Programming

With May as National Water Safety Month, Judi Christy of the Akron Area YMCA, shares about the Safety Around Water education program. Before I started...

In the May/June 2023 issue, we spoke with Ben Engelbrecht, a personal trainer at the Northeast YMCA — a branch of the YMCA of Greater Louisville...

Since 1995, Wesley King, the owner and founder of Wesley King Consulting, has trained over 3,000 lifeguards and provided valuable advice to countless aquatics facilities....

While the pickleball craze is still going strong, a new sport called spec tennis is also starting to pick up momentum throughout the U.S. Originally...

Through its partnership with the YMCA of the USA, the Livestrong Foundation is helping to improve the lives of countless cancer survivors across the country....

Welcome to Community Voices, a platform for voices of the community recreation industry. In Episode 6 of the Community Rec Magazine Podcast, Justin Dominick, the...

The YMCA of Greater San Antonio is looking to make the outdoors more welcoming, accessible and inclusive for youth from communities of color and low-income...

The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago announced on March 8 its Camp Pinewood branch will transition to YMCA Family Camp Pinewood. This new iteration is meant...

To provide swimmers the safest environment possible, the Ann Arbor YMCA recently installed an artificial intelligence system to monitor the Y’s Aquatics Center. James Highsmith,...

The YMCA of the North is getting right to the point when it comes to providing a multitude of healing/recovery options for visitors. The Y...