Jefferson City Area YMCA

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2012

Signed

Aug 3, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$5,675,150

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Child care and child development center: school age children program objectives: to teach and strengthen the ymca's four core values of respect, responsibility, honesty and caring. To model positive, healthy lifestyles and habits through positive role models. To support individual diversity and family values. To provide guidance, encouragement and leadership for area youth. To promote enriching experiences that will strengthen academic development. During the school year, the ymca operates y-care. Y-care operates out of nine area schools in the morning and after-school hours. (continued on schedule o) y-care provides children with opportunities to explore art/humanities, science and technology, character development, reading, math, and physical fitness through a variety of hands-on activities at each site and serve as caring role models for children in our programs. During the summer, the ymca offers summer camp for school-age area children. The program operates daily for the full twelve weeks of summer vacation, and provides a safe, fun, and educational place for children to spend their summer. School age programming has been offered in jefferson city for 20+ years. We serve 500+ area children yearly. Child development center: the ymca child development center is a child care facility that cares for and educates children between the ages of six weeks to five years. The center is missouri accredited and provides a quality child care setting for children while their parents are at work or school. The center is licensed by the state for 136 children, serving children of various ages and abilities. The objectives of the child development center are to identify and assist all children in the four developmental areas: 1) social: to help children feel comfortable, trust their environment, form bonds with other adults and children. 2) emotional: to help children experience pride and self-confidence, develop independence and self-control, and have a positive attitude. 3) cognitive: to help children become confident learners by giving them opportunities to try out their own ideas and experience success, and by helping them acquire learning skills such as the ability to solve problems, ask questions, and use words to describe their ideas, observations, and feelings. 4) physical: to help children increase their large and small muscle skills and develop strength and control in these areas. Through the efforts of our staff to care for and educate the children in the center, our goal is to set a foundation for the children to be successful in their future learning at school. The school-age childcare program and the full day childcare program allow parents the opportunity to work while the ymca provides childcare services for their children. If not for subsidized childcare through the ymca, parents would stay at home and be dependent on the federal assistance program. One of the populations our programs serve most effectively are single parent families with multiple children. We have many families with 2, 3, even 4 children in our care. The vast majority of these are single mothers who are either working full-time or attending college in an effort to improve their financial situations. Outreach funds make it possible for these families to receive affordable care for children ages 6 weeks through 12 years. No other organization in town serves as many children, or as wide an age range of children, as the ymca. We believe this ability to help families with a wide range of childcare needs makes us unique and vital to the community. The full day care facility began operations in 2000. School-age childcare: y-care distributes program evaluations every winter. Summer camp has one program evaluation. We offer parent drawings and parties to schools with the most evaluations returned, which has increased our feedback from parents. 2012 y-care:1.55 2012 summer camp:1.38 child development center: the child development center sends out annual evaluations

Activity 3

Big brothers/big sisters: missouri valley big brothers big sisters provides children in single parent homes with a positive adult role model. We serve children that are affected by divorce or have lost a parent due to death and /or incarceration. We received 138 new inquiries in 2012 and made 50 new matches. A total of 136 children were actively matched throughout the year. Our average match length in our community based program is 26 months and 31 months for our school based program. We maintained 37 matches of children with an incarcerated parent in 2012.

Filer

EIN

43-0953286