La Jolla YMCA Offers Support to Families and Individuals in the Community

The La Jolla YMCA offers encouragement and support to the community during challenging and uncertain times, like those the community is facing right now as a result of the economic downturn.

Like so many Americans, members of our community are feeling overwhelmed, stressed and powerless in these challenging economic times. Now more than ever, we need to focus on the important areas of our lives where we have the power to make a positive difference – our health and well-being, our family and our community.

This is a good time for families and individuals to renew their focus on three areas that the YMCA believes form the foundation for strong, healthy families and communities:

Physical Exercise: Even at moderate levels, physical exercise can reduce the physical and emotional symptoms of stress, depression and anxiety.  Over the long term, regular exercise can ward against the physical and financial toll of chronic diseases like heart disease and diabetes.  Experts agree that investing in health and well-being always offers a positive return.

Family Strengthening is equally important.  Make family time a priority and include children in discussions about how to trim budgets.  Eating dinner as a family or enjoying a Saturday afternoon activity together can bring families closer and reinforce the idea that family members support one another in difficult times.

Connections to community, bind people together, offer support and give people an important sense of belonging.  Getting engaged in one’s community, volunteering to help others in need and enjoying friendship and camaraderie enrich lives and make individuals, families and communities stronger and more resilient.

For more than 160 years, YMCAs have supported families and individuals in good times and during some of the most challenging periods in our nation’s history.  The La Jolla YMCA has been serving the community for over 46 years and offer something for everyone in the family including: a newly remodeled state-of-the-art fitness center, over 90 group exercise classes per week, water exercise classes, lap swimming, swim team and recreational swim, gymnastics and dance classes, youth sports beginning at the age of two, adult basketball leagues and pick-up games, volleyball, tennis,  family programs, teen programs, day camp and child care.

The La Jolla YMCA offers financial assistance, to those who qualify to make YMCA programs and services more affordable to all members of the community.

Times of change and uncertainty are not times to go it alone.  We encourage members of our community to come together and support one another.  Take a walk, get together with neighbors, volunteer, and get active and involved through the La Jolla YMCA.

For more information on our programs or membership, please visit our web site at lajolla.ymca.org or call (858) 453-3483.