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Y HEPA Team celebrates first year of positive outcomes

It’s been about a year our HEPA team implemented the CATCH curriculum into Afterschool and Camp programs, and we have seen some great preliminary results! Our preliminary results show that: 74% of students showed improvement in nutrition or physical activity knowledge 71% of students reported improvement in physical activity, nutritional, or screen time habits 97%…

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November 3, 2016

Social Responsibility / Youth Development

“Yes, I will make a difference” — how one girl made a difference in her community

Kylie Ryan is a courageous girl that participated in Girls on the Run during the Spring 2016 season. Kylie exemplified what it is to be a “Girl on the Run” over the summer as she raised $225 for the program by creating fun chalk drawings for her neighbors. “My mom suggested that I put my…

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September 16, 2016

Healthy Living

Making Healthy Food Fun – Cucumber Hummus Eyeballs

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July 25, 2016

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 / 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

Healthy Living / Youth Development

STRIDE Expands Its Reach

More than 300 boys –nearly 50 times as many as last year — will hit the streets in Downtown Ferndale on Sunday as part of the The Girls on The Run/STRIDE 5K. More than 4000 girls and 1000 adult volunteers will take the course, followed by the STRIDE graduates at around 10:30. The run represents…

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Amy Kuras

May 17, 2014

Healthy Living / Youth Development

Y Kids’ Hoop Dreams Come True

One lucky kid from the YMCA will get to be a ball boy (or girl) for the Detroit Pistons on Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, and around 50 more Y kids will be special guests at the game.

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Amy Kuras

January 17, 2014

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