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Birmingham Family YMCA Summer Camp staff is ready for the #bestsummerever

After a great day at camp training, Birmingham Family YMCA’s Summer camp staff is ready for the #bestsummerever!

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June 11, 2016

Social Responsibility / Youth Development

Breaking the Cycle, Changing Perceptions

“I have recently become involved at the Carls Family YMCA located in Milford and want to share something about my experience with you. I guard my time for charitable endeavors, devoting the vast majority of it to Rotary. That has certainly served me well, as I think it has drastically changed my life for the…

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May 13, 2016

Uncategorized / Youth Development

@ADouthetYMCA bringing smiles to #kids faces at the Metro Parent Camp Fair

@YMCADetroit working the metro parent #camp fair. @ADouthetYMCA bringing smiles to #kids faces. http://pic.twitter.com/DLFwCzzA2p — Birmingham_YMCA (@Birmingham_YMCA) March 6, 2016

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March 6, 2016

Livonia Family YMCA / News / Press / Social Responsibility / Youth Development

News: Livonia YMCA gives kids place to go after summer school

Featured on Hometownlife.com With the help of funds donated by the Livonia Kids and Families Foundation, 65 children attended summer camp at the Livonia Family YMCA after summer school let out each day for four weeks, from July 6 to July 30. The Livonia Kids and Families Foundation provided $11,000 to kick off this program…

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Meagan Scaringe

August 16, 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

Social Responsibility

More kids will go to summer camp thanks to the Birmingham Rotary!

On June 29, the Birmingham Rotary Club gave the Birmingham Family YMCA a gift of $2,500 toward the Annual Campaign, which will help send more kids to summer day camp this year. Our summer day camp program brings kids from all walks of life together so they can experience adventure, accomplishment and belonging while learning new skills and…

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Meagan Scaringe

July 1, 2015

News

News: Community Foundation awards Plymouth YMCA grant to develop teen leaders

With a $1,500 grant from the Community Foundation of Plymouth, the YMCA will have even more opportunity to nurture the potential of teens through a new summer Leaders in Training program.

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Meagan Scaringe

February 16, 2015

Youth Development

A lesson for everyone

What started as a lesson for children at day camp turned out to be an eye-opener for Y camp counselors and staff, too. At the Boll Family YMCA Summer Day Camp, staffers Kimberly Duchene and Kelly Plocharczyk invented an activity that they hoped would teach campers the importance of maturely expressing opinions and problem solving.…

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Meagan Scaringe

September 26, 2014

Youth Development

Plymouth Campers Solve A Mystery

The picturesque streets of downtown Plymouth were full of backpack-toting, green T-shirt-clad kid detectives on Friday. Day campers from the Plymouth Y made a circuit of the town to solve a mystery in a live-action Clue game. The activity was conceived by running program director Julie Allen and camp director Lisa Zawisza. Both had come…

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Amy Kuras

July 20, 2014

Healthy Living / Social Responsibility / Youth Development

Gardens Sprout Up at South Oakland

When community-minded people work together, good things grow. That’s true at the South Oakland YMCA, where a partnership between the Y and the Junior League of Birmingham has created a garden on a formerly empty patch of land next to the Y’s parking lot.

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Amy Kuras

June 8, 2014

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