$41.4M in expenses

Government funded programs and social responsibilityold colony YMCA is a premier human and social service provider in massachusetts. We hold state contracts with the office of community connections, the department of early education and care, department of youth services, department of children and families, department of mental health, department of public health, and the executive office of housing and livable communities. We also receive competitive federal grants and contracts from the department of labor, centers for disease control and prevention, and department of housing and urban development. Located throughout massachusetts, YMCA social service programs work to strengthen families and ensure youth have a long-term system of wraparound support and resources they need to succeed as they transition to adulthood. Our status as a premier youth development and human service provider for more than 50 years qualifies the YMCA to execute these state-funded contracts, which are complemented by all other y services services that are not often available or offered by other social service providers.in fy25, we provided residential detention, stabilization, and reintegration services for more than 1,000 adolescent young people and their families. Each participant receives classroom instruction, GED preparation, psychosocial assessments, shelter, mentoring, mental health services, drug abuse prevention services, family intervention sessions, and access to YMCA facilities. These programs include the brockton detention program, boys revocation program, brockton and new bedford emergency residences, southeast independent living program, lowell transition and independent living programs, youth and young adult residences in fall river, and the newly online fall river intensive treatment residential program for girls.other community-based programs for youth, young adults, and families include DMH-funded intensive home-based community services, and DCF-funded support and stabilization programs - a slate of 12 new models designed to support DCF-involved kids and families in the community. Our two family resource centers (taunton and attleboro) served nearly 1,800 people and provided nearly 5,000 services in fy25. DYS-funded community services network and diversion program continues to operate across southeastern massachusetts, while occ-funded community justice support centers representing 10 counties continue to grow and establish ocy's statewide presence. Dol-funded youthbuild workforce development programs in brockton and fall river serve teens and young adults seeking alternative academic and professional pathways. Finally, our safe corners street outreach team serves about 500 youth and young adults every year through the shannon collaborative and safe and successful youth initiative, both designed to reduce violence and interrupt gang activity in brockton.all families experiencing homelessness, whether entering our programs for the first time or transitioning out, receive wraparound supports and case management, along with an array of other services through the YMCA and our community partners. Three DHCD-funded facilities - the bolton place family center, the david jon louison center, and the family life center - combine to serve 63 families on site and in the community every day. Our fully licensed mental health and substance use clinic rebranded and relocated. Now known as comprehensive counseling, we provide services to 350 clients and continue to grow by offering new DCF-contracted group counseling options. The clinic has also mobilized its services in recent years, and now deploys behavioral specialists at camp locations throughout the summer to provide additional support to campers.

$24.4M in expenses

Child care and youth developmentold colony YMCA uses developmentally appropriate, evidence and research-based approaches to youth development. We pay particular attention to a child's social, emotional, cognitive, and physical growth. These principles permeate all our youth-centered programming. For parents who cannot afford services like camp, child care, or other services, financial assistance is available.at programs like youth focus in brockton, the YMCA mobilizes services beyond its walls and brings services to people where they are, improving accessibility and opportunity. During the school year, we provided afterschool care at brockton housing authority developments, and engaged 125 youth in fy25 in academic support, field trips, art, and recreational activities. Summer in the city is another example, as more than 300 young people participated in our drop-in summer program in fy25. To combat violence, gang activity, and general negative influences during the often forgotten summer months, we offer engaging daily events including sports, art, and educational activities free of charge to engage this hard-to-reach population.we served 4,146 children at 39 childcare and school age sites located throughout southeastern massachusetts in fy25, about half of which receive financial assistance either via the state or old colony YMCA's private scholarship program. Old colony YMCA is the largest provider of early childhood education/child care in southeastern massachusetts, offering infant, toddler, pre-school, and after-school programs. Childcare is also provided at our camp locations.in an effort to pair youth with a caring adult role model, the y offers two models of mentoring from the recently rebranded ocy mentoring: one-on-one community-based mentoring, as well as site-based group mentoring. Additional targeted youth development initiatives include summer leaders (camp and role modeling), kidz konnect (violence prevention and youth voice), youth and government (civic engagement), and various programs focused on reducing the academic achievement gap. Together, these programs create a continuum of services for youth of all ages. In total, these programs served 406 adolescents in fy25.old colony YMCA welcomes nearly 3,000 campers to more than 15,000 sessions of summer camp each year. Of those participants, about half received financial assistance. Camp clark in plymouth, YMCA camp in stoughton, camp satucket in east bridgewater, camp yomechas in middleboro, and camp taunton provide children with opportunities to continue learning, developing, and socializing during the summer months. Camp also offers leadership opportunities for older campers as part of our leader in training, counselor in training, or summer leaders programs. As a complement to summer camp, the y engages local school districts to offer free academic programming throughout the summer that couples with a unique camp experience to combat summer learning loss. The powerscholars program aims to increase elementary school literacy and math levels often lost during the summer, while summer leaders asks incoming high school students to serve as role models at camp.

$12.7M in expenses

Membership and healthy livingold colony YMCA has been providing health and wellness services and programming for 138 years, and is proud to have served more than 50,000 members during fy25. We continue our commitment for all people to have access to programs, memberships, and services, and thus we offer financial assistance for all prospective participants based on household income. In fy25, we welcomed nearly 1 million visits to our branches.healthy living and chronic disease initiatives - old colony YMCA leads work within community coalitions inside and outside our walls to offer medically based solutions to chronic diseases, fight cancer and diabetes, reduce health disparities amongst diverse populations, and view community health through a lens that is inclusive of all members regardless of race, age, economic status, or transportation. We work with community leaders, schools, medical professionals, and government to promote healthier lifestyles, increase cultural competency, create community linkages, and health people engage in the development of holistic vision for the spirit, mind, and body.in recent years, our efforts to create food security have blossomed due to immense need and the y's unique position to offer access. When it first opened in june 2021, the y community market in stoughton saw an average of 10 shoppers weekly. By march 2023, we reached the milestone of 100 shoppers per week. In summer 2024, thanks to a food infrastructure funding grant, we offer a transformed, market-style shopping experienced for our community. Smaller food insecurity programs throughout our service area augment our effort in stoughton, which serves as our hub for collection and distribution.old colony YMCA is comprised of 11 branches. In addition to three specialty, community branches (community-based child care, family services, and social services), we provide a multitude of other services for people of all ages and abilities through eight other locations: brockton central branch, brockton vincent and nancy marturano youth branch, east bridgewater branch, easton branch, middleboro branch, plymouth branch, stoughton branch, and taunton branch. Instructors and YMCA staff demonstrate the y's core values of caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility in all that we do.