{"id":73891,"date":"2016-10-08T11:04:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T15:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=73891"},"modified":"2016-10-06T23:09:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T03:09:01","slug":"step-up-for-the-y-allows-expansion-of-oneida-ymca-facility-and-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=73891","title":{"rendered":"\u201cStep Up For the Y\u201d Allows Expansion of Oneida YMCA Facility and Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"YMCA<\/a>In 2012, the Oneida Family YMCA engaged in a $1,100,000\u00a0Capital Campaign entitled \u201cStep Up For the Y\u201d. This campaign was created to address a number of needs in\u00a0both the Rome and Oneida branches; however the largest portion of the effort was to construct a new\u00a0addition in the Oneida branch.<\/p>\n

From the generous support of YMCA Members, several donors in the\u00a0community, and the efforts of Assemblyman William Magee in securing funding from the Office of Children\u00a0and Family Services, the YMCA was able to reach the campaign goal, which included an expansion of the\u00a0Oneida building.<\/p>\n

The Oneida Family YMCA conducted significant studies to identify a programming\u00a0and facility gap in the existing building from 2010-2012.\u00a0 Due to the lack of rooms\u00a0for children ages 8-12 years old, the Y was at a loss for serving families with\u00a0children in this age category.<\/p>\n

Children over 8 years of age were identified as too old\u00a0for our child watch room, and children under 12 were too young for our weight room\u00a0and other areas of the building to be left unattended. This resulted in a gap of space\u00a0and programming for this crucial age for families to come to the Y together.<\/p>\n

In addition, the Oneida branch lacked meeting and educational space for\u00a0programming.\u00a0 The YMCA had been requested to host trainings, meetings,\u00a0workshops, lunch-and- learns, and adult education, however had no space available\u00a0to provide.<\/p>\n

The result was the construction of two rooms: a multi-purpose room, primarily for family programming and\u00a0a state-of- the-art conference room. The construction project is now complete, and the Y has received the\u00a0Certificate of Occupancy to begin programming.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Sept. 16, the Y hosted a tour of the new\u00a0addition for those who donated towards the campaign. Donors were provided with a program and\u00a0membership status update from our staff team and a preview of the programming space. New\u00a0programming that will be provided will include youth bounce houses, indoor miniature golf, bubble ball fun,\u00a0birthday party rentals, fitness testing as well as brand new adult cross training equipment and fitness\u00a0classes.<\/p>\n

The YMCA is confident members and the community will love the new expansion and programming that will\u00a0be provided. The YMCA greatly appreciates those who supported the campaign, the work we do on a daily\u00a0basis and the contribution the Y is making towards the community.\u00a0 For schedules of programming and\u00a0more information, visit www.ymcatrivalley.org or find us on Facebook!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2012, the Oneida Family YMCA engaged in a $1,100,000\u00a0Capital Campaign entitled \u201cStep Up For the Y\u201d. This campaign was created to address a number of needs in\u00a0both the Rome and Oneida branches; however the largest portion of the effort was to construct a new\u00a0addition in the Oneida branch. From the generous support of YMCA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23810,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-jdN","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/YMCA-new.jpg?fit=281%2C215&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}