Ohio Alliance Of Ymcas

Programs: Investing in our young and school age kids is critical to our future:ohio ymcas provide children under age six with critical, quality early learning and school age kids with safe, dependable places to grow before and after school and during the summer. Adequate financial support is crucial to ensure kindergarten readiness and school age reading proficiency. Thousands of working parents, and their employers, rely on early care and school age programs to teach our kids and support ohio's workforce. The ymcas are the largest early care and education providers in ohio. Helping children develop educationally and socially is a critical part of the ymca's mission. In these programs, we serve kids under age six. Child care is early learning for children as young as six weeks, and no longer "babysitting". Investment in quality child care leads to kindergarten readiness, increased 3rd grade reading proficiency, better graduation rates, reduced need for intervention, less involvement with the juvenile justice system, and a ready workforce for the future. Child care is economic development. Early care and education is crucial to support ohio's working parents. 564,000 children under age six have parents in ohio's workforce. Those parents, and their employers, rely on quality child care to teach and care for their children while they support their families.

preventing and helping treat diabetes in healthy living:healthy living at the y is not just about physical activity, but also about equipping our communities to prevent and fight chronic disease. Through activate ohio, ohio ys have enabled thousands of low-income pre-diabetic and diabetic ohioans to prevent and manage diabetes. Our program also prevents secondary conditions that stem from unmanaged diabetes. We have reduced those individuals' health care costs dramatically. Our program yields huge healthcare cost savings to medicaid, medicare, and private insurers, as well as employers. Each ohioan with unmanaged diabetes costs $6,500 per year. The secondary conditions that stem from diabetes, such as stroke and heart attack, cost over $100,000 to treat. Total medical costs of diabetes in just ohio exceed $3. 8 billion. Ohio employers lose over $2 billion per year due to diabetic employees' absenteeism, reduced productivity, and early mortality. Our program works. 79% of our participants entered our program with diabetes. 82% of them had a bmi of 27. 5 or higher. Over 67% improved their a1c blood glucose levels. Our program pays for itself. Each year the program is funded, we change over 1,200 lives. Our ten-week program, including a six-month follow up, costs less than $500 per person. We partner with certified diabetic educators, registered dietitians, and nurses, whose services outside our program would cost over $4,000.