$1.4M in expenses

Youth development: tri-town YMCA provides nurturing youth enrichment and care programs such as y kids and summer day camp programming. Through these programs, participants deepen their knowledge of positive values through a broad range of experiences that simultaneously enrich cognitive, social, physical, and emotional growth. Subsidies and financial assistance are made available and provide equitable access to youth development opportunities at tri-town YMCA. In 2024, these programs had 854 youth enrolled and the organization delivered approximately 5,300 hours of social emotional learning curriculum. These resulted in approximately 22,000 touchpoints in social emotional learning experiences.

$78K in expenses

Healthy living: tri-town YMCA provides healthy living programs and services that are supportive of people's total well-being. This is particularly important as our nation struggles with an obesity epidemic, families struggle with work/life balance, and individuals search for improved quality of life. This is accomplished with equitable access to nutritious feeding programs, vaccination clinics, and mental health counseling services. In 2024, 447 youths enrolled in youth mentoring services and/or mental health counseling/psychosocial educational programs.

$88K in expenses

Social responsibility - tri-town YMCA supports the existing and emerging needs of the community through equitable social responsibility programs and services. This is accomplished through participation and leadership of communitywide collaborations activities, meetings, and events that are reflective of the local culture. In response to the growing gap in early childhood services, tri-town YMCA implemented the villa park area early childhood collaborative to focus on the needs of children birth through eight years of age and their care circles. In addition, in response to the fallout of the pandemic and the mental health needs of youths and families, tri-town YMCA launched a communitywide collaboration focused on providing programs and services that provide access to mental health counseling services and community education that supports each individual's total well-being - spirit, mind, and body. In 2024, the organization hired two new full-time parent navigators to support referral and coordination of programs that meet the basic needs of families.