YMCA SAFE FOR YOU, SAFE FOR US PROTOCOLS

1. UPDATED MEMBERSHIP AGREEMENT: Please review the New Member Agreement, it includes updates on safety. For everyone’s safety, it is important that you read and follow the guidelines before you enter to a YMCA Branch or Program Center. We deeply appreciate your help in keeping the YMCA Safe for You, Safe for Us. The Agreement must be acknowledged and agreed to in the online pre-screening before entering a YMCA Branch or Program Center.
2. SCREENING : Effective May 29th, online pre-screening prior to entering a YMCA facility or program is no longer required. Instead we ask that you complete a self-screening upon arriving by answering a quick questionnaire. In addition, we ask that you please stay home if you are feeling ill.
3. PRE-REGISTRATION: Effective May 29th, pre-registration for the fitness center, pools, gymnasium and Child Watch are no longer required. However Group Exercise and Water Fitness classes will continue to require pre-registration. 
   • • Reserve your spot in a Group Exercise class before you arrive here.
     • Reserve your spot in Water Fitness

1. PHYSICAL DISTANCING: We will adhere to physical distancing requirements throughout our facilities and in our programs. We appreciate your help in keeping everyone safe.
2. WEAR A FACE MASK: Fully vaccinated individuals are advised to wear a mask or face covering when indoors outside of your home if you have a weakened immune system, are at increased risk for COVID-19, or if someone in your household is at increased risk or unvaccinated. If you or your child have not been vaccinated, then you still are required to wear a face mask. We still encourage all members to wear a mask in consideration for their fellow Y members. Staff will continue to wear a mask unless instructing a class. Select activities (swimming, group exercise) will allow for the removal of the face mask once you’ve established physical distancing and when directed by a team member. Moving to and from these programs will still require face masks.
3. BRING YOUR OWN: Please bring a water bottle, towel, and mat if needed. Unfortunately, water fountains will not be available, but water bottle filling stations will remain open, so be sure to bring your bottle.
4. CLEAN YOUR EQUIPMENT: Please wipe down equipment before and after each use. Cleaning supplies are provided.  This is imperative for the safety of all.

A RECAP OF WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU VISIT THE Y

1. Face coverings are required to enter facility if you haven’t been vaccinated. 
2. Pre-Screening is no longer required to gain entrance. Please complete the self-screening when you arrive to the YMCA, and stay home if you are feeling sick.
3. Towel service is temporarily unavailable.
4. Water fountains are bottle fill only. 
5. Coffee services will be temporarily unavailable.
6. Reservations are required for group and water exercise.
7. Hot tubs, saunas and steam rooms temporarily closed. 

WHAT THE Y IS DOING TO ENSURE A SAFE ENVIRONMENT

The YMCA of Greater Boston continues to monitor COVID-19 trends and follow guidance from the CDC, local health agencies and public officials to update our policies, practices and procedures to ensure the highest standards of cleanliness and hygiene and make appropriate accommodations for physical/social distancing. We work cooperatively with local health agencies and the Massachusetts Contact Tracing Collaborative to report COVID-19 exposures. The key measures we are taking to ensure a safe environment include:

• Limiting the number of people in our facilities and programs
• Safety Self-Screenings for Members, Program Participants and Team Members
• Personal Protection Equipment for all Staff
• Sneeze Shields Installed at Front Desk
• Newly Configured Ys to Ensure Physical Distancing
• Limited Points of Entry & Exits
• Increased Cleaning & Disinfecting Protocols
• Following local health agencies and MA Contact Tracing Collaborative guidance in the event of a COVID-19 exposure

GROUP EXERCISE PROTOCOLS

• Reconfigured Group Exercise spaces and capacity to allow physical distancing
• Pre-registration required to ensure your spot in Group Exercise and Water Exercise classes