Family YMCA summer programs begin with safety training and camps
Summer at The Family YMCA opened with CPR and AED training at the Los Alamos Y Teen Center, plus camps at Aspen Elementary, the County Golf Course and Urban Park. Parents also faced fees of $120 or $85 for members.
Safety training opened the summer season at The Family YMCA, where staff and youth leaders spent the first days of June preparing for camps, teen programs and outdoor work across Los Alamos County. At the Los Alamos Y Teen Center, Youth Conservation Corps leaders learned CPR and AED use, a sign that the county’s summer program network is being built around more than recreation alone.
That preparation mattered for families who depend on reliable summer care in Los Alamos. Y Camp 2026 was already open for children entering grades K-6, with weekly themes, reading, science and arts projects, group games, sports, free play, two healthy snacks a day and field trips. The camp was listed at Aspen Elementary School from June 4 through July 31, giving parents a structured option that stretches through much of the summer.
The YMCA also rolled out a broader slate of Summer Sports Camps with dates and sites that spread across town. Golf ran June 1-5 at the County Golf Course. Flag football also ran June 1-5 at Urban Park. Basketball followed in two sessions, June 8-12 and June 15-19, both at the YMCA Gym. Soccer was set for June 22-26 at Urban Park, while volleyball was scheduled for late June and early July. Tennis was listed for all weeks in June at Urban Park, alongside climbing wall sessions and a court sports and climbing wall combo. Fees for the sports camps were listed at $120, or $85 for Y members.
The teen side of the YMCA’s work runs from supervision into workforce and life-skills training. The Los Alamos Teen Center is operationally funded by Los Alamos County and administered by The Family YMCA from more than 10,000 square feet in the historic Community Building in central Los Alamos. Its mission is to strengthen self-efficacy and resiliency through educational support and positive youth development, and its programming includes First Aid, CPR and AED instruction, American Red Cross babysitting training, and infant and child CPR.
That work connects to the Youth Conservation Corps, which the YMCA says partnered in 2017 with Bandelier National Monument, the Volunteer Task Force, Delle Foundation, UNM-LA and Pajarito Trail Fest for a summer jobs program for youth ages 16-24. Recent YMCA materials describe YCC jobs as full-time, 30 to 36 hours a week, Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with physically demanding trail work in heat and high elevations. For crew members hired from outside Los Alamos, the YMCA said it provides a bus pass to Los Alamos, a small but practical detail that widens access to summer work.
Taken together, the YMCA’s summer lineup showed a local system that blends childcare, sports, teen development, emergency readiness and outdoor employment. In a county where families need dependable programs as soon as school ends, that mix is the difference between a loose summer schedule and one that is already in motion.
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