Site Evaluation
Introduction: The facility that I went to for the site evaluation was Baxter YMCA. It is located in Greenwood, Indiana right off of highway 31 on Shelby Street. The hours of operation for the Baxter YMCA are different for each of the areas in the building. For the entire center, the hours are as follows: M-F 5am-10pm, Sat 7am-7pm, Sun 11am-6pm. The child watch hours are M-F 8am-2pm, 4pm-8pm, Sat 8am-1pm. For the service desks, the hours are M-F 8am-8pm, Sat 8am-4pm, Sun 12pm-4pm. All of the YMCAs have a broad target market. They offer activities and programs for every age, so their target audience is anyone from babies, toddlers youth, adults, and even the elderly. The mission statement is “To put Christian principles into …show more content…
Many of these are offered for the youth, but there are also many opportunities for adults to participate in certain activities. The list is very extensive, but it covers just about everything. For sports the adult leagues are pickleball and taekwondo, and the youth leagues are football, soccer, baseball, basketball, flag football, gymnastics, ad taekwando. There are also youth sports clinics that are offered, and those are basketball, soccer, baseball, and flag football. Although not required, these clinics are for the children to learn the basics and foundations of the sport to be more prepared for the leagues. Educational wise for the youth, they offer preschool, youth government, safesitter, leader’s club, and service trips. A program called L.I.F.E is another educational program specific to the Baxter YMCA that teaches high school aged youth important skills needed in every day life. The topics covered are how to file taxes, how to tip servers, researching jobs, creating a budget, researching scholarships, and others. Some more of their specific programs offered are Synergy, which is a monthly personal challenge with fitness evaluations every month, LIVESTRONG, which helps cancer survivors push through recovery by strengthening the body, Mini-Movers, which is a gross motor movement class for 1-2 year olds, and Kid’s Night Out, which is where youth and teens spend a late afternoon at the Y doing crafts, playing games, eating pizza, and watching a movie. The Baxter YMCA also offers summer, spring break, and Thanksgiving break camps, swim lessons, water fitness, wellness and personal training, before & after school, yoga, Pilates, spinning, and
Introduction: The facility that I went to for the site evaluation was Baxter YMCA. It is located in Greenwood, Indiana right off of highway 31 on Shelby Street. The hours of operation for the Baxter YMCA are different for each of the areas in the building. For the entire center, the hours are as follows: M-F 5am-10pm, Sat 7am-7pm, Sun 11am-6pm. The child watch hours are M-F 8am-2pm, 4pm-8pm, Sat 8am-1pm. For the service desks, the hours are M-F 8am-8pm, Sat 8am-4pm, Sun 12pm-4pm. All of the YMCAs have a broad target market. They offer activities and programs for every age, so their target audience is anyone from babies, toddlers youth, adults, and even the elderly. The mission statement is “To put Christian principles into …show more content…
Many of these are offered for the youth, but there are also many opportunities for adults to participate in certain activities. The list is very extensive, but it covers just about everything. For sports the adult leagues are pickleball and taekwondo, and the youth leagues are football, soccer, baseball, basketball, flag football, gymnastics, ad taekwando. There are also youth sports clinics that are offered, and those are basketball, soccer, baseball, and flag football. Although not required, these clinics are for the children to learn the basics and foundations of the sport to be more prepared for the leagues. Educational wise for the youth, they offer preschool, youth government, safesitter, leader’s club, and service trips. A program called L.I.F.E is another educational program specific to the Baxter YMCA that teaches high school aged youth important skills needed in every day life. The topics covered are how to file taxes, how to tip servers, researching jobs, creating a budget, researching scholarships, and others. Some more of their specific programs offered are Synergy, which is a monthly personal challenge with fitness evaluations every month, LIVESTRONG, which helps cancer survivors push through recovery by strengthening the body, Mini-Movers, which is a gross motor movement class for 1-2 year olds, and Kid’s Night Out, which is where youth and teens spend a late afternoon at the Y doing crafts, playing games, eating pizza, and watching a movie. The Baxter YMCA also offers summer, spring break, and Thanksgiving break camps, swim lessons, water fitness, wellness and personal training, before & after school, yoga, Pilates, spinning, and