Awards & Media
The Valiquette Academy Foundation Awards & Media
Featured on CityNews
"Books, Balls and Big Ideas at a Montreal Summer Camp"
“I’m a big believer that you’ve got to make the world a better place,” says founder & director of Valiquette Foundation, whose summer camp has become known across the NDG community for helping youth by adding academics. Corinne Boyer reports.
Featured on CTV News
"This Montreal Summer Camp Blends Academics with Arts and Sports"
The soundtrack of summer sounds a little different at Camp Valiquette; alongside camp songs are conversations about academics and financial literacy. More than 9000 young people from Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and surrounding communities have since signed up for the camp.
Awards: 2022
Jay Valiquette founded the organization in response to the concerning fact that our city (Montreal) has the highest high school dropout rate in Canada, compounded by the even more alarming statistics in our neighborhood.
In November 2022, Jay Valiquette was awarded the «Educational Leadership Award for exceptional community involvement and contribution» by the Montreal Community Cares Foundation for his decade-long commitment to empowering disadvantaged children.
A big thank you for your support! From left to right: Frank Chieng, Serg Pigeon, Jay Valiquette, Ilan Sarid, George Kiorpelidis.
"If you want your children to succeed, you want to send them to
the Valiquette Academy!"
Jack Fattal, LL.L, JD, MBA
Awards: 2020
The Valiquette Academy Foundation is proud to have received two awards in 2020: Best Tutoring Centre and Leading Provider of Digital Workshops.
These accolades underscore both our unwavering commitment to do everything possible in serving the most vulnerable families in our community and providing them with the opportunities to participate despite coming from a landscape marked by financial adversity, low educational attainment, and a high proportion of single-parent households.
Our programmes emerge as beacons of transformation. Catering to children in both primary and secondary school, we are critical to ensuring their academic success.