Spiritual & Mental Wellness

Community Outreach Chaplain
Programs to enhance spiritual and mental health, strengthen families, and foster youth engagement.

Our mission is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all. The office of the Community Outreach Chaplain offers a variety of programs to support the spiritual and mental well-being of Y members, staff, and our community.

Support services are available to people of any or no faith background. Thank you to all our faith-based and community partners who help make these services possible.

QPR Suicide Prevention Training

This training is for ANYONE who wants to learn how to recognize the signs of suicide and learn how to intervene in an appropriate way. Just like any of us can learn CPR to recognize and respond to a medical crisis until professional help arrives, we also can learn QPR to recognize and respond to a mental health crisis until professional help is secured. Come and learn how to Question-Persuade-Refer when someone is thinking of suicide.

Thursday, January 8 - 6:30-8:30PM

Prayer Collage Workshop

Reflect, reconnect with God, and express your heart through the artform of prayer collage. A prayer collage workshop offers a gentle, hands-on way to explore the landscape of the heart by turning prayers, hopes, and questions into visual form. All materials are provided. Come join us, letting intuition guide the slow, meditative work of cutting and arranging. The emphasis isn't on creating a perfect piece of art but on opening space for self-reflection, emotional processing, and spiritual listening.

Saturday, January 24 10-11:30AM

Healing Your Relationship with Yourself: A 4-Part Workshop Series

Have you ever noticed yourself reacting in ways that feel bigger than the moment? Or struggling to set boundaries, calm your nervous system, or speak kindly to yourself?

Reparenting is a gentle, practical approach to healing your relationship with yourself. In this 4 week experiential series, you?ll explore how past experiences shape your emotions, self talk, and relationships.

This series will help you:
-Better understand your emotional reactions
-Feel more equipped in relationship
-Recognize and transform triggers
-Identify your needs to advocate for yourself in your daily life

Learn how to care for yourself in new, supportive ways and approach yourself with compassion. Practice emotional awareness, boundaries, nervous system regulation, and sustainable self-care in a safe, supportive group setting.

The instructors for this series are Meg Judge, Personal Coach, from Good Gracious Coaching, and Kim Holman, LMT & Certified Integrative Manual Therapist, from 8 Hands Healing.

Thursdays in February 5:30-7:30PM

Grandparents Raising Grandkids - A support and resource group

Grandparents Raising Grandkids meets October through May on the first Thursday of the month from 10:00-11:00 am in the Capital Room on the third floor. This is a support group that will also feature periodic guest presenters with expertise or resources useful to participants. This group is open to members and non-members who are grandparents raising grandkids.

We Are Not Alone - support group for adults with loved ones experiencing mental illness

We Are Not Alone is a support group for people who love and care about family members or other loved ones who have a mental illness. We meet October through May on the third Wednesday of the month from 4:00-5:00 pm in Studio B on the second floor.

Sometimes we feel like we can't talk to others about our loved one's mental illness symptoms because they won't understand. This group understands. You are not alone, and we can support one another. This group maintains confidentiality: what is shared in the group stays in the group.