YMCA 2025 Healthy Kids Day: A Day of Play for LA

Through our three integrated areas of impact – Healthy Living, Youth Development, Social Impact – the LA Y serves as the Center for Community Well-Being, dedicated to nurturing the full potential of individuals and communities across Los Angeles. On Sunday, April 13, 2025, join thousands of community members from the LA region in celebration of the 33rd Annual Healthy Kids Day®! As the Y’s largest national initiative, Healthy Kids Day® is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of kids and families. For over 30 years, the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles has hosted free community Healthy Kids Day events designed to inspire children and families to stay active—both mentally and physically—throughout the summer and beyond. This year, we continue that tradition by showcasing how the Y helps build healthy, resilient kids through programs, services, advocacy, partnerships, social-emotional learning, and more.

In 2022, we united all 28 YMCA centers and 210 YMCA program sites to host our first centralized Healthy Kids Day® at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum—an effort we continued in 2023 and 2024, bringing thousands of families from the LA region and dozens of partners together to uplift and elevate the community. In 2025, we are excited to return to the LA Memorial Coliseum for another Day of PLAY for LA! Healthy Kids Day® is a free event, open to all!

The YMCA is the nation’s leading nonprofit committed to strengthening communities through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. That’s because a strong community can only be achieved when we invest in our kids, our health and our neighbors. That's why we focus our work in three areas:

· Healthy Living: Membership and programs welcome all, encourage family engagement, promote positive lifestyles, and lead to meaningful relationships. Emphasis is placed on the unique elements of local service areas. Social-emotional well-being initiative is a priority, individually and collectively as a society.

· Youth Development: Cradle-to-community well-being initiative expands youth, teen, and young adult programming and engagement to develop the next generation of leaders.

· Social Impact: Advocate and convene to lead meaningful change for the better, in LA’s collective communities. Improve the lives of Y people, Y communities, and the LA region as a whole. Measurably improve equity and inclusion for people of all ages and backgrounds. Lead opportunities unique to the needs of local communities. Promote good values and strong character in every program and every location.

Learn more about the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles here: https://www.ymcala.org/our-impact

Info: It would not be A Day of Play for LA without our amazing sports teams. Come and play with your favorite Los Angeles sports dynasties, while being active and having fun too. LA Clippers, LA Kings, LA Galaxy, LA Sparks, LA Rams, Angel City Football Club and so many more of your favorite teams will be at Healthy Kids Day!

Info: We have an area just for teens and young adults. Make magazine, have fun in our gaga pit, visit the chill zoon with yoga mats and lawn chairs, engage in our mindfulness stations, play a game of spike ball, rock out to teen bands and more! We have tons of inflatable games to enjoy!

Info: From fun music to the battle of bands, join us on the main stage for tons of fun. We have music, live bands, interactive dance demonstrations, break dancing, family fitness, raffle prize (take home a bike) and so much more.

Info: Meet us in the middle of the Torch and climb our 30 foot rock wall (height and weight restrictions). Conquer your fears and climb to the top.

Info: Have kids 0-5 years-old? We have activities for the entire family. Join us in our Early Learners/Preschool zone for fun activities, play stations and more. We even have a mini-rock climbing wall that our little ones can learn to master.

Info: We have tons of activities for 5-12 year-olds and their families, including Paint the Truck (thank you, Galpin Motors), STEM activities, LEGO challenges, Giant Board Games and so much more! We have over 20 inflatable activities that every child (and adult) will love.

Info: Learn about YMCA Sleepaway camps! The overnight resident camps that you grew up attending have only gotten better. Come and experience a preview of YMCA Sleepaway camp. Fall back in love with camp as you stroll down memory lane, while exposing your own children to the magic of sleepaway camp with the YMCA!

Info: Meet our Aquatics Team! Engage in fun "pool side" activities while taking some pics on our lifeguard stand with Stewie the YMCA Duck! Learn about YMCA aquatics programs, including swim lessons, swim teams, junior lifeguards and even careers with the YMCA as a swim instructor or lifeguard (hiring age starting at 16 years-old)

Info: Come prepared to get moving by engaging with our fitness and health partners. Love to dance? Love to move? Love to stay active? You have found your place at HKD!

Info: Meet health partners like UCLA Health, Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield California, Promise Health Play, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and Vision to Learn, amongst so many others. Some health partners will be offering free complimentary screenings, vaccinations and exams for kids.

Info: Come and connect with community resources and services from all over LA County.

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