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Krista Bold, Sales and Retention Director, and Rhiannon McHugh, Membership, from the Rite-Hite Family YMCA
The YMCA originated as a faith-based organization that tried to meet the needs of the community. Following a recent reorganization, the YMCA now focuses on: 1. swimming, 2. education of youth, and 3. fitness.
Swimming is the number one priority because drowning is the second highest cause of accidental death. In addition to the pools at the Rite-Hite, the YMCA runs programs at pools in Milwaukee County parks and at their summer camp, where they teach 4-5 year olds to swim.
The Milwaukee YMCA continues to operate two early education learning centers. During their summer camp they include Fun Learning for Youth, or FLY, to decrease the drop in learning over the summer.
Fitness is more focused now that there is so much specialization and competition in the area. The Rite-Hite YMCA partners with other Ys and companies to provide services in fitness. They strive to be a leader in the Milwaukee area, adding classes in specialized exercise such as barre (ballet-based exercise) and yoga.
Rite-Hite continues programs for seniors, such as Silver Sneakers, yoga in a chair, pickleball, swimming and water aerobics. Over 3500 persons use the Rite-Hite facility each day.
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February 11th Membership Project Training
COPE Hotline is sponsoring a training for new volunteers on Saturday, Feb. 25th from 8am-1pm and Saturday, March 11th from 8am -1 pm. New volunteers must attend both sessions. COPE Hotline, which offers emotional support and crisis intervention to our callers, needs volunteer listeners. COPE fulfills its mission by providing a 24 hour hotline, a website, and outreach presentations and events. During the upcoming volunteer training, COPE staff end experts from the community will provide information and skills to new listeners in the areas of reflective listening, mental illness, suicide prevention and crisis intervention. In addition to two training sessions, eight hours of working with a veteran listener volunteer is required. After the completion of training, volunteers are asked to provide 2 - 4 hours per week of work as a listener. Flexible daytime and evening scheduling is available. Contact Miriam Stern, Volunteer Specialist at COPE for more information or to schedule an interview. 262-377-1477.
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The Fall Into Comedy committee is gearing up for the 2017 event. If you have extra baskets collecting dust in your basement (large enough to hold multiple items), the committee will put them to good use. We have depleted our collective collections and need baskets for the upcoming silent auction. Likewise, if you have Christmas/Chanukkah gifts that you won't use, please keep the committee in mind. We promise we won't tell!.jpg)
