YMCA Australia in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Non-profit organisation

YMCA Australia

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9699 7655

Address: Level 1, 3 Bristol Street, Essendon Fields 3041 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.ymca.org.au

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25.01.2022 A special thank you

25.01.2022 SAFEGUARDING AWARD This award is open to staff members, volunteers, programs, teams, and services in Australia. It seeks to highlight a significant achievement in empowering children and young people to feel safe and be safe at the Y, in their families, and in their communities. Congratulations to Michael Delaney & Jessica Gaunt.... YMCA Victoria #YMCANationalAwards #theY

22.01.2022 A big congrats to Wendy Thornbury, recipient of a national Y Hero Award for 2020 for the Y in Whittlesea for her above and beyond efforts in this most challenging of years Wendy has been an integral part of Galada Kindergarten in Whittlesea for the past six years and is described by all who know her as a Y Hero on many levels who shows a huge commitment, heart, and passion in everything she does from spending her free days and weekends completing training modules to be...tter support her colleagues, to creating local partnerships which include intergenerational connections between children and seniors, and with local environmental organisations to foster the spark of environmental interest in children. She is always looking after her team with little gifts (often handmade products, creating a relaxation station in our staff kitchen, offering walks, and coffee, providing the team with motivational messages). Congratulations Wendy! What an incredible asset you are to the Y. Image: Michele Rowse CEO of the Y Whittlesea presents Wendy Thornbury with her national Y hero award. YMCA Whittlesea

22.01.2022 Last week the WhyNot team did something a little different - they interviewed a contributor . Shulah has such a beautiful energy and we wanted to share that with you She talks with us about all things diversity and inclusion, safe spaces and finding the courage to be vulnerable.... Definitely check it out and tell us what you think!

22.01.2022 VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR AWARD This award is for exceptional service, innovative practice and a commitment to the YMCA mission and belief. Congratulations to Noel Hooper!... #YMCANationalAwards YMCA Geelong Inc

22.01.2022 Y SA National Hero Award winner - COVID Vacation Care Program Congrats to the Y of South Australia’s COVID-19 Vacation Care program team recipient of a Y Australia Hero Award for 2020 for its magnificent work in keeping 22 vulnerable young people actively engaged and positively connected during the COVID-19 lockdown in SA in March. In conjunction with the Department of Human Services (DHS), the Y SA reactivated four of its managed metropolitan recreation centres to pro...vide school holiday care for at-risk young people aged 12 to 16, in direct response to an urgent need to provide a safe vacation environment while isolation measures were in place. Feedback was overwhelmingly positive with kids becoming friends, developing trust and responsibility, trying new things, and minimal gadget use. Congrats to the whole team, demonstrating the Y’s belief in action. Image: Kristin receiving the Y SA’s National Hero Award 2020 from CEO David Paterson on behalf of the Vacation Care team. YMCA SA

19.01.2022 THE POWER OF INSPIRED YOUNG PEOPLE AWARD This award seeks to highlight the impact of a YMCA young person’s journey or story of inspiration. This may include a young person’s leadership, advocacy, courage, efforts or inspiring presence within the Y. Congratulations to Martin Johnson!... YMCA WA #theY

19.01.2022 An innovative approach from the Y to create meaningful pathways for young people into caring careers being recognised. In all, the "Y" has identified 42 priority hot spots where it's proposing a fix. Already one of the largest employers of young people in Australia, the organisation wants to trial a new approach of training young workers in these sites to begin caring careers. We are willing to commit $40 million in wages and are seeking nearly $12 million from the Governme...nt for infrastructure along with access to the existing wage and apprentice subsidies. If given the green light, 1,500 young Australians would have a job in January and a pathway to a career in caring. A relatively small-scale proposal like this won't entirely solve either problem of youth unemployment or the shortage of care workers, but this does represent some creative thinking. #theY ABC Australia

19.01.2022 We’d like to let you know that we’re here. And we’re not going anywhere. Because we believe in the power of inspired young people. For more information on opportunities for young people to be connected please visit: https://bit.ly/2URZnfd... #Ywearehere #YMCA #TheY

16.01.2022 The Y Healthy Living Magazine Summer Edition is out now! Check it out : https://joom.ag/hGBC

15.01.2022 YMCA history of the Red Poppy - 102 years ago, Moina Michael, who worked for the American YMCA, read Lieutenant Colonel McCrae's poem just before the Armistice and was so moved by it that she wrote a poem in reply and decided to wear a red poppy. At a meeting of YMCA secretaries, held in November 1918, she talked about the poem and her poppies, and Anna Guérin, the French YMCA secretary, started selling poppies to raise money for widows, orphans, and needy veterans and their... families. We Shall Keep the Faith by Moina Michael, November 1918 Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields, Sleep sweet - to rise anew! We caught the torch you threw And holding high, we keep the Faith With All who died. We cherish, too, the poppy red That grows on fields where valor led; It seems to signal to the skies That blood of heroes never dies, But lends a lustre to the red Of the flower that blooms above the dead In Flanders Fields. And now the Torch and Poppy Red We wear in honor of our dead. Fear not that ye have died for naught; We'll teach the lesson that ye wrought In Flanders Fields. #remembranceday #LestWeForget

14.01.2022 I.C. HOWARD / Y SERVICE CLUBS INTERNATIONAL STAFF SCHOLARSHIP AWARD Leon Tan, an inspired young person from the Y Victoria is the recipient of this year’s prestigious IC Howard Y Service Clubs International Staff Scholarship Award of $5,000. During the extended COVID-19 lockdown in Victoria off his own bat Leon undertook to learn how to get maximum insights out of the organisation’s HR engagement business reporting system, to help the Y understand more accurately a...nd deeply how its employees were faring in one of its most difficult periods in its history. Congratulations Leon, we look forward to hearing more about what you’re able to do for the Y when you’ve completed the HR Business Analyst training course that the scholarship will fund. See more about Leon’s award, including an appearance by the founder of the award, Life Governor Ian Howard, 97. YMCA Victoria #YMCANationalAwards #theY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rft1Q88zJ_M

