24/09/2026
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We're excited to share that World YMCA has launched its new report on community well-being, developed with the Mackenzie Health Institute (MHI).
As the Community Well-being Pillar Champion, The East Jerusalem YMCA is proud to have contributed to this milestone. Thank you to World YMCA and MHI for their partnership, and to YMCAs from all over the world that contributed to the report.
We also take this opportunity to thank the staff at the East Jerusalem YMCA; their experience, dedication, hard work, and commitment to the community we serve is what made our contribution possible and allowed us to lead with their experience as part of this global report.
يسعدنا أن نشارككم إطلاق الاتحاد العالمي لجمعيات الشبان المسيحية (World YMCA) تقريره الجديد حول رفاه المجتمع، والذي أُعدّ بالشراكة مع معهد ماكنزي للصحة (MHI).
وبصفتها الجمعية الرائدة في ركيزة رفاه المجتمع، تفخر جمعية الشبان المسيحية - القدس بمساهمتها في تحقيق هذا الإنجاز. نتوجه بالشكر إلى الاتحاد العالمي لجمعيات الشبان المسيحية ومعهد ماكنزي للصحة على هذه الشراكة، وإلى جمعيات الشبان المسيحية من مختلف أنحاء العالم التي ساهمت في إعداد التقرير.
كما نغتنم هذه الفرصة لنشكر طاقم الجمعية؛ فخبرتهم وتفانيهم وعملهم الدؤوب والتزامهم تجاه المجتمع الذي نخدمه هي ما جعل مساهمتنا ممكنة، وأتاح لنا أن نقود هذا الجهد بخبرتهم كجزء من هذا التقرير العالمي.
Read the full report and related resources:
• EIN Presswire announcement:
https://www.einpresswire.com/article/939642193/ymca-mckinsey-health-institute-call-for-investing-in-community-3-ways-to-improve-collective-and-individual-wellbeing
• World YMCA press release:
https://www.ymca.int/ymca-mckinsey-health-institute-call-for-investing-in-community-3-ways-to-improve-collective-and-individual-wellbeing/
• Full Community Wellbeing Framework:
https://www.ymca.int/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Community-Wellbeing-C4C_redesignedv2.pdf
• Compendium of case studies:
https://www.ymca.int/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Community-Wellbeing-case-study-appendix.pdf
Community wellbeing is more than the sum of individual outcomes. It reflects the relationships, institutions, and shared conditions (basic needs and access, safety and belonging, and participation and agency) that hold communities together.
Yet few existing frameworks fully connect individual wellbeing to the community conditions that shape it. Without that shared understanding, it's difficult to know not just whether people are thriving, but why, and what’s worth replicating.
Today, World YMCA and the McKinsey Health Institute release a new Community Wellbeing Framework to help bring everyone into alignment. It brings together four individual wellbeing outcomes: physical, mental, social, and spiritual; and three community wellbeing outcomes that enable people to thrive: basic needs and access, safety and belonging, and participation and agency.
The framework draws on global evidence, leading practices, and examples from across the YMCA Movement and beyond. The YMCA reaches over 65 million people across 120 countries and 12,000 communities. The report is designed to help public sector, businesses, funders, and communities strengthen the conditions that enable young people and communities to thrive, together.
Read the full report:https://www.ymca.int/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Community-Wellbeing-C4C_redesignedv2.pdf
See the full announcement: https://www.ymca.int/ymca-mckinsey-health-institute-call-for-investing-in-community-3-ways-to-improve-collective-and-individual-wellbeing/