The Family  YMCA exists to serve the needs of its communities, but we couldn't address these needs without collaborators in Los Alamos and Española. Using the following links, you may read more about the YMCA's impact on personal lives and in our communites. Some recent major partnerships are detailed below.   
 

    In 2009 and 2010, the state ofNew Mexico's Youth Conservation Corps awarded The Family YMCA significant grants ($121K and $149K) to employ 18 youth from Los Alamos and Española to improve fireline trails, address wildfire erosion problems, create new trails and build friendships among these neighboring youth.

    A separate grant from the Delle Foundation funded the Y's Earth Service Corps (YES Corps) volunteer summer long service-learning program for youth ages 11 to 16. We partner with Los Alamos County to address community trail issues. The works of these combined youth groups are detailed here.

    Please see the Española Teen Center's page for information on major Center supporters.

"This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others." - Elie Wiesel