Family Time

Fun for All Ages at the Y!

A family that plays together stays together. The Y is a caring community of all ages that's like a family. Come join us as we strengthen family bonds, build community, learn from each other, and play at the Y.

Y Adventure Guides:

How your children end up has a lot to do with where they start

  • Foster companionships and understanding and sets a foundation for positive, lifelong relationships between parent and child
  • Builds a sense of self-esteem and personal worth
  • Expands awareness of spirit, mind and body
  • Provides the framework to meet a mutual need of spending enjoyable, constructive and high-quality time together
  • Enhances the quality of family time
  • Emphasizes the role that parents play in the growth and development of their children
  • Offers an important and unique opportunity to develop and enjoy volunteer leadership skills

What is the Y Adventure Guides Program?

  • Formerly Indian Princesses and Indian Guides
  • Y Adventure Guides is a parent-child program designed to help foster a lifetime of understanding and companionship and to
  • Strengthen the relationship between children and parents.
  • For parents or other significant adults in children’s lives, and their children, age 5-9
    (Children over nine transition into Trailblazers, a program for older children who still wish to participate in Adventure Guide Programs.)
  • An adult and child attend all the program activities together
  • New members are placed into a Circle (a group of parent-child pairs)
  • A circle is the program’s most basic unit, providing structure, a sense of community, and support for all group activities
  • Circles meet twice a month
  • Parents and children will quickly learn from each other and develop positive relationships as they become “Friends Forever.”

Activities Include:

  • Camping
  • Hiking
  • Playing games
  • Singing songs
  • Story-telling
  • Making arts and crafts
  • Performing community service projects
  • Cooking out
  • Participating in family outings
  • Enjoying refreshments

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Family Volunteering

Work together as a family to get your Y ready for a special event, help with a work day at Camp Shady Brook, or get involved in another project of your choice.

Family Camp

Y Camp Shady Brook provides growth opportunities for kids as they get away from home and gain new independence. But camp is also a great place to enjoy with your family just before or after summer at Family Camps.

Family Fitness

Explore all of our Y facilities and try the family climbing walls, enjoy age appropriate exercise classes, be a kid and try the water slide together, try a modified version of racquetball, shoot some baskets and much more.