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University College Cