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Woodbridge YMCA Selected as Regional Training Site for National YMCA/USA Staff Certification |
WHEN: Friday, April 29, 12:00 p.m. noon
WHERE: Upper Lobby/ Woodbridge Community Center, 600 Main St., Woodbridge
WHO: -- Mayor Frank G. Pelzman
-- Lisa Drouin, YMCA/USA Leadership Consultant
-- Bill Lovett, Metuchen-Edison-Woodbridge YMCA C.E.O.
-- Sherrill Rudy, Woodbridge YMCA Director
-- 10 members of New Jersey YMCA Committee
-- 12 YMCA professional directors taking part in the first scheduled training event weekend April 28-29, 2005
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WOODBRIDGE – The Woodbridge YMCA has been selected to serve as a Regional Staff Training-Certification Site by the national YMCA/USA, Mayor Frank G. Pelzman has announced.
The formal announcement is set for noon, Friday, April 29 at the Woodbridge Community Center, 600 Main Street .
“This is a tremendous honor for the facility, the YMCA and the Township,” says Mayor Pelzman. “The YMCA has long been a vital component of our community’s recreational programming.”
Beginning this month, YMCAs throughout New Jersey and the mid-Atlantic region will send their staff to Woodbridge to take part in workshops that develop advanced leadership and management skills. “This advanced training is a way for staff to share creative program ideas and successes,” says Woodbridge YMCA Director Sherrill L. Rudy. “An important part of the YMCA philosophy is derived from the collaboration rising out of workshops like this.”
The Woodbridge Branch YMCA is itself a collaboration established in 1996 between the Metuchen-Edison-Woodbridge YMCA and the Township of Woodbridge. With over 600 part and full time staff members and some 1,000 volunteers, the Metuchen-Edison-Woodbridge YMCA provides service to the Metuchen, Edison, Woodbridge, Piscataway and Perth Amboy communities.
In addition to its wide range of physical fitness and cultural programs, the Metuchen-Edison-Woodbridge YMCA is largest provider of child care services in Middlesex County with 14 child care centers, 11 summer day camps and four outdoor community pools.
Nationally, YMCA/USA is the largest not-for-profit community service organization in America, with more than 2,500 YMCAs serving 10,000 communities.
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