So. School’s Back. Sort Of.

August 7, 2020

The exhausting choices: Cobbling together childcare with family members and neighbors so you can show up for your day job (your other day job), student pods being put together in small groups, tutors and nannies being hired, trying to work from home and raise your families and school them remotely at the same time (impossible, BTW), and, hardest of all, littles fending for themselves at home alone because there simply isn’t an alternative choice. We feel you. We ARE you. Your creativity is amazing. 

Here are a few small things we can do:

Preschool: We are able to reopen our licensed childcare preschool on a very limited basis. By limited, I mean we have 5 spots open out of our tiny group of 20 maximum. Beautiful outdoor and indoor classroom. Please contact Kelsey Apkarian at kapkarian@smvymca.org if you are interested and need details. Financial scholarships are available to help you!

Wellness around the fall schedule: To help you navigate you and your children’s new schedules, would a 6:30 a.m. Tuesday/Thursday class help? Spin? BodyPump? 1 of each? Please weigh in by emailing Julie @ jcruse@smvymca.org.

Pool Reservations! The ‘reservation king’ finally updated the system so you don’t have to set your alarm for midnight anymore.  You can now book your reservation 48 hours in advance on the hour, per class offering/ lap swim time, as you’ve been requesting since day one. 

Potential Childcare: The Y is working closely with the school districts and funders to find safe and affordable spaces to provide care for the very clear and present need. We will know more over the next 2 weeks and will post that here as progress is made.

PLEASE weigh in by sending Krista Delia kdelia@smvymca.org your childcare needs, worries, solutions- whatever you think would help us support our community’s youth safely at this time. 

There’s hope! This entire community is rallying around our youth, our local businesses and you.