2025 Impact Report: A Year of Resilience

YMCAs of Québec's 2025 impact report covers a year of organisational resilience following significant budget challenges, including closure of the International Language School and day camp programmes. Despite this, 71,450 people were supported including 38,340 young people. Key programmes include TeenZones for teens and young adults, Camp Kanawana, La Boussole criminal reintegration (40th anniversary), Back on Track school dropout prevention, temporary housing for nearly 2,200 people, and fitness and aquatic activities for nearly 30,000 participants.

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Youth success programmes (TeenZones, Back on Track school dropout prevention, Naismith Basketball League, C-Vert environmental leadership); Camp YMCA Kanawana overnight camp; temporary housing for asylum seekers and people in transitory situations; exclusion prevention including La Boussole criminal records reintegration programme; outreach and homelessness support; fitness, aquatics and health programmes; aquatic certifications and lifeguard training

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 71,450 people supported in 2025, including 38,340 young people

Key Metric 2 25,217 young people supported by programmes fostering their success; 4,419 teens and young adults made 66,554 visits to 11 TeenZones

Key Metric 3 29,964 people got active through fitness and aquatic activities; 5,605 children learned to swim or participated in swim lessons

Key Outcomes

1,876 asylum seekers and 276 people in transitory situations welcomed through YMCA Residences temporary housing; 135 people per evening sheltered at Downtown YMCA warming centre over winter
5,491 people with criminal records supported through La Boussole and social reintegration programmes; 534 participants helped by La Boussole in its 40th anniversary year
3,429 students supported through Back on Track school dropout prevention programme (formerly Alternative Suspension), active in 70 communities worldwide since 1999; 862 campers at Camp Kanawana with 58 families receiving financial assistance