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Category: <span>Healthy Living</span>

Category: Healthy Living

Healthy Living / Social Responsibility / Youth Development

Community Financial donates $1,000 to Girls on the Run!

Girls on the Run of Greater Detroit and the YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit would like to extend a big thank you to Community Financial for their gift of $1,000! Because of Community Financial’s Summer of Sharing Campaign, more girls in the Metro Detroit area will have the opportunity to learn positive lessons about physical, emotional,…
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Meagan Scaringe

August 18, 2015
Healthy Living / News Coverage / Press

News: YMCA EnhancedFitness Classes

Featured on Fox 2 Kym Reed, Group Fitness Coordinator at the Carls Family YMCA, shows Fox 2 viewers some activities that can help alleviate the pain of arthritis, old age and other chronic pains.
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Meagan Scaringe

August 14, 2015
Healthy Living / Social Responsibility / Youth Development

Camp Baldwin-Phoenix Food Partnership

By Lauren Fuller The summer is off to a “fresh” start for 65 children in Pontiac thanks to Camp Baldwin-Phoenix. The partnership between the YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit and the Baldwin Center, an area human service agency, is in its 3rd year, allowing underserved students in Pontiac the opportunity to attend a 7 week academic…
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Meagan Scaringe

August 6, 2015
Healthy Living / Social Responsibility / Youth Development

Food Garden Teaches Kids About the Importance of Healthy Eating

By Jennifer Paffi For the second year in a row, the YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit is partnering with the Detroit Leadership Academy to provide our Summer Learning Loss Prevention Program, commonly known as Y Readers. This is also the second year that we have partnered with Wayne State’s FoodCorps to provide science and nutrition lessons…
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Meagan Scaringe

August 6, 2015
Healthy Living / News Coverage / Press / Social Responsibility / Youth Development

News: Initiative in Detroit to encourage kids to get outdoors

As part of the U.S. Department of the Interior’s leadership of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Outside initiative to engage the next generation of outdoor stewards and inspire millions of young adults to play, learn, serve and work in the great outdoors, Shawn Blanchard from Mayor Duggan’s Office joined Kristen Sarri, Principal Deputy Assistant…
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Meagan Scaringe

July 22, 2015
Healthy Living / Youth Development

A real hero

By Lori Mabee, Senior Program Director, South Oakland Family YMCA I’m the sweeper for our Girls on the Run & STRIDE 5K, which means I’m the last person to finish the race, making sure everyone finishes safely. The program is about building character and confidence in young boys and girls over a period of 10…
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Meagan Scaringe

July 10, 2015
Healthy Living / News Coverage / Press / Social Responsibility / Youth Development

News: Detroit dad learns to swim for the love of his daughter

Featured on WDIV Keith Godley used to sit on the sidelines as his daughter learned to swim at the Boll Family YMCA. He was afraid of the water because he had never learned to swim. Now, the 50-year-old father is swimming three times per week, at least. He credits his love for his daughter for diving…
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Meagan Scaringe

June 22, 2015
Healthy Living / News Coverage / Press / Social Responsibility

News: YMCAs across Metro Detroit hoping to set world record Thursday

Featured on Hometownlife.com On Thursday, June 18, YMCAs across Metropolitan Detroit will help set the Guinness World Record™ for the World’s Largest Swim Lesson™ in 24 Hours. Organized by a coalition of the nation’s water safety experts and training organizations called Team World’s Largest Swim Lesson™ (WLSL), the event aims to expose the importance of…
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Meagan Scaringe

June 17, 2015
Healthy Living / News Coverage / Press / Social Responsibility / Youth Development

News: Free swim classes on Belle Isle for Detroit youth

Featured on WDIV Channel 4 visits the Y to learn about free swim lessons on Belle Isle for Detroit kids ages 8-13, as part of the Detroit Swims program. Lessons will kick off on June 20, 2015. The Y provides swim suits, caps, and goggles. Parents or guardians may register in person at the Boll…
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Meagan Scaringe

June 17, 2015
Healthy Living

How a promise turned this dad into an Ironman competitor

By Joseph Wilson, father of Girls on the Run participant Girls on the Run and the YMCA hold a special place in my heart. Whether it was shooting baskets at my local Y as a kid, or watching my daughter, now 13, enjoy two seasons of Girls on the Run a few years ago, I…
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Meagan Scaringe

April 20, 2015

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