As part of the new Armed Services YMCA & Department of Defense (DoD) Outreach Initiative, LaPorte Family YMCA will provide military families with access to community YMCA’s nationwide.  Membership fees will be paid for by the DoD.  YMCA of the USA will make the initiative possible at participating YMCA’s (2686 currently).

The ASYMCA-DoD Outreach Initiative responds to a provision in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2008, which requires the Secretary of Defense to develop a plan to support military family readiness and to ensure that military family readiness programs and activities are available to all military families, including those of the National Guard and Military Reservists. 

Eligible military families participating in the initiative are eligible for YMCA memberships based on participation requirements.  Thos eligible to participate include:

• All interested families of joint deployed National Guard and Reserves of all military branches:
• Families living in newly established Joint Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) bases;
• Active Duty Independent Duty station personnel and their families; and
• Relocated spouses and family members of deployed Active Duty personnel.

More information about the ASYMCA-DoD Outreach Initiative can be found by visiting www.asymca.org.  For more information about participating YMCA’s, please visit www.ymca.net.