YMCA Mission - To put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all persons in a positive, healthy, Christian environment through quality leadership programs, services and facilities.

YMCA Corporate Memberships

''Health Enhancement For America's Work Force''

Benefits to Corporations:

Corporations encourage their employees to maintain healthy lifestyles, because doing so may reduce health care costs and improve morale.

With the development of body, mind, and spirit for all persons as its stated mission, the YMCA can directly meet the health and fitness needs and interests of America's work force. The YMCA services summarized are uniquely suited to promote health enhancement for workers.

The Illinois Valley YMCA has taken a commitment to working with area companies on improving and maintaining healthy lifestyles. Presently, the Illinois Valley YMCA works with over 100 companies with memberships. YMCA memberships provide benefits to employees!

As Americans have become more and more interested in fitness, they have welcomed the health enhancement programs offered by their employers as additional job benefits. The YMCA can provide programs that improve employees' lives in many ways. For example:

• Increase employees' awareness of their level of fitness through fitness testing.
• Improving employees' health and fitness with exercise plans tailored to individual interests and abilities.
• Promoting better mental health.
• Adding new leisure activities that can be pursued even outside of company-sponsored classes.
• Acquainting employees with YMCA programs that may be of interest to them and their families.

Services:

• Courtesy Passes - $45 for 10 visits. Passes purchased by the corporation allow visitors to use the YMCA as a guest of your corporation. They're great for out-of-town guests or new employees!
• Great facilities.
• Body fat analysis free at your site.
• Personal trainers.
• Reduced rates for your employees.

Fitness & Wellness Programs:

• Education - Presentations, demonstrations and corporate fitness newsletters designed to increase employee awareness.
• Health Enhancement - These programs are designed to improve the participants overall health and well being. We will chart your employees progress if requested.

Retreats at the YMCA: Retreats can provide corporations with a place to meet socially, utilizing fitness and recreation as team building techniques. You may use the YMCA for friends and families during nonscheduled times.

Special Events:

• Corporate Challenges
• Corporate Weeks

Your corporation can automatically qualify for discounted rates with as few as 6 membership units. It does not cost your corporation anything. If you have enough interested people, you should make a list of names of those people who will be coming in to sign up. Each family, individual, or single parent family membership unit counts as one membership unit. If any employee has a current membership at our YMCA, they can be counted toward the total number of units needed to qualify. If you have enough units to qualify, please make a list and send or fax it to the YMCA.

Please include on this list your corporation's name, address and phone number along with a contact person's name. After we receive your list, you will receive membership application cards by mail. Your completed membership application cards and payments can be brought or sent in to the YMCA.

Send to: Illinois Valley YMCA, 300 Walnut Drive, Peru, IL, 61354 - Fax #: 223-7955

For more information contact Carmen Turigliatti, Membership Director at the YMCA
(815) 223-7904 or email Carmen at cturigliatti@comcast.net or click on email link below