For Youth DevelopmentFor Healthy LivingFor Social Responsibility
The YMCA Kingston and Ulster County is a private not-for-profit, community-based organization providing social, health, physical education and recreation services to the residents of Ulster County.
YMCA programs includes school-age child care, health enhancement / fitness classes, summer camps, swim lessons for all ages, special scholarship programs for low-income youth and families & physical rehabilitation programs. The YMCA serves all groups from infants to seniors.
The Y is a cause-driven nonprofit focused on three areas of impact: youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility.
Youth Development
Nurturing the potential of every child and teen
We believe all kids have potential and should have the opportunity to discover who they are, express themselves, and be nurtured in all their possibility.
Healthy Living
Improving Ulster County’s Health & Wellbeing
We believe that everyone has the desire to be well and that well-being is best cultivated by providing supportive relationships and environments. We also believe that all people should have the opportunity to be well in spirit, mind, and body.
Social Responsibility
Giving Back and Providing Support to Our Neighbors
We believe that we have a duty to try to help where help is needed. We believe that with support, resources and guidance, people can improve their own lives and the lives of others.
Mission Statement:
“The YMCA is an open, inclusive, interfaith movement which advocates Christian principles through programs that build character, respond to community needs and help build spirit, mind & body for all”
Diversity and Inclusion Statement:
Through its many different programs the YMCA seeks develop self-confidence, self-respect, celebrate and embrace our differences and similarities, grow as responsible family members and community citizens, appreciate that health of mind and body is a sacred gift, and that physical fitness and mental well-being are conditions to be achieved and maintained, recognize the worth of all persons and work for inter-racial and inter-group understanding develop capabilities for responsible leadership promote positive character development by challenging people to accept and demonstrate positive values of caring, honesty, respect and responsibility.
Each association is an independent organization, autonomous and separate from the YMCA of the USA.
