Down East Family YMCA Early Learning & Fitness Centers

🎉 We’re turning 65 — and you’re invited to celebrate with us!

Join us for DEFY’s Summer Finale & 65th Birthday Bash on Sunday, September 13, for an afternoon of incredible food, drinks, friends, and fun by the water.

Come celebrate 65 years of strengthening our Downeast communities while helping us continue that work for generations to come.

Check out the details and grab your tickets here! 👇

DEFY’s Summer Finale & 65th Birthday Bash! - DOWN EAST FAMILY YMCA Summer may be winding down, but we’re going out in style! Join us for DEFY’s Summer Finale & 65th Birthday Bash as we celebrate 65 years of the Down East Family YMCA[...]

As another incredible summer of YMCA camp comes to a close, we want to give a huge THANK YOU to our amazing camp counselors!

This summer, we served more than 300 campers between Camp Discovery, Blue Hill Y Camp at GSA, and Young Bucks Camp in Bucksport.

From field trips and canoeing to archery, arts & crafts, games, swimming, and countless adventures, our campers spent the summer trying new things, building friendships, gaining confidence, and making memories that will last a lifetime.

None of it happens without our counselors. We are so thankful for their dedication, patience, energy, creativity, and fun-loving spirit. They welcomed kids from all backgrounds and helped create places where every camper could feel like they belonged.

Behind every great camp photo is a counselor who helped make that moment happen. Thank you to this incredible crew for giving our kids a summer to remember — and for making our communities a little stronger along the way.

What a summer!

Blue Hill YMCA A Branch of The Down East Family YMCA Bucksport YMCA Down East Family YMCA Early Learning & Fitness Centers

Hey looking to help buffer the time from when your pre-k kid gets out of school and when you get out of work? Come check out our wrap care from 5-6 after you check out open house at EEMS!

Today is one of our favorite days at the end of camp and that is Paint the Counselors Day! All the kids do this together and they have so much fun, it starts innocent with some small spots here and there and by the end there is more paint then person 😂 then the kids all line up to watch the counselors jump in and it was a cold jump today.

Some camp Discovery fun lately! Swimming, boating (older kids helping littles 😊), frog catching and so many laughs

Our Summer Athletic Conditioning Program wrapped up a great session with one final challenge—a steep hike up Bald Mountain!

These athletes put in the work all summer and saw great improvements across the board in strength, speed, agility, and flexibility. It was great to see their hard work and progress throughout the program—and an even better way to finish the summer together.

Great job, athletes, and a big thank you to Coach Maks for pushing them all summer!

We’re grateful to Freedom Roofing for including the Down East Family YMCA in their Roofs for a Cause campaign!

When you schedule a new roof with Freedom Roofing, you can choose DEFY as the nonprofit you’d like them to support. Their goal is to donate $2,500 to each of four Maine nonprofits—$10,000 back into our communities!

If a new roof is in your future, be sure to mention Roofs for a Cause and choose the Down East Family YMCA. Thank you, Freedom Roofing, for supporting local organizations and the communities we serve!

Freedom Roofing is incredibly honored to support our community. We are proud to launch our 'Roofs for a Cause' campaign. When you schedule your quality roof with our roofing specialists, we will make a donation to one of four awesome Maine nonprofits. It's that easy. You call the best, we'll do the rest 💪

Our goal is $2,500 per nonprofit for a $10,000 contribution. Together, as a team, we will make a big impact within our community while providing you a guaranteed finished product 🔥

*please mention this campaign when you schedule your roof with our roofing specialists and choose which nonprofit you wish to support 🇺🇸

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