his or her faith, times of prayer and enrichment, and avenues for service are all part of what we do to provide strength for the spirit. Leadership development for our full-time staff is an important part of what we do to strengthen our culture at the y. This is accomplished through quarterly trainings for staff, provision of annual training through a partnership with global leadership summit, and more. We also encourage our members, Community, and staff to serve through one or more of our mission experiences to either esperanza viva in puebla, mexico or the Ymca of valparaiso, chile. To date, we have sent one team to chile to provide needed service to the george williams school, an affiliate of the Ymca in valparaiso and look to send another team in 2024. Since 2018, five teams have been trained and have served the children of esperanza viva, and the y has commissioned a staff member to serve full time as a missionary at the orphanage. She has served there since 2020. We also seek to provide outreach to the local communities in which we serve. This is done through a variety of programs, like the thanksgiving meal project. In 2022 we distributed over 200 meals to families in need in both oconomowoc and watertown. We have also partnered with other local organizations, such as feeding america and loaves and fishes to provide service opportunities for our teen leaders, our staff, and our membership. The Glacial Community Ymca is fully committed to our mission as a christian organization by serving, caring, and loving the communities in which we are located.

Healthy living: great effort is continually made to offer a variety of programs for every age that promote a healthy spirit, body and mind. We continue to offer services and programs to engage health seekers throughout their health and wellness journey, as well as providing fitness programs for youth and teens in our communities. We offer our programs at affordable fees with financial assistance available for those who may need a scholarship.the y partners with local schools to help expand the students' knowledge of sports in an encouraging, fun and energetic atmosphere, while promoting mental, physical and social development. More than 3,500 children came to the y after school to participate in programs.we are fortunate to have many prominent healthcare organizations in our communities. The Glacial Community Ymca has established strong partnerships with the hospitals, schools and assisted living and retirement facilities in our communities. Through these collaborations we are showing the Glacial Community Ymca's commitment to changing and improving, healthy and functional living in families and individuals in our communities. The following are our current partnerships.roger's memorial hospital-behavior health hospital we provide scholarship memberships to patients of rogers during their stay at the hospital to aid in their recovery process. The y helps facilitate individual treatment for patients to become independent in a fitness center setting.adult health classesin 2022, we were able to provide over 12,000 classes including virtual, live, and aquatic fitness classes association wide. This allowed us to provide over 1,300 people per week the opportunity to improve their physical and mental health through physical activity.youth/teenthe Glacial Community Ymca works closely with local schools to help students grow in leadership development and engage the youth/teen in the Community through volunteer service opportunities. The leadership volunteer program involves students from both the oconomowoc and watertown school districts. The students (11) have volunteered over 62 hours of their time and completed 13 projects, from food drives to gardening in the Ymca Community garden. Through this program youth/teens have come to understand the importance and significance to giving back, both at the y and throughout the Community. Their volunteerism this year lead to over 800 individuals receiving thanksgiving meals for free as well as provided 3,300 items to the oconomowoc food pantry and the bread basket Community support center in watertown.youth sportsthe y partners with local schools to help expand the students' knowledge of sports in an encouraging, fun, and energetic atmosphere. This is an area where they will develop mentally, physically, and socially. After school, more than 3,000 children have been involved at the Ymca through the various programs we offer. With affordable fees and financial assistance, there are sports programming offered to youth, families, and adults. Swim teamthe piranha swim team provides a safe environment where scholar athletes can grow, develop, and be challenged. We aim to inspire personal and competitive excellence through the sport of swimming. We teach life skills as well as swimming skills by employing the Ymca core values of respect, honesty, caring and responsibility. We offer opportunities for all who wish to be a part of the team from the fitness swimmer to those who have goals of nationals and beyond.renew active, silver sneakers, silver & fitthe Glacial Community Ymca has partnered with united health care, blue cross blue shield, and other select insurance providers to provide the renew active, silver sneakers, and silver & fit programs. These are membership options that are based on reimbursement from insurance. Eligible seniors are provided a membership at no charge to themselves that opens up physical activity opportunities such as group exercise classes as well as social activities that ensure our seniors are not isolated in their homes. These programs have allowed over 3,276 seniors in our area to access the y for free, contributing to their health in spirit, mind, and body.

Youth development: our Ymca nurtures the potential of every child through both full and part-time care options designed for the families we serve. Youth build meaningful relationships, lifelong memories, find a sense of accomplishment, and gain experience to discover the best version of themselves. Families and children across our programs learn how to build and enhance lives in our communities as strong kids, healthy families and capable citizens. Our early learning programs focus on holistically nurturing the child's development by providing a safe and healthy place to learn foundational skills, develop healthy, trusting relationships and build self-reliance through our five core values: caring, faith, honesty, respect and responsibility.on-site we offer accredited and licensed child care for children ages 6 weeks-6 years of age, preschool programs, children's movement programs and drop-off care for over 2,400 children. Off-site we provide a safe and engaging environment for school age children where they can explore nature, discover new talents, try new activities, gain independence, and make lasting friendships and memories for a lifetime. Serving 2,082 children, youth between 4k and 8th grade utilize our 16 state-licensed before and after school locations, 6 4k wrap around care school locations, 3 summer day camps, 5 summer school camps and schools out days programming. Our talented and intentionally trained staff are role models and professionals who serve with a caring heart. Staff complete value-focused activities with all youth while our inclusive care settings are centered on best practices for care and education for all. The Ymca provides tuition assistance for child care services and programs. Over $25,000 was awarded to families applying for assistance with fees.