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Yeah. Hi, welcome to this presentation on the Y.

M. C.

A. Which is a social welfare organization.

Um We're gonna be talking about what it is why.

It's interesting the ethics and an interface with social policy

in history.

So what is Y.

M. C.

A. Um Y.

M. C.

A. Also known as the why in recent years as

a youth based organization that seeks to create opportunities for

young people through empowerment, improving well being an inspiring action.

Um Previously it was primarily young white men that participated

in the YMCA when it was first established in the

18 hundreds.

But um as it has developed, it has become primarily

youth based organization, but it does still provide resources for

everybody in the community.

So what do they do?

Um the resources that they offer our youth development in

the form of childcare, education and leadership, swim sports and

play. They also offer health and fitness opportunities as well

as they have a social responsibility to support young people

and newcomers, whether that be into the town, into the

state into the country.

Um and they support diverse communities.

Um So what is their mission?

The Y.

M. C.

A. Is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to put

christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy mind,

spirit and body for all.

Um They are dedicated to giving people of all walks

of life, the opportunity to reach their full potential.

Mhm. Right.

And then some history on it.

So the early history um the why was originally created

in 1844, but the original idea about it came up

in the 1730s during the Protestant Reformation as a social

organization seeking to support the members of the church specifically

focusing on the support of children's and teens.

And later years There were 12 charter members of the

London Association, which was the first association that they established

stating that the purpose of the organization was to influence

young men to spread the redeemers kingdom amongst those by

whom they are surrounded.

Um as discussed a little bit before, this is a

religious organization.

So that is what the basis of This organization is.

By 1855 it became a worldwide organization and by 1894

there were over 5000 associations in 24 countries.

So in the U.

S. Um, the Y.

M. C.

A. Was established around 18 51 as the influx influx

of immigrants continued to flood the states.

Um the first location was in the U.

S. Um that was in the U.

S. Was boston.

And the american movement of the Y.

M. C.

A. Shifted to be more of a community welfare welfare

organization rather than just to spread Christianity by 1860 there

was said to be 205 locations with over 25,000 members

just in the us.

Okay. Yeah.

All right.

So why is it interesting?

Um, working with youth for me has always been a

main interest and the why is something that I know

that I often hear about um when it comes to

specifically after school programs, I was never part of a

program specifically, but I do know people who were and

had parents who were so grateful that their Children had

a place to go while they finished work or ran

errands or anything like that.

Um It offered them many connections and they often had

summer camps that my friends would go to every year.

I wasn't sure how widespread it was or what all

the organization actually actually does.

So I saw out more information about it.

Mhm. All right.

So the ethics, the ethics focus um that N.

A. S.

W. Code of Ethics provides the basis for utilizing ethics

to guide professional behavior.

The standard standards are based upon six core values, service

social justice, dignity and worth of person importance of human

relationships, integrity and competence.

When it comes to social organizations, the code of ethics

applies to determine if an organization is socially just or

if a dilemma has occurred.

Um Erica dilemma that has occurred, has any ethical implications.

So the Y.

M. C.

A. In relation to ethics um I kind of went

in and evaluated the Y.

M. C.

A. Based on these um six standards.

So for service the Y.

Seeks to enhance physical, mental, emotional and interpersonal well being

as well as providing recreational and other services Um for

social justice.

In the past, the services were only offered to white

men and now that it's the 21st century and the

mission has changed, its offered to a much wider population

for dignity and worth of person.

Um It does seek to help a person be the

best version of themselves that's physically mentally, emotionally spiritually.

Even the importance of human relationships.

Um The why encourages interactions between members through recreational activities

and through their other services for integrity.

It's based on religious practices that focus on morality and

building oneself.

And for competence.

Having been an organization since the mid 1800s, they have

developed resources and methods to best help others.

Um they also have people who work for the why

they have to be trained and are paid to work

for them.

Um So they have to have that competency as well.

All right.

So in my opinion is the y socially just based

on the N.

A. S.

W. Code of ethics, the wise objectively ethical um For

being a religious based social organization, the organization does meet

the six core values, but when it comes to specific

instances, there would likely be an evaluation of the situation

based on the code of ethics.

So, the interface with social policy and history.

So social policy, a major social policy that could have

affected the why would have been any policy surrounding race

and gender having been established in a period of time

where the people who had rights were white men having

to adapt Uh and adjust their thought process and recognize

their discrimination.

They would have to, it would likely be a very

big change for them.

Um it did take them around 50 years to desegregate

their organization in the 1930s.

But this was before the initial civil rights movement.

The Y is an organization that has shown massive growth

not only in its size but in its social change

relevant to the time for its social history.

The Y was one of the first community-based programs in

the us providing opportunities for young men to develop themselves

and gain leadership experience.

The why was created before social work classes were even

offered in 1898, but both had similar goals in creating

better and equitable opportunities for people.

Um Jane Adams was one of the first to develop

social services that focused on the support of Children through

education. Nurseries and Children's clubs, and that's in relation to

social work history.

In 1931 the UAE called for the desegregation of Y

M C A S across the country.

Um and in 1955 the N A S W was

first established and in 1959 the N.

S A W participated in the civil rights movement.

There is no specific date of one social workers began

working with the Y.

However, their goals have seemingly been aligned since the initial

start of both, and the goal of both has consistently

been aligned to assist the community and its members through

whatever means available and adjusting to social change as the

world adapts.

Yeah, and then here are some of the resources that

I use, and thank you so much for watching.

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