“BRLS Club Recognition”
The excitement is in the air! Leaders’ School applications are being filled out by eager Leaders ready to experience the mountain in June. Leaders and advisors have been serving their home YMCAs all year long as they prepared for our annual school.
Club recognition is the manner in which the work at the home YMCA is measured. Club recognition is an excellent way to celebrate and calculate the impact your Leaders’ Club has served and lead over the past year. The staff and Leaders of each club have already invested countless hours, sweat and tears ensuring program participants and members are positively impacted at the YMCA. Now is the time to document, share, and be recognized for the 2016-2017 year. It would be an amazing sight to have every club complete club recognition applications so we could calculate the total impact the clubs of BRLS 2017 are having throughout the movement.
Listed below are the criteria for the levels of club recognition:
Level I Criteria
1. Written club constitution consistent with the mission and purpose of Blue Ridge Leaders’ School.
2. Written proof of professional staff and/or volunteer oversight by YMCA administration.
3. Written proof of documented training sessions which address improving one’s spirit, mind and body. These shall include (as facilities permit) aquatics, fitness, sports, gymnastics and the theory of YMCA leadership and service.
4. Written proof of 75% of the club membership shall provide a minimum of 24 service hours annually.
5. Written proof of all club members shall pass a written test to attain club membership.
Level II Criteria
1. Written proof of all Level I requirements.
2. Written proof of Club operating with elected and functional officers.
3. Club membership shall review and approve the constitution annually and be documented by written minutes of the meeting.
4. Written proof of 50% of the club membership shall provide a minimum of 100 hours of YMCA volunteer service annually.
5. Written proof of Club participation in Blue Ridge Leaders’ School and one other regional Leaders Club event annually.
Level III Criteria
1. Written proof of all Level II requirements.
2. A written training calendar in which the curriculum includes aquatics, fitness, sports, gymnastics and the theory YMCA leadership and service.
3. Written proof of 75% of the club membership shall provide a minimum of 100 hours of YMCA volunteer service annually.
4. Written proof of that at least one club member participates on a standing YMCA committee or works with some type of ongoing adult group throughout the Leaders Club year.
5. Written proof of the Club participating in the local YMCA annual support campaign and/or raise contributed dollars toward a YMCA scholarship fund.
6. Written proof of the Club conducting a multi-YMCA training event at least once every two years.
The club recognition application can be found here.
I look forward to receiving a record number of club recognition applications. To honor Lombardi Time and to keep from upsetting the US Post Office of Matthews, NC on May 14th, applications will be greatly appreciated prior to the May 15th deadline.
In Spirit, Mind and Body,
Ryan Graham
ryan.graham@ymcacharlotte.org.