Stanwood-Camano YMCA

Mission

Our mission at the YMCA of Snohomish County is to inspire, nurture, and strengthen culturally vibrant communities through youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility. 

Description

For 120 years, the YMCA of Snohomish County has faced our region's greatest challenges. Your Y is the longest sustaining nonprofit organization in Snohomish County. Through good times and tough times, the Y has continued to provide essential services that build the foundation of community.

Very few organizations, for profit or nonprofit, are able to be relevant, nimble, connected and valued for 120 years. When young men migrated to urban centers from family farms looking for work, they relied on the Y for lodging and healthy activity. When women began entering the workforce, they looked to the Y for night school training. As new immigrants have come to our communities, they turn to the Y for language education and job skills. When GIs got off their ships after WWII, young soldiers stayed at the Y until their trips home were confirmed. With the baby boom, families turned to the YMCA for child care and family programs. Over the years, the Y has invented summer camp, swim lessons, basketball, night school, English Second language classes, the USO, Youth and Government and hundreds of other important elements of the American lifestyle - the Y is woven into the fabric of Snohomish County and our nation.