Kentucky YMCA Mission
The mission of the Kentucky YMCA Youth Association is to develop engaged citizens and servant leaders, inspired to affect change in their school, community, Commonwealth, nation, and world. Through experiential learning, service, and community activism, the Kentucky YMCA Youth Association fosters critical thinking, leadership, and social responsibility in teens.
Core Values
The Kentucky YMCA Youth Association works to ensure that all of our participants uphold the 4 core values of the YMCA: Honesty, Caring, Respect, and Responsibility – both during our programs and in their everyday lives.
Our Programs
The Kentucky YMCA Youth Association serves as the home of Kentucky’s YMCA Youth and Government programs. We provide middle school and high school students across the Commonwealth and college students across the nation with opportunities for service learning, civic engagement, and personal development.
Kentucky Youth Assembly | KYA
Kentucky United Nations Assembly | KUNA
Go For It! Conference | GFI
Leadership Training Conference | LTC
Y-Corps
Youth Advocacy Leaders (YAL)
Young Kentuckians Advocacy Program
Diversity & Inclusion
The Kentucky YMCA Youth Association is an antiracist, multicultural organization. We enthusiastically welcome persons of every ability, age, background, ethnicity, faith/religion, gender expression/gender identity, income, nationality, race, sex, or sexual orientation. The Kentucky YMCA Youth Association believes that in a beautifully diverse world, we are stronger when we are inclusive and when everyone has an equitable opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive.