YMCA membership benefits expand

My Y is Every Y statewide membership program kicks off.

For over 160 years, YMCAs in Indiana have been helping youth, adults and families reach their health and wellbeing goals through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body.

May 1, 2016 will mark a historic day, as Indiana’s YMCAs announce the My Y Is Every Y in Indiana statewide membership reciprocity program. Recognizing that the Y is one movement and wanting to encourage members to utilize the Y as often as they can in order to meet their health and wellness goals, the Y has created a program to allow members to use a Y in a different location when traveling, near a workplace, or in another region.

This program allows active, full facility/full privilege members the flexibility to use all 43 Y facilities in Indiana and also increases the value of Y membership.

Through the reciprocity program, those holding membership at any of Indiana’s 43 membership associations will be treated as regular members at any other association, will be able to register for programs at member rates and will receive member benefits at each membership association.

Y members interested in participating in the program should inquire at the Y in which they hold their membership (home Y), and will be required to use their home Y at least 51 percent of the time.

“The alliance of Indiana’s YMCAs is one of the nation’s strongest,” says Brent Wake, the executive director of the Indiana State Alliance of YMCAs. “We recognize our members’ and communities’ perception of there being One Y, and My Y Is Every Y builds on that perception to position us to be the backbone that supports Hoosiers’ meeting their health and wellness goals.”

For more information on the My Y is Every Y in Indiana, contact Mike Steffe at 812-367-2323 or mike@tricountyymca.org