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The Muscatine Community Y Character Development program offers a wide variety of programs designed to serve youth in our community. We offer programs specifically for Middle School Students, such as our after-school and summer programs and also our leadership development groups.  We provide social and skill building recreation programs for 1st through 8th grade students, including soccer and basketball.  More information on these recreation programs can be found on this website under the Youth Sports heading.  Each of our Character Development programs fosters our core values of caring, honesty, respect and responsibility and our main goal is to serve youth through programs that promote healthy spirit, mind and body.

Character Development Calendar

Program Director: Amy Hessel Amy graduated from Loras College in 1997 with a BA in English Writing. After college she became an AmeriCorps Member, working one year with Safe Streets, and a half-year with Family Resources as a Shelter and Legal advocate.  During that time at Family Resources she also did child groups and sexual abuse advocacy. The second part of the year was spent with Big Brothers Big Sisters, working with the unmatched littles, completing paperwork and trainings. For two years while in AmeriCorps Amy worked as the Activity Center Director at an outreach program for  the Mississippi Valley Girl Scouts. There she worked with girls in kindergarten through fifth grade, planning and implementing art and recreational activities.  Amy has been the  Character Development Director at the Muscatine Community Y since 1999. You can reach Amy by calling the Muscatine Community Y at 263-9996 or email her at ahessel@muscatiney.org Advisory Committee:                                    Paula LeVasseur                                     Jeff Longtin                                    Barry Donovan                                    Carol Ward

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