Delivering community-specific programs and services designed to enhance and
empower lives has been the mission of the Kamloops Community YMCA-YWCA for
nearly four decades.
Our story is about people from every background working together to make a
positive difference in the quality of life for themselves and others. Their
unselfish commitment to the health and well-being of the community they share
has had a tremendous impact with far-reaching benefits.
We trace our roots back to the early sixties, when a small group of concerned
women met together in the basement of a boy’s club to form a Y neighborhood
group. Familiar with the work of the Y they began to organize programs and
services eventually leading to the chartering of the YWCA of Kamloops in
1965.
Ten years later, the focus and the scope of programs and services were
broadened when members voted to join the YMCA movement and the Kamloops
Community YMCA-YWCA was formed.
In the near thirty years since then, our Y has built a proud legacy of
uninterrupted community service sparing no effort to keep pace with changes that
have come with time. The same spirit of commitment and dedication upon which our
association was founded still fuels our determination to build toward a
healthier tomorrow.
We look back with pride at all that has been accomplished since our humble
start and it inspires us to look forward with a renewed sense of commitment to
what we must yet achieve.