Health & Fitness Programming

This program offers a variety of activities for children including sports, crafts, active games and fitness. The goal of this program is to encourage children to have a healthy lifestyle in a supervised, fun and safe environment.

Included in:

• All Memberships

This program will keep your little ones moving and is designed to keep children actively engaged in music through the use of songs and dance.

Included in:

• Child Enhanced and Everything Memberships
• Household Essentials, Enhanced and Everything Memberships

Dance involves movement of the body, ususally rhytmic and to music. It’s a fun form if expression, social interaction and exercise.

Included in:

• Child Everything Membership
• Household Everything Membership

Drama classes give our participants a chance to access their creativity, boost their self-confdence, develop spontaniety and playfulness.

Included in:

• Child Enhanced and Everything Memberships
• Household Essentials, Enhanced and Everything Memberships

Participants in this program get the opportunity to explore their creativity by utlizing a number of different mediums.

Included in:

• Child Enhanced and Everything Memberships
• Household Essentials, Enhanced and Everything Memberships

Participants in this program get the opportunity to explore their creativity by utlizing a number of different mediums.

Included in:

• Child Enhanced and Everything Memberships
• Household Essentials, Enhanced and Everything Memberships

Parents and children will have a great time getting messy and creating works of art in this fun and interactive class.

Included in:

• All Memberships

Become a Y Silly Scientist and learn to do fun experiments through hands-on activities.

Included in:

• Child Enhanced and Everything Memberships
• Household Essentials, Enhanced and Everything Memberships

Harness your passion to help people and provide them with life skills such as swimming proficiency, water safety awareness, and enjoyment of the open water. Gain certifications valuable to future careers, which include National Lifeguard, First Aid and Swim Instructor

Included in:

• Individual, Senior, and Household Everything Membership
  (non-member pricing is available. Manuals not included)

Become a certified Babysitter with a recognized organization. Participants get hands on experience within the Y and assignments to complete.

Included in:

• Child Everything Membership
• Household Everything Membership

The Home Alone Program is designed to provide children 10 years of age and older with the necessary skills and knowledge to be safe and responsible when home alone for short periods of time. It will help them understand how to prevent problems, handle real-life situations, and keep them safe and constructively occupied.

Included in:

• Child Everything Membership
• Household Everything Membership

In a group of like-minded individuals, your child will explore their values and learn how to be a succesful leader. Your child will gain an appreciation for open mindedness, self-refelction, positive peer relationships and community involvement through this mentorship program.

Included in:

• Child Everything Membership
• Household Everything Membership

This program offers the opportunity for physical activity in a structure enviroment for children. The goal of this program is to encourage children to have a healthy lifestyle in a supervised, fun and safe environment.

Included in:

• All Memberships

This program offers the opportunity for physical activity in a structure enviroment for children. The goal of this program is to encourage children to have a healthy lifestyle in a supervised, fun and safe environment.

Included in:

• All Memberships

Goderich Branch Only

This program is an opportunity for participants to engage in a variety of different sports. They will learn the basic skills needed to play the game. Check with your YMCA branch for specific, mandatory protective equipment when registering.

Included in:

• All Memberships

Goderich Branch Only

This program is intended as an introduction to develop basic basketball skills such as dribbling, passing and shooting through different variations of drills and games.

Included in:

• Child Enhanced and Everything Memberships
• Household Essentials, Enhanced and Everything Memberships

Goderich Branch Only

Included in:

• All Memberships

Get active! Spend time together as a family participating in a variety of activities and sports.

Included in:

• All Memberships

Goderich Branch Only. Members are invited to enjoy walking the track as a family. Children under the age of 12 years of old are required to have parent/guardian supervision.

This program is intented as an introduction for children to develop basic hockey skills suck as stick handling, passing and shooting through different variations of drills and games. Check with your YMCA branch for specific, mandatory protective equipment when registering.

Included in:

• Child Enhanced and Everything Memberships
• Household Essentials, Enhanced and Everything Memberships

This program focuses on learning the game of soccer. It will introduce basic skills like dribbling, passing and shooting. Children will have the opportunity to apply their skills in scrimmage games.

Included in:

• Child Enhanced and Everything Memberships
• Household Essentials, Enhanced and Everything Memberships

A non-aggressive approach towards conflict resolution is emphasized in this program as well as instruction in all the basick blocks, kicks and striking techniques.

Included in:

• Child Everything Membership
• Household Everything Membership

Goderich Branch Only

Included in:

• All Memberships

Goderich Branch Only

Included in:

• All Memberships

Goderich Branch Only

Included in:

• All Memberships

Goderich Branch Only

Included in:

• All Memberships

This service is included with all Household and Child memberships and is complementary (i.e. no membership for the child is needed) within the Individual and Senior Memberships.

Included in:

• All Child Memberships
• All Household Memberships
• Individual Everything Membership (for a child(ren) of the member)
• Senior Everything Membership (for a child(ren) of the member)