14.01.2022 ‘This is my fourth year in this role and every year I have the opportunity and privilege to address this great collective of Members and our young leaders. I have continually asked us to be fearless, stay inspired and to trust each other. Build trust in the fact that together we are stronger than any individual part and build trust in the fact that we have great places to go if we believe, belong and behave as a collection of Members held together by our Belief in the power ...Inspired young people. - Melinda Crole, CEO YMCA Australia #theY

14.01.2022 ‘My key message is that every dollar we spend and invest should be uncompromising in our continued quest for relevance.’ In August last year, our young National Treasurer, Tom Stephenson, wowed the closing ceremony of the Y’s 175th birthday celebrations in London, to a packed global audience. Today, he again wowed those attending our virtual National AGM, with his Treasurer’s Address. ... Watch it here. #theY

12.01.2022 During the week out Y Reimagined Labs teams showcased their innovative ideas for 127,000 current and future customers across YMCA Australia on #diversityandinclusion #sustainability, #youthemployment and #mentalwellbeing. Our 4 national, intergenerational teams spent the past 2 months in a co-design sprint led by the excellent #BusinessModelsInc team designing the #FutureY. Congratulations to everyone who made it all happen so effortlessly in one of the most stressful and ...disruptive years imaginable. #YReimagineLabs #theY

11.01.2022 NAIDOC Week 'Always was, always will be.' #naidoc2020 #naidocweek National NAIDOC

11.01.2022 Preparations for our National AGM on Saturday November 28 are underway, with filming in our new Essendon Fields offices yesterday. This year's AGM will be special as we really want to thank and acknowledge all of the great work that our staff have been doing during the unprecedented and challenging year of 2020. #theY #YMCA

11.01.2022 Our Treasurer Tom Stephenson’s AGM address yesterday.

10.01.2022 I always try to imagine what I would see if I look through the eyes of a child. Just try to imagine what children and young people saw and experienced this year See Phil Doorgarchurn’s powerful report to our Y Australia AGM yesterday. Phil is our National Safeguarding Executive Manager. ... Watch it now. #theY #SafeguardingChildren

10.01.2022 Wishing everyone a safe and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of us at the Y #theY

09.01.2022 Y WA National Hero Award winner Y WA Children’s Services Team Congratulations to the Y WA’s Childrens’ Services team recipients of a Y Australia Hero Award for 2020! When West Australia went into COVD-19 lockdown in March, the frontline childrens’ services were the only Y employees deemed as essential and unable to work from home. It was a scary time. Our Childrens’ Services team was tirelessly putting themselves in harms’ way to ensure children and families had acc...ess to care, at a time when West Australia was most vulnerable to community transmission. The entire Y WA Children Services team was amazing in how they handled the continual changes that came through from government and worked unbelievably hard to make sure families were not disrupted by the changes. Thanks to all our Childrens’ Services frontline heroes, and congratulations to the team in WA for the recognition of your team in going above and beyond as Y WA’s National Y Hero Award Recipient for 2020 a team that displayed heroic, creative, and nurturing traits in bucket loads! The Y WA Children’s Services Team pictured here with WA CEO, Ross Kyrwood. YMCA WA

04.01.2022 Thanks for sharing your story Shulah

04.01.2022 Young people are dealing with the uncertainty around unemployment and underemployment in a way that is impacting their mental health and causing great concern. See Ross Kyrwood’s full report to our National AGM yesterday. Ross is our National Advocate for Young People and Community Impact. View here.... #theY #YWeAreHere

03.01.2022 Y Australia Hero Award winner - Di McDonald Congratulations Di McDonald, Y Australia’s Hero Award winner for 2020! In a challenging year for all Y people across the world, Di, our National Brand and Communications Executive, did a massive amount of connecting and collaborating passionately, creatively and caringly, to protect and enhance the Y brand. She strove to ensure that wherever possible all Ys in Australia worked together to save money, time and to share resources.... This included helping the Y secure $500,000 of free advertising for our first national TV ad. Di is always nurturing of others, and proactively seeks ways to ensure young peoples’ voices are heard and their talents showcased. Di you’re an incredible asset to the Y Movement in Australia - and we see what you do, really value you and celebrate you. Congratulations! Image: Di is pictured receiving her award from the Y National CEO, Melinda Crole. #YMCANationalAwards #theY

03.01.2022 Are you a young inspired person living in SA? Youth Parliament could be your chance to have your voice heard on issues that are important to you through legislative debate and decision making. Apply now for our 2021 program!

01.01.2022 YMCA AUSTRALIA 2020 HERO AWARDS The Y’s 2020 Hero Awards celebrate staff members or a team from each Association who has demonstrated the Y’s brand traits - Heroic, Creative and Nurturing this year. This is a once-only award that was developed specifically for this COVID year.... Sit back, grab a cuppa, it's well worth watching! #YMCANationalAwards

01.01.2022 ‘The work that all of our Ys have done to meet the challenges of COVID-19 has been outstanding...we have also seen great acts of courage, commitment, adaptation, kindness, resilience and a strong resolve to be part of the solution to ensure people are safe and that the Ys recovers from the COVID-19 global pandemic. The Y in Australia’s AGM was held today, virtually. Here’s our President’s address, with 2020 highlights, recognising and thanking Boards, CEOs, staff and volu...nteers for their great collective achievement over 2020. Please note we will have news tomorrow about a new National President for the Y! #theY