Supporting the YMCA military outreach initiative
As part of the new Armed Services YMCA (ASYMCA) and Department of Defense (DoD) Outreach Initiative, The YMCA of South Palm Beach County will provide military families with access to youth development, family strengthening, and health and well-being programs. Membership fees will be underwritten by the DoD and administered through Military OneSource, an information and referral service for military families. YMCA of the USA, the national resource office for America’s 2,686 YMCAs, will help launch the initiative at participating YMCAs across the country.

The ASYMCA-DoD Outreach Initiative responds to a provision in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2008, which requires the Secretary of Defense to develop a plan to support military family readiness and to ensure that military family readiness programs and activities are available to all deployed National Guard and Reserve families, and some active duty families in certain special categories.

Eligible military families participating in the initiative are eligible for YMCA memberships based on participation requirements. Those eligible to participate in the new initiative include:

• All interested families of joint deployed National Guard and Reserves of all military branches;
• Families living in newly established Joint Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) bases;
• Active Duty Independent Duty station personnel and their families; and
• Relocated spouses and family members of deployed Active Duty personnel.

Please contact Heidi Weisman for more information, (561) 395-9622, HWeisman@ymcaspbc.org