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Community Outreach Chaplain
Programs to enhance spiritual and mental health, strengthen families, and foster youth engagement.

Our mission is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all. The office of the Community Outreach Chaplain offers a variety of programs to support the spiritual and mental well-being of Y members, staff, and our community.

Support services are available to people of any or no faith background. Thank you to all our faith-based and community partners who help make these services possible.

 

Good Friday Breakfast

 

Tools to Build Your Faith in 2025

 

Grandparents Raising Grandkids - A support and resource group

Grandparents Raising Grandkids meets October through May on the first Thursday of the month from 10:00-11:00 am in the Capital Room on the third floor. This is a support group that will also feature periodic guest presenters with expertise or resources useful to participants. This group is open to members and non-members who are grandparents raising grandkids.

 

Register HERE

We Are Not Alone - support group for adults with loved ones experiencing mental illness

We Are Not Alone is a support group for people who love and care about family members or other loved ones who have a mental illness. We meet October through May on the third Wednesday of the month from 4:00-5:00 pm in Studio B on the second floor.

Sometimes we feel like we can't talk to others about our loved one's mental illness symptoms because they won't understand. This group understands. You are not alone, and we can support one another. This group maintains confidentiality: what is shared in the group stays in the group.

 

Register HERE

Upcoming Programs to Look Forward to...
  • GriefShare Support Group 
  • Class: Discover How You Best Connect with God/Higher Power
  • Good Friday Prayer Breakfast

 

Interfaith Peace Vlog
The Y’s Community Outreach Chaplain, Dr. Valerie Geer, and Salem Leadership Foundation’s Executive Director, Kyle Dickinson, are teaming up to bring you a monthly vlog series focused on the concept of peace. Each month’s vlog is an interview with a different local religious leader on what peace means to practitioners of their religion.