YMCA Center for Healthy Living Programs
The Harrisburg Area YMCA’s new YMCA Center for Healthy Living offers a variety of programs and services to impact the health and well-being of our Harrisburg Area community members. Throughout the year, we are currently providing our National Diabetes Prevention Program which helps serve adults who are at risk for Type 2 Diabetes or have been diagnosed with Pre-Diabetes, as well as our Tobacco Cessation and LIVESTRONG® at the YMCA programs, serving cancer survivors.
The YMCA Center for Healthy Living programs are expanding in order to help serve our community. With healthy living as a core focus of everything we do, it is our goal to provide you with programs that offer results, but also help you feel welcome, safe, and encouraged throughout the course of the program.
Here For You
Our trainers and instructors are certified and offer excellent support and advice for your health journey. We understand that everyone comes from a unique background and has their own story to tell. Whether you are trying to quit smoking or seeking to reclaim your health after cancer treatments, we have programs that help strengthen, support, and champion your health goals.
Get inspired with our YMCA Center for Healthy Living Programs at the Harrisburg Area YMCA. Currently, our programs are offered in a group class setting, so you can make connections with others and ultimately create lasting friendships. Our goal is to provide community support so you don’t feel that you’re going through your journey alone.
What Do You Need Help With?
Evidence-Based Health Interventions
Explore our website to find out what programs are available from our YMCA Center of Healthy Living – we offer healthy living, chronic disease prevention, and wellness programs for the community. Learn more by clicking on the program listings below:
YMCA’s Blood Pressure Self-Monitoring Program
Program Snapshot
Take action to improve heart health! Blood Pressure Self-Monitoring is one part of Y-USA’s suite of evidence-based chronic disease prevention programs.
Participants will focus on taking and recording their blood pressure at least two times per month while attending consultations and monthly nutrition education seminars.
Chronic Disease Self-Management Program
Program Snapshot
Chronic Disease Self-Management is intended for adults and older adults with one or more chronic condition. Funded in part by Pennsylvania Department of Aging. Are you or a loved one suffering from a chronic disease? Come and meet others in our supportive group setting.
YMCA’s Diabetes Prevention Program
Program Snapshot
The YMCA’s Diabetes Prevention Program utilizes PreventT2, a proven program to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes. The PreventT2 lifestyle change program can help you lose weight, become more physically active, and reduce stress.
With PreventT2, you get:
- A proven program to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes
- A CDC-approved curriculum and trained lifestyle coach
- Support from others like you as you learn new skills
Diabetes Self-Management Program
Program Snapshot
Do you have diabetes? Would you like to join us in learning about living with diabetes? Join us for the Diabetes Self-Management Program, a free program for anyone ages 60 and over. During this program we will be introducing techniques to help you manage diabetes.
Enhance®Fitness
Program Snapshot
Enhance®Fitness is a proven senior fitness and arthritis control program that helps older adults become more active, lively, and enabled for independent living.
This program is made up of three 60-minute classes per week, offering aerobic and strength training exercises that will help reduce pain, improve functioning, and elevate mood. Classes are provided at select branches.
Freedom From Smoking®
Program Snapshot
The Harrisburg Area YMCA provides Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Programs throughout the year. They help youth, adults, and families to stop smoking. The programs are funded by the PA Department of Health through the American Lung Association in Pennsylvania. Classes are offered all throughout the community and at work sites.
Healthy Steps In Motion
Program Snapshot
The Pennsylvania Department of Aging offers a falls prevention exercise program to adults 60 years of age and older. Healthy Steps In Motion (HSIM) strives to reduce the risk of falling by building body strength, increasing flexibility, and improving balance.
Healthy Weight & Your Child
Program Snapshot
Healthy Weight and Your Child creates a safe, fun, and active environment for children and families to explore proven methods of living a healthier lifestyle. Studies have shown that this program is cost efficient and effective in its primary goals of reducing sedentary behaviors and improving self-esteem among children and parents/guardians.
LIVESTRONG® at the YMCA
Program Snapshot
LIVESTRONG® at the YMCA is an evidence-based program that helps adult cancer survivors reclaim their health and well-being following a cancer diagnosis. We create a welcoming area in which survivors can improve their strength and physical fitness, lessen the harshness of therapy side effects, develop supportive relationships, and improve their quality of life. Participation requires pre-registration through the YMCA.
Rock Steady Boxing
Program Snapshot
Rock Steady Boxing improves the quality of life for people battling Parkinson’s disease through non-contact, boxing-inspired fitness training.
