Because of YOU, nearly 500 kids thrived during the school year academically, socially and physically.
Because of YOU, cancer survivors are improving their strength and diminishing the effects of therapy side effects with a program they can follow from home.
Because of YOU, nearly 1,000 kids in Eugene, Springfield and Cottage Grove spent the summer learning and growing through play to prepare them for the new school year.
Because of YOU, 2,331 children, families and individuals have access to a warm and welcoming community, safe spaces, movement and youth enrichment activities through the Y’s financial assistance program.
Thank you for your continued partnership in helping to create a happier and healthier community for ALL. Your impact is especially critical during the pandemic when Y services are desperately needed by so many. THANK YOU!
As 2021 comes to a close, please consider the Eugene Family YMCA as one of your priorities for your end-of-year giving contributions. Our innovative response to meet community needs during the global pandemic depends upon individuals like YOU for support.
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If you are interested in creative ways to give, consider the following:
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Take Charge of Your Health: Reduce Your Diabetes Risk |
A new class starts in early October to reduce your risk of diabetes! The YMCA’s Diabetes Prevention Program is a lifestyle change program for adults with prediabetes and is led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
What: YMCA’s Diabetes Prevention Program
Dates: Tuesdays starting early October for one year (meets weekly for 16 weeks,
then bi-monthly and then monthly for the last 6 months)
Time: 6 to 7 p.m.
Where: In-person at the Y or on Zoom: Your choice!
Qualifications: Must have prediabetes (or previous gestational diabetes), not type 2 diabetes
Cost: 12 payments of $35.75. Scholarships available.
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Your Y is HIRING!
Love your Y Staff? Join the team!
We are hiring in several departments:
- Youth Development
- Health & Wellness and
- Youth Sports
Find the role that is right for YOU!
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Fall Basketball Clinics Teach Skills, Sportsmanship |
K-5 students are invited to play ball with the Y in specially designed basketball clinics twice a week. Middle schoolers are invited to a 6-week schedule of jamboree-style basketball games.
We hope you enjoy hearing the squeak of basketball shoes on the Y gym floor while these kiddos learn new skills!
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Art for All Wall Features Blake Robertshaw |
Please take a stroll through the Y’s Art for All Wall hallway to view longtime Y member Blake Robertshaw’s inspired photography. His images capture Oregon’s beauty as well as the ongoing impacts of climate change and deforestation.
“From the airplane, I can see the enormous influence we have on the landscape; our story is being carved onto ancestral lands. My hope is that by sharing these images with you I can show you what lies beyond the tree line,” he says.
He credits the Y with introducing him to yoga, and he is thrilled to showcase his work on the Y’s walls.
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Virtual Hub Helps You Get Your Zen On! |
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Beginning October 11, two new classes join our line-up of virtual classes on the Y’s Virtual Hub!
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Gentle Vinyasa: Mondays at 10:30 a.m. This class focuses on mindfully blending yoga poses (asana) with breath work (pranayama) to flow through practice at a quicker pace.
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Vinyasa Restore: Thursdays at 5:30 p.m.The first half of class begins with creative, slower-paced vinyasa sequences. Then, slow down and relax with expansive restorative poses for the second half of class.
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Congratulations, Y Women’s Tennis Team! |
The Y's 65+ women’s tennis team is headed to Arizona for NATIONALS in January! CONGRATS Captain Connie Clark, and players Jill Schoner, Kathy Gibbs, Ayako James, Esther Celis, Nancy Blickenstaff, Sheryl Brown, Janise Augur, Deb DeLong, Lee Ann Thompson, Melissa Pohl & Tammy Skubinna.
The team won the local league, and traveled to Sectionals in Vancouver, WA, Sept. 17. The team won the division with two sweeps (winning all 3 courts twice), which is extremely hard to attain and rarely done.
At the championship game, the first doubles lost their match against a strong team from Washington. The win rested on the rackets of second and third doubles: Both won their matches in 10-point tie-breakers!
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Families, Join the ESCAPE 2021 Triathlon! |
Do it your way and ESCAPE 2021!
Substitutions are welcome for this TRI, which invites you to track your progress until Jan. 15 toward an Ironman triathlon: 2.5-mile swim, 112-mile bike and a 26-mile run!
Perhaps you’d rather paddle your kayak than swim? Or use the elliptical machines rather than bike? Or walk with a friend instead of run? THIS IS YOUR RACE!
COST: $10 for Y members, $20 for community members
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Please note: Group Exercise Class Limits
As we navigate the changing needs of the pandemic, we continue to do our best to meet the needs of all of our members.
Because our class sizes are limited, each class now serves fewer people. They are filling up and our waitlists are long!
For the time being, we ask that you please limit your registrations to one class per room per day. (One class in the Meading Room upstairs and one class in the Movement Center downstairs, for example.)
This allows more people to experience our incredible instructors and group exercise classes! Thank you!
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Virtual Breast Cancer Conference Informs, Uplifts |
Your Y’s partner, Oregon Cancer Foundation, hosts the 2nd annual Topics in Breast Cancer Mini-Conference over Zoom this Saturday for patients and survivors.
Your Y’s own Colleen Hogan will explain the creation of RECLAIM: Cancer Exercise Video Series and Beth Casper will talk about her own journey as a two-time breast cancer survivor.
Register for the FREE conference HERE.
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November Membership Drive Allows New Members to Pay the Day!
As you already know, COVID-19 negatively impacted your Y’s membership.
In an effort to regain previous members and draw new members, your Y will be promoting a fun campaign called “Pay the Day” in November.
New or returning members pay the day of the month for the entire month’s membership and joining fee. For example, an individual who signs up for membership on Nov. 2 pays $2 or signs up on Nov. 14 pays $14 for the month of November.
Help us spread the word! Information HERE.
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It is with disappointment and sadness that we announce we will not hold a Halloween party this year due to COVID-19.
Thank you for your understanding as we balance the need to provide social/emotional outlets for the community with our responsibility to protect the safety of our community members.
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“The success of a nonprofit is limited by its ability to continue its revenue-generating programs. COVID-19 created unprecedented obstacles for many organizations, including the Y which closed its doors to fitness-goers for almost 23 weeks and ran youth programs with a fraction of the children to meet COVID-safety protocols.”
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Medical Matters, a monthly magazine from Lane County Medical Society, included the Y’s story about our RECLAIM: Cancer Exercise Video Series (starts on page 28).
"Surgery and cancer treatment can be difficult to recover from," said Winnie Henderson, a breast surgical oncologist with Oregon Surgical Wellness. "I often advise light exercise with trained specialists because it improves my patients' quality of life and, ultimately, their outcomes. Pre-COVID, I recommended LIVESTRONG at the YMCA; now I send my patients to the RECLAIM videos because it is a COVID-safe cancer exercise series from a trusted source."
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The 2nd Monday of October is Indigenous Peoples' Day!
Join us as we honor the fact that Lane County is on the traditional homelands of the Kalapuya.
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