November 2024 news
Actualités - Novembre 2024 - English news
Here are the highlights of this month's newsletter:
- Discover our 2024-2025 board of directors.
- The award winners of the 2024 Distinction Awards
- The 2024 Award winning camps of Excellence Awards
- Maximize your visibility with ACQ: purchase your advertising spaces now!
Discover our 2024-2025 board of directors
The Association des camps du Québec (ACQ) is proud to present the composition of its 2024-2025 board of directors.
Administrators of the Electoral College sleepaway camp
Shauna Joyce, Camp Amy Molson
Thomas Le Page-Gouin, Camp Le Manoir - President
Marilyse Richard-Robert, Edphy International
Guillaume Roberge, Centre Notre-Dame-de-Fatima
Administrators of the Electoral College Day camp
Frédéric Lanoue, Camp YouHou!
Olivier Lauzon, Camp Portneuf
Nancy Rozon, Camps de jour YOPI / Loisirs 3000
Electoral College Administrator Municipal Day Camp
Steeve Croteau, ville de Blainville
Independent Administrators
Corben Jersey
Mathieu Labine-Daigneault
Pascal Rousseau
Congratulations to the new administrators, and thank you for your involvement!
The award winners of the 2024 Distinction Awards
On November 13, the Association des camps du Québec (ACQ) presented the Distinction Awards as part of its conference in Rivière-du-Loup and highlighted the impressive contribution of people within the world of camps.
Congratulations to the 2024 winners!
Martine Dupont
The 2024 Grand Tribute Award was awarded to Ms. Martine Dupont, recreation technician, who devoted more than 30 years of her career to camps and recreation, including 25 years as Executive director at Camp et Auberge du Lac en Cœur.
Margot Lavoie
Winner of a 2024 Torchbearer award, Margot Lavoie, since 1995, has contributed professionalism, humanism, kindness, endearing personality and team spirit to help maintain the excellent reputation of Camp Canawish. This camp, mainly focused over the last decade on welcoming campers with special needs, has benefited from her invaluable commitment. To date, Margot Lavoie has dedicated 31 years of her life to Camp Canawish, including 22 as assistant director.
Jacques Proulx
Winner of a 2024 Torchbearer award, Jacques Proulx arrived at Camp Tekakwitha in 1971. Since then, he has held almost all the positions there. He founded the Pioneer Sector, a program of long expeditions for teenagers on the Appalachian Trail, one of his greatest legacies. He accompanied the first cohorts who still bear his indelible mark today.
Mélody Poulin
The 2024 Distinction Successor Award was awarded to Ms. Mélody Poulin, the first female winner and first person from a compliant municipal day camp in her category.
Mélody has several successes to her credit since taking up her position in 2013 at Vie culturelle et community de Granby, a paramunicipal NPO. Of all the mandates that she brilliantly oversees, the Club Vacances Jeunesse (CVJ) excites her the most, where she started as a counselor at the age of 15.
The 2024 Award winning camps of Excellence Awards
On November 12, the Association des camps du Québec (ACQ) presented the Excellence Awards as part of its conference in Rivière-du-Loup and highlighted the exceptional quality of camp projects.
Congratulations to the 2024 winners!
Plein Air Ville-Joie
The Excellence in Program and Camp Life award in the certified day camp category was awarded to Plein Air Ville-Joie for its Camp La Relève project.
Too old for day camp and too young to work? La Relève is a chance to learn the basics of camp work, customer service and cooking outdoors in Trois-Rivières.
Camp Trois-Saumons
The Excellence in Program and Camp Life award in the sleepaway camp or certified family camp category was awarded to Camp Trois-Saumons, a member of Camps Odyssée, for its Hiking Improvement Program — Monts Uapishka.
The Hiking Improvement Program offers an 11-day expedition in the Uapishka Mountains for teenagers aged 16 to 17 transitioning to their role as staff members at Trois-Saumons camp.
Centre Multi Loisirs Sherbrooke
The Excellence in Program and Camp Life award in the compliant municipal day camp category, was awarded to the Centre Multi Loisirs Sherbrooke for its ÉcoAventure project.
The EcoAventure program aims to develop ecological reflexes among young people at the day camp through various fun and educational activities, to promote and bring to life real gestures of change that encourage sustainable development within the framework of a city day camp.
La Zone Youhou!
The Excellence Development and Innovation award in the certified day camp category was awarded to La Zone Youhou! for his project Une retraite au camp.
For the 2024 summer season, La Zone Youhou! made room for retirees in day camps work teams. A targeted recruitment program has been established among this clientele.
Camp Richelieu St-Côme
The Excellence Development and Innovation award in the sleepaway camp or certified family camp category was awarded to Camp Richelieu St-Côme for its Forum Lanaudois des camps project.
The Forum Lanaudois en camps was born from an idea: why not bring all the camps in Lanaudière together, all types combined, for one day to exchange our practices, discuss our different challenges and learn together?
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Publié le 20 septembre 2024
