Frontline Support campaign

Uniting a caring community

In 2021, the Frontline Support: Health-care Heroes Closer to Home campaign was created with two robust advisory committees in Barrie and Owen Sound. The campaign raised funds to renovate nursing facilities, upgrade technology and establish new awards, scholarships and bursaries for nursing students at the Barrie and Owen Sound campuses.

Thanks in large part to generous donors, Georgian students now have access to immersive, interdisciplinary spaces and cutting-edge equipment to learn on mirroring similar equipment they’ll use in their field placements and careers.

Although our initial campaign goal has been reached, the health-care industry continues to evolve and our spaces and technology must change with it in order for our students to learn in real-life settings. You can help us do MORE.

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Read more stories published in the 2 023 GeorgianView print magazine highlighting the Frontline Support: Health-care Heroes Closer to Home campaign.

Barrie Campus

A $3-million investment by generous donors, government and Georgian has allowed the college to transform 15,000 square feet of space at the Barrie Campus in the Sadlon Centre for Health, Wellness and Sciences.

The transformation includes a state-of-the-art simulation environment that is the only one of its kind in Ontario higher education.

The Frontline Support campaign was very fortunate to have the support and community-first guidance from volunteers advisors including:

Debbie DeCaire
Chris Gariepy (Co-chair)
Peggy Hill

Bryan Howcroft
Jane Jackson
Lisa Tamblyn (class of 1985)

Sybil Taylor (Co-chair)

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The reveal of a major renovation at Georgian College’s Sadlon Centre for Health, Wellness and Sciences took place on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. From left: Treva Job, Manager, Simulation Centre, Georgian College; Lexi Brand, major donor and Director, Brand Family Foundation; Sybil Taylor, co-chair of the Frontline Support: Health-care Heroes Closer to Home campaign; Kevin Weaver, President and CEO, Georgian College; Vibhu Vibhu, student in the Honours Bachelor of Science – Nursing program; and Chris Gariepy, co-chair of the Frontline Support: Health-care Heroes Closer to Home campaign.
Lexi Brand, a director at Brand Family Foundation chats with Kevin Weaver, President and CEO of Georgian and David Bell, Associate Vice President of Advancement and Alumni Relations
Members of the Georgian College Students’ Association (GCSA), from left to right, Muibdeen Taiwo, Bradu Zapalski, Mike White and Dikshant Thudral stand in the GCSA named space.
Kevin Weaver, President and CEO of Georgian and the Hon. Andrea Khanjin, Minister of Environment, Conservation and Parks and MPP Barrie-Innisfil pose with a life-like manikin.
Georgian staff and faculty were able to share more about the future of healthcare education with donors and community members who attended the event.
Tours offered an opportunity to learn about the exceptional, state-of-the art technology available to students for safe, real-life learning.
Jane (Brown) Jackson, a long-time champion of Georgian students with a high-tech pediatric simulation manikin.

Owen Sound Campus

Georgian officially opened the newly transformed wing on Sept. 22, 2022 in preparation for the Honours Bachelor of Science – Nursing degree program that launched in the fall of 2022 at both the Owen Sound and Barrie campuses.

The $7.1-million renovation transformed over 10,000 square feet at the campus. This state-of-the-art Nursing and Wellness Wing provides space and technology for students in nursing, Personal Support Worker, Police Foundations, and other programs.

The Frontline Support campaign was very fortunate to have the support and community-first guidance from volunteers advisors including:

Steve Lowe (Chair)
Rob Cordell

William “Bill” Van Wyck
Kim Wingrove

Browse through some photos from the event.

Read the grand opening news release

The grand opening platform party cuts the ribbon, officially opening the new Nursing and Wellness Wing at Georgian College’s Owen Sound Campus. Pictured from left to right, front row: Warden Selwyn Hicks, Hana Plantt, Katrina Brown; middle row: Rob Cordell, Steve Lowe, Kevin Weaver, Sheila West, Fred Varkaris; back row: MPP Rick Byers, MPP Natalie Pierre, Sara Lankshear, Bill Van Wyck, Mayor Ian Boddy, and Gary Sims.
Guests tour the new wing
Guests tour one of the new labs while an Honours Bachelor of Science – Nursing student explains the new simulation technology including high-fidelity manikins.
Natalie Pierre, Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Colleges and Universities and MPP-Burlington (right), learns about the palliative care simulation lab from Personal Support Worker student Melissa Cameron.
Signature multi-purpose classroom.
Teaching apartment.
A few of our nursing students.