At YMCA child care sites, programs and camps, positive values are the everyday lessons taught through role models, group activities and creative thought. It`s an effective example of intellectual challenge and teamwork: skills that will last a lifetime.

Just as today`s families vary in size and form, the YMCA offers a wide variety of activities tailor-made for togetherness and enjoyable experiences. There are Family Nights, unique parent-child programs, and more - all to help forge strong bonds; create easy, open communication; and replenish the love between family members that sometimes gets lost in the pace of everyday life.

150 years ago, the founders of the YMCA offered a radical view: a healthy body and a healthy mind combined dramatically to make a healthy spirit and a happier, more productive individual and community member. At the YMCA, physical fitness is important, but so are mental attitudes and spiritual growth. It`s more than building bodies; it`s building a sense of belonging and community that cannot be matched anywhere else. We invite you to join the YMCA and help us make our community a better place in which to live.

To put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. The Kalamazoo County Family YMCA is unique in that it embraces women, men, girls and boys of all ages, incomes, abilities, races and religions. The YMCA is for everyone. It works to break barriers of isolation and to create the connections between people that add meaning to life.