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Organization: Santa Clarita Valley Family YMCA
Date: October 9, 2008
YMCA Partners with U.S. Department of Defense to Provide Free Services to Military Families
Partnership provides military families access to health and well-being programs
The Santa Clarita Valley Family YMCA will provide military families with free access to their healthy lifestyles facility under a new partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense. This initiative for military families is in conjunction with 2,686 YMCA's across the United States.
"The Santa Clarita Valley Family YMCA is happy to help meet the critical needs facing families of deployed military service members," said Jane S. Albin, Executive Director of the Santa Clarita Valley Family YMCA. "Families are the most affected when a loved one gets deployed, so we are deeply committed to providing them with the support they need."
The YMCA and Department of Defense partnership responds to a provision in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2008, which requires the Secretary of Defense to develop a plan to support military family readiness and to ensure that military family readiness programs and activities are available to all military families, including those of the National Guard and Military Reservists.
Eligible military families participating in the initiative are eligible for facility memberships at the Santa Clarita Valley Family YMCA based on participation requirements. Those eligible to participate in the new initiative include:
All interested families of joint deployed National Guard and Reserves of all military branches;
Families living in newly established Joint Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) bases;
Active Duty Independent Duty station personnel and their families; and
Relocated spouses and family members of deployed Active Duty personnel.
"The YMCA has a long history of supporting military service members and their families — since the Civil War — so it was natural for us to join this initiative," said Jane S. Albin. "During this time of conflict, it is more important than ever that we continue providing services and support to these families."
For more information about this opportunity to our military families or about the Santa Clarita Valley Family YMCA, please call (661) 253-3593.
ABOUT THE SANTA CLARITA VALLEY FAMILY YMCA: The Santa Clarita Valley Family YMCA is an association of persons of all ages, ethnic groups and religious affiliations who are united in a common effort to put Judeo-Christian principles into practice to enrich the quality of the spiritual, physical, mental and social life for our families, our community and ourselves.
