Healthy Living
This physical area of the YMCA is where members begin their well-being journey through exercise, equipment use, and connection.
What is the wellness floor?
5 interconneted conditions, the LA Y takes a comprehensive approach in responding to the needs of all people throughout the LA region by addressing these.
What are the social determinants of health?
This program rose to prominence in the 1980’s at the Torrance-South Bay YMCA to support women who were returning to the workforce in droves.
What is Child Care?
This website, an extension of YMCALA.ORG, is where team members can access employee perks, training information and other internal resources.
What is Team Connect?
At 86,000 square feet, this is the largest YMCA facility in terms of square footage in our Association.
What is the Stuart M. Ketchum Downtown YMCA?
This internal sharepoint site is where you can find all current LA Y logo files as well as other LA Y branding resources.
What is the Marketing Hub?
This is the process of projecting future revenue and expenses based on trends, data, and expected changes to support informed decision-making.
What is forecasting?
These 3 components form the foundation of membership growth.
What are prospects (or leads), tours, and joins?
This program is one of the strongest drivers of member engagement and retention in healthy living.
What is Group Exercise?
Through the Together in Service movement, the LA Y and our partners are aiming to log 25 million hours of service by what year?
What is 2029?
This National YMCA Program, once called "Boys and Young Men of Color" (BYMOC), got its start in the LA Y in East LA through the Brothers, Sons, Self initiative.
What is Young Men Thriving (YMT)?
This professional YMCA role is the only one to require a YMCA Leadership certification.
What is the Chief Executive Officer role?
These 3 LA Y centers are known for their iconic greenhouse-style enclosures over their pools.
What are the Culver-Palms, East Valley, and Montebello-Commerce YMCAs?
This was recently secured for the Center for Community Well-Being, signaled by a small "r" at the end.
What is a trademark?
These 2 components make up the practice of aligning financial plans with the organization’s long-term goals and mission to ensure that resources support strategic priorities.
What are vision and budgeting?
This key metric tracks how many guests or prospects ultimately become paying members.
What is the conversion rate?
This newly created YMCA position is responsible for helping members understand how to safely use equipment and feel confident on the wellness floor.
What is a Belonging and Well-Being Champion?
Offering fresh produce, this program is currently offered at 19 of our LA Y Centers.
What is Feed LA?
Following in the legacy of Jackie Robinson, this YMCA partner/foundation has built Dreamfields, funded Dreamteams and once called it's signature youth program, "RBI".
What is the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation?
Created in 1921, this group has existed with the purpose of providing benefits for employees after concluding a career of service with the YMCA.
What is the YMCA Retirement Fund?
One of our more recent Centers, this YMCA location was originally a Baptist church that became a Y in 1924.
What is the Burbank YMCA?
When you need a flyer or sign, filling out this form will prompt support from the Marcom team.
What is a creative request form?
This is the comparison of actual financial results to the budget to identify differences and understand the reasons behind them.
What is variance analysis?
Currently being piloted at several Centers, this system is used to manage prospect pipelines, track follow-ups, and improve sales accountability.
What is HubSpot CRM?
These are the three main categories of equipment found on the wellness floor that support various training goals.
What are cardio equipment, strength equipment, and functional training equipment?
Recognized by the Dep. of Justice (DOJ) and accredited through the Office of Legal Access Programs (OLAP), this LA Y program offers affordable immigration law outreach, screening, referrals, and application assistance.
What is Immigration Assistance?
The "Early Learning Readiness" Program, or ELR - a safe place where young minds ages 0-5 learn and grow, while building the adult caregiver’s skills as their child’s first teacher - is generously funded by this foundation.
What is the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation?
Once called the International YMCA Training School where the game of basketball was created, it now offers tuition assistance to current YMCA employees.
What is Springfield College?
These two YMCA facilities in Los Angeles are officially designated historic landmarks, with both tied to the work of noted architect Paul R. Williams.
What are the 28th Street YMCA and the Hollywood YMCA?
A solo "Y" mark should be used without the additional "Center for Community Well-Being" verbiage if the image is this many inches or less.
What is 1.5" or less?
This document is used to track how exempt employees allocate their time across programs or funding sources to ensure accurate payroll and compliance.
What is a Personnel Activity Report (PAR)?
This promotional strategy allows members to bring guests at no cost on designated days, creating opportunities to convert new memberships.
What is Friends & Family Friday?
A key feature of the Center for Community Wellbeing framework, this is the process of connecting members across healthy living, youth development, and social impact so they stay engaged and feel that they belong.
What is the Pathways to Belonging?
Reclaim Your Calm, The Calm Toolkit Program and Mending the Gap are examples of emotional well-being programs delivered by this LA Y role/position.
Who are Community Well-Being Specialists?
This young man from the Anderson Munger Y was elected as the 2026 MLC Youth Governor.
Who is Devon Jasiukonis?
In the Center for Community Well-Being framework, each Area of Impact is grounded by Our Approach, defined by these three markers.
What are People-Focused, Place-Based and Community-Centered?
This is the total number of bodies of water currently operated by the LA Y across its facilities.
What is 43?
While Center programs, updates and the Executive Director Message are featured in the monthly Center newsletter, THIS monthly communication is specifically created for our team members.
What is the Team Member newsletter?
This Microsoft tool is available to YMCA staff to help draft emails, brainstorm ideas, and support everyday work and is compliant with the Y’s AI Policy.
What is Copilot Chat?
This is our total membership unit goal that we're aiming for by December 2026, representing our long-term growth ambition.
What is 62,000 membership units?