A Report on
Canada's YMCA in 2010

• Report home
• Chair & President's message
• Canada's YMCA factsheet
• Nurturing the potential of kids, teens and young adults
• Promoting healthy living
• The Numbers
• The Voices
• Fostering social responsibility
• Building a stronger YMCA
• Thank you
• Financials
• Find your Y

YMCAs in Canada are helping people transform their own lives by offering opportunities for active recreation, and by freely sharing our expertise about the ingredients of good health for individuals and communities. Partnerships like those we forged this year with the CBC and the Assembly of First Nations are helping us share ideas and tools for healthy living more widely. In 2010:

• 85% of YMCAs in Canada hosted free Healthy Kids Day events in their communities to celebrate and encourage healthy living for children and families.
• 60 rehabilitation-oriented organizations worked with the YMCA to support people recovering from injury, stroke, or cardiac events.
• 20 organizations worked with the YMCA to provide exercise and recreation opportunities for people with disabilities.
• 1,000,000 Canadians learned about healthy habits through CBC's Live Right Now campaign. The YMCA collaborated and consulted as an Advisory Board member.
• 1,000,000 people in Canada participated in YMCA Health, Fitness and Recreation programs.

The Voices