When your boss (and a co-worker) buys you flowers on your last day, you can't help but feel #appreciated . Thank you, Pocono Family #YMCA for the opportunities and support you've given me over the past 3+ years. #BeCauseY #pfymca #grateful #biggerandbetterthings (at Pocono Family YMCA) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEfJh7qAmvT/?igshid=1rj7p643dnvqe

The YMCA is not just a place with four walls that houses treadmills and pools. It’s a place where strangers become family, where new goals are met and where we belong to something bigger than a building. We are a place where our foundation is Christian principles and He leads each of us on our journeys to new goals of life. Today, this amazing group of people joined us for a Zoom group exercise class from their homes as individuals but left that class at one Y family. We are the YMCA whether we are at the building or at our home. We will be together again lifting each other up with high fives, fist bumps and hugs but until that day we will still come together as a group and cheer each other on. I ❤️ you all and can’t wait to see you tomorrow morning to lift each other up and celebrate together! If you look closely, everyone is doing the YMCA. #YFamily #TeamCincyY #BeCauseY #BetterTogether #StrongerTogether #ThisIsY #MyY #StayActiveStayHealthy (at YMCA of Greater Cincinnati) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_ncw30BcR37Uv5zZUl7EeXH55-Gi3R7C9nSzI0/?igshid=totna4euhw82

Wrapping up Mental Health Awareness Month I’m extremely humbled and proud to start this project. Working with partners from all over the country we’re looking to create a Mental Health Initiative. Starting small by incorporating Suicide Prevention into our Staff and Volunteer on boarding process just as we would do with CPR and First aid courses. Big picture, develop, staff, and implement a Mental Health program in our community out reach departments to work with schools, colleges, hospitals, and churches to offer counseling services, classes, programs, and various other programs all volunteer led in order to minimize as many of these tragedies as we can. Posting this for two reasons: 1. To raise awareness that we see, acknowledge, and plan to rectify the epidemic facing our communities And 2. Hold myself accountable: by putting this out there it’s not just a thought or goal on a whiteboard. It’s out there and time to turn conversations behind closed doors into conversations in public and more so; conversations into actions. Thank you to my #principlesandpractices family for working together to share this story and this idea. I recognize it won’t happen over night but hopefully a year from now we will start to see a difference. #becausey #forabetterus #mentalhealthawareness (at Charlotte, North Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Dw5u_gXxL/?igshid=oe77sghe16jr

#Repost @ipyleaders (@get_repost) ・・・ Come out to our FAMILY GAME NIGHT this Saturday at the @irvingpark_ymca! Games, crafts, bounce house, Easter egg hunt... what more could you ask for? @ymcachicago #becausey #ipyleaders #youthleadership #ymca175 https://www.instagram.com/p/BwGFufrFqDyAeKcxjNLRlirJugc4XA4ZLYDOPo0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1s7yc6ne1t8mm

BOOK TAT, BOOK TAT yeah that’s me! I read to the kids almost on a daily.😁📚 Read to the little ones here @decaturillinoisymca for National Read Across America Day. #ReadAcrossAmerica #YouthDevelopment #BecauseY (at Decatur Family YMCA) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bue_ophA90r/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=s6x68n0txuf7

20 years ago (yes, I started when I was 5), little did I know that this “job” would be so much more. When I started with the Y, I didn’t know the impact it would have on me. There are so many amazing leaders that have coached and mentored me along the way, to all of you THANK YOU! You have led me down a path that has grown me from a young, immature girl to maybe a little older and wiser leader. I am excited for the future of YMCA and what we do in our communities. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.” - Mother Teresa #YMCA #BeCauseY #HealthyLiving #Leader #MakeImpact #CreateRipples (at YMCA of Greater Cincinnati) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrdnweplzQP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=11kd1hsfmhdfh

It’s #LivingOurCause week at the @ymca! @cincinnatiymca had an amazing group of Cause Driven Leaders for Alison and I to coach today! #BeCauseY #leadership #YMCA @livingourcause (at R.C. Durr YMCA) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrVzjzfF-Yghi9HCz5dci3HZBOlSSVPY4JCkCw0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1srp3plwww61s