Youth Outreach
The Two Rivers YMCA provides programs to area youth that enhance their character, leadership and social skills. Children who are at risk of making poor life choices, or who would benefit from additional mentoring and positive role models are given the chance to develop their skills through our outreach programs. YMCA programming is taken into the schools and communities where they're needed most.
Club 2040 (A Middle School Teen Night Program)
Looking for a party on Friday nights? Call your friends and meet at the YMCA for fun, food, DJ and dancing, swimming, sports, game room, movies, video games, tournaments – too much to list! Every Friday night is a party at the YMCA mid-October through mid-April!
Y-Winners Program
Y-Winners are young adults in fifth and sixth grades, who have the potential to be productive leaders through involvement in the Y-Winners program.
Y-Winners will:
- Develop your leadership skills.
- Provide you with positive role models to help you set career and life-long goals.
- Increase your self-esteem and build self-confidence.
- Bring you out of your neighborhood and give you the opportunity to expand your life experiences.
- Teach the YMCA Character Development traits:
Y-Winners Involves:
Community leaders volunteering their time to serve you as positive role models. They do this by sharing what they have done to overcome obstacles in their lives. These community leaders are involved because they feel you are a potential leader. Their objective is to identify job and career interests to help you set your goals.
Y-Winners also attempts to counteract the peer pressure you may be experiencing at this point in your life. Problems you may be facing such as drugs, gangs, teenage pregnancy, and poverty will be addressed through open discussion. Y-Winners gives you the opportunity to challenge yourself, set goals for yourself, and work toward a positive future.
What is a Leader:
Some leaders you may come into contact with are your teachers, principals, counselors, and community members. Other leaders you may know are the President of the United States, the Governor of Illinois, and the Moline City Mayor. These leaders have been selected because they have the skills to reach down deep inside people and bring out the best in them. You have been selected because you have shown the potential to do the same.
A leader has the ability to deal with hardship and adversity by developing a plan to overcome any problem that faces them. No mountain is too high, no ocean is too deep, and the sky is the limit for a leader.
Who is a Y-Winner?
Teachers, principals, and counselors in your neighborhood have referred you to the Y-Winners program. You have been chosen because you show the potential to become a leader. You have the opportunity to further develop the leadership skills you have shown in your school, community and home with the Y-Winners.
Y-Winner Expectations:
Since you have been selected to a special group there are certain expectations you must live up to in order to remain in Y-Winners. How you behave in and out of the Y-Winner program reflects on the Two Rivers YMCA and the Y-Winner program. Below are a few ways that will help you learn how to act like a Y-Winner.
- A Y-Winner cares about others feelings.
- A Y-Winner is honest and always tells the truth.
- A Y-Winner respects "authority."
- A Y-Winner is responsible for themselves.
- A Y-Winner never tells another person to "shut up."
- A Y-Winner does their homework.
- A Y-Winner does not get detentions.
- A Y-Winner is courteous and has good table manners.
- A Y-Winner does not curse or use swear words.
- A Y-Winner says "please" and "thank you."
- A Y-Winner has a firm handshake and can introduce him/herself with confidence.
- A Y-Winner does not put others down.