Healthy Living, Healthy Community Blog

Eric has recently rejoined the Y as a volunteer at the Lakewood Family YMCA to work with seniors to improve their physical and emotional well-being.

Our kids are spending countless hours in front of screens and are lacking much-needed physical activity and social engagement. As spring approaches, parents are seeking opportunities to get kids active and outdoors in a healthy and safe environment. 

Finding the right time to start on the path to weight loss can be more difficult than it would seem. The pressures of life can get in the way, leaving the first steps of setting weight loss goals and planning on the backburner. As Wendy would discover, it can take a single health scare to act as the catalyst to start taking weight loss seriously.

Our thoughts, prayers, and condolences are with the victims and families of the senseless violence that occurred yesterday in Atlanta and that has occurred throughout the country targeting our Asian Pacific Islander community.

Many kids are spending more time looking at screens than ever before. This also means kids are engaged in less physical activity and fewer social activities. Many parents are juggling work and distance learning, leaving little time to consider extracurricular activities.

Did you know that Black History Month has roots associated with the YMCA? In 1915, Carter G. Woodson (pictured above), a University of Chicago alumnus, arrived in Chicago to attend a national celebration of the 50th anniversary of emancipation sponsored by the state of Illinois.