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ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Signs Academic Partnership Agreement with Brigadoon Village

MOU Signing ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï and Brigadoon Children's Camp Society
ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï and Bridgadoon Village participants sign the MOU. Back from left: Rene Murphy, Jenn Ross, and Jen Kelday. Front from left: Tom Herman and David McKeage.

Wolfville, NS - ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï and Brigadoon Children's Camp Society today signed a memorandum of understanding that establishes ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï as an academic partner of the Aylesford Lake year -round recreation and research facility for youth living with chronic illness. 

"ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï's students, faculty, and staff are engaged in a number of initiatives that benefit our community and forming this partnership with Brigadoon Village is an exciting new opportunity to make a positive contribution," said Dr. Tom Herman, ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï's Vice-President Academic. "I believe our two organizations will benefit greatly from this partnership. Brigadoon will have access to our content experts and our students through their faculty advisors, and Brigadoon volunteers and staff will have new options for internships and research. Of course, the important beneficiaries of this will be young people who face chronic illness, and their families."

"Brigadoon is thrilled and proud to be partnering with ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï and looks forward to working with its students, faculty and staff. Brigadoon's efforts to improve the lives of children, youth and families living with a chronic illness are greatly enhanced by ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï's legacy of academic excellence and community involvement. The potential of learning and teaching opportunities with ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï is limitless, as is the national and international impact both organizations can achieve by working together," said Todd Bethune, Chair, Brigadoon Children's Camp Society.

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ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï, in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, has long been recognized as one of Canada's premier post-secondary institutions. With its nationally and internationally recognized undergraduate and graduate research initiatives, small classes, and technology-rich teaching and learning environment, ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï offers students an experience that includes academic achievement combined with personal growth and development. ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï also offers distance learning, certificate programs, language training and other university extension programs through Open ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï. For more information about ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï, visit our website at . 

ÍøÆØ³Ô¹Ï Brigadoon

Brigadoon is a not-for-profit group building a year-round facility dedicated to young people living with a chronic illness or condition, and to the teachers and health care providers dedicated to their care. Brigadoon will be the first facility of its kind in Atlantic Canada, and one of only a handful of facilities in Canada that focus on experiential based learning, research and teaching. Brigadoon will encompass the facility capacities of all presently existing special needs camps with room to develop more - with a focus on uncovering the vast unmet need of the pediatric chronic illness population in Atlantic Canada.  Brigadoon Village is currently being built on Aylesford Lake, Kings County, Nova Scotia. 

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Contacts:

Scott Roberts
Executive Director
Communications and Marketing
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(902) 585-1705 (Office)
(902)670-8966 (Cell)
scott.roberts@acadiau.ca
David McKeage
Executive Director
Brigadoon Children's Camp Society
(902) 422-3387
david.mckeage@brigadoonvillage.org