Brace Family YMCA
Private
The Brace Family YMCA in Matthews is a branch of the YMCA of Greater Charlotte, which runs summer day camps for kids with weekly themes, sports, swimming, arts and crafts and field trips. Campers enroll by the week through the association. The nonprofit Y offers financial assistance.
The practical details
We list only what the camp itself publishes, and programs change — dates, prices, ages and availability can all move after we check. Confirm the details on the camp’s own website and contact Brace Family YMCA directly before you register or pay. Last checked August 2026.
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Google Reviews
Powered by GoogleReally beautiful and clean facility. Staff is friendly and helpful. Kaylyn was kind and helpful giving me a tour of the facility, let me know what resources were available, and offered me the facility’s schedule as well as help finding it on the app. Julianne helped me with signing up for a membership that was covered through my health insurance and also let me know about the benefits available through their app and offered me a schedule of their classes as well.
I love this YMCA!! The locker rooms/common areas are always clean. I never really have any trouble getting on the machines and the staff is always so friendly. They have a wide variety of classes. I've been trying to do as many different ones as possible. Thank you to all of the staff for all that you do!! 😄
All in all, the Brace Y is great. My only true critique of the Y, is that with the large increase in Asian members, is to conduct an orientation on “GYM ETIQUETTE”. There numerous times where people are on a particular machine for 10-15 while people are waiting for them to finish and things get backed up. I DO NOT believe that they are being malicious, it’s just that they don’t know any better. I don’t believe that by conducting an orientation class will completely solve this issue, but it certainly would go a long way to increase awareness.
Amy Bertram (Barre instructor) rocks!!🤩 I’m always challenged in her class, and always have a great time too! Also, today, I forgot my phone in the workout room, but another student (who is also an instructor at the Y), found it and met me on her way to turn it in. I’m so grateful for the Y as a place to take care of my body and get to know great people too!!
I recently visited Brace Family YMCA’s outdoor pool as a Nation Wide Member while in North Carolina visiting my daughter. The outdoor pool is great and has lots of fun features. We had lots of fun. The life guards are great at their jobs and very friendly. Just know if you have a child with the expectation of going down the 2 larger water slides. They will need to pass a quick safety swim test. They will need to be able to swim the length of the pool, float on stomach, float on back, and tread water for 1 minute. Also they do an adult only swim every hour at the last 10 minutes of the hour.





