The 12th annual Challenge Your Fashion event on Saturday, January 26, 2019 was filled with fun, fashion and great times. This great night for a great cause benefits the  YMCA of Greater Kansas City’s Challenger program, which helps children and young adults with diverse abilities gain strength, confidence, friendship, and more.

This playoff season, stay in the game and continue your healthy eating habits with this useful game day game plan.

The Y offers warming centers as a part of our commitment to social responsibility and helping neighbors in a time of need. All Y locations are open to the public as warming centers when the National Weather Service has issued a Wind Chill Advisory, Wind Chill Watch or Wind Chill Warning for our area.

Help the Y make our community stronger by participating in fun, family-friendly service projects for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service on Monday, January 21.

Y sports are now offered by region instead of Y location to better serve families.

This holiday season Claire Walsh, Registered Dietitian and Nutritionist, is keeping you in the game with helpful tips on how to stay healthy.

Along with singing “Auld Lang Syne” at the start of the New Year, making resolutions is a tradition for millions of Americans. However, while choosing resolutions can be easy, sticking to them is hard.

A YMCA of the USA survey found that less than a quarter of respondents kept their resolutions. Forty percent confessed they gave up within the first few months, even weeks, of the New Year!

While there is no “right way” to keep a resolution, the YMCA of Greater Kansas City is encouraging community members to give their New Year’s resolutions a boost by:

Winter is just around the corner, which means cold and flu symptoms are on the rise. According to the CDC, December - February is peak time for the flu.  So as we prepare to gather with friends and family, let’s not forget that the best way to avoid getting sick is to help prevent the spread of germs.
 
If you follow some of the tips below, your chances of catching a cold or the flu can go down.
 

Construction kicked off on the Downtown YMCA/Kirk Family Community Center at the former Lyric Theatre building on Friday, November 16. Donors, volunteers, members and the community gathered for a celebration on the front steps of the historic Lyric building. Read the event re-cap.

During National Diabetes Awareness Month, the YMCA of Greater Kansas City is encouraging members of the community to learn their risks for prediabetes and type 2 diabetes.