Dear Friends of the Y,
Serving as Director of the Wyckoff Family YMCA for the past 25 years, I have always appreciated how fortunate our community is to have the Wyckoff Family YMCA right in our backyard. Nothing has brought this to light more than the completion of our $18 million complex in 2005.
The new facility affords the Y opportunity to offer classes, programs and services for people from 2 months to 90 years. It offers child care, kid’s programs, after-school care, and summer day camp. There’s an array of fitness and wellness programs, a huge aquatics center, customized physical therapy sessions, performing arts classes, and the Shining Star program for the specially challenged. The Y is also an active social service agency, involved with dozens of charities, outreaches, educational and civic organizations.
Our facility includes a double gymnasium, two swimming pools, a state-of-the-art child care center, expanded fitness center, and area dedicated to serve our special needs population, including adults with autism. The Y’s Carl Pfeifer Performing Arts Stage has opened the doors for outstanding social and cultural events hosting concerts by the Philharmonic Orchestra of New Jersey and Little Feat; children’s performances, holiday celebrations, and dance recitals by the Y’s Performing Arts School.
The Y’s gymnasium is now bustling with activities 17 hours a day, including basketball clinics and leagues, volleyball, gymnastics, an array of fitness activities for members of all ages.
These enhanced features will make the Wyckoff Family YMCA one of the largest and fastest growing Y’s in the state of New Jersey, serving thousands of children, teens, adults, and seniors with services specially created to address the unique needs of our community. In addition to all this, the Y distributes over $250,000 in scholarships to aid families each year!
At the Y, acquaintances become neighbors, neighbors become friends, and friends become “family.” There’s no other place like it in Bergen County.
Sincerely,
Joyce K. Vottero
Executive Director
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