We would like to thank all the families and volunteers who helped make our 2018-2019 After School Program such a success! We had over 680registered After School members this year alone and we were able to offer over 35 different programs with help from our volunteers, staff and community partners! Some programs included boxing, fishing, sign language, soccer, nutrition, homework help, and Pound just to name a few!
The MYC works together with other community organizations to provide resources and opportunities for youth to make healthy decisions. The MYC works to provide local youth with the necessary activities and events that help them develop physically, mentally, socially and emotionally through their childhood years. By providing Milford youth with these types of programs and a safe environment during the after-school hours and during our monthly events, we hope to address adolescent risk factors as well as promoting the partnership among community members to ensure a comprehensive vision and plan for the health of the youth in the town of Milford.
For this reason, we would like to thank our over 90 after school volunteers for this year, hundreds more through our events, as well as all of our community partners! For example, we couldn’t run many of our fitness programs without the support of the Milford Regional Medical Center! The Milford Regional Medical Center funds the instructors for our programs, like POUND, Cardio Dance Jam and Fit Camp! We also served over 900 nutritional snacks, which is provided to members who participate in any of our physical fitness and/or nutritional programs.
The Center also is able to offer a free snack and dinner to all after school members, due to the collaboration of CACFP, Hockomock Area YMCA, Milford Area Humanitarian Coalition and the Milford School Food
& Nutrition Services department! Due to this partnership, we have served
over 8,000 dinners and snacks during this year’s After-School program!
Without all of our community support we would not have achieved this! We are so excited for our After-school program to grow with new volunteers and programs and can’t wait to see what new and returning programs we offer next school year!