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- EIN 55-0631259
- 3046755899
- PO Box 239 Point Pleasant WV 25550 USA
- www.hi-y.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Children & Youth, Human Services, Young Mens or Womens Associations, Youth Development Programs
Mission: The Ohio-West Virginia YMCA believes that helping youth achieve their full potential is its primary mission. The organization seeks to help youth develop leadership and citizenship skills for a lifelong commitment to service through character building programs for all that strengthen spirit, mind, and body. The organization strives to extend HI-Y (High School YMCA) into every Ohio and West Virginia Community and for HI-Y to be a national leader in helping youth develop into lifelong good citizens of the community who work to create better futures for all. Among the YMCA's objectives are: to prepare a new generation of leaders dedicated to service; to strengthen the leadership available to local communities; to enable people to direct their lives to success and service to others; to work to change conditions so youth, families, schools, and communities can succeed; and to speak on behalf of children and youth.
Programs: Local yla (youth leadership association) youth groups engage teens in a process of civic leadership development through service. Teens assess the strengths and area of need in their school and community, identify the kind of school and community they want, create and carry out programs and service initiatives to achieve their vision, and reflect on their work to strengthen future action. Most ylas are school based. Others are community based. Yla welcomes participation from every community. Other youth groups may join yla to expand their program while keeping their own name and organization. Youth wanting their own youth group create yla groups. A local yla experience is enhanced as teens participate away from home in state and regional yla program conferences, youth in government three-day student legislature and supreme court, youth in government seminars at the state capitol, and model united nations three-day assemblies. These experiences help teens apply classroom lessons of research, writing, public speaking, parliamentary procedure, debate, consensus building, making decisions, and working with others to state issues in youth in government and international issues in model united nations.
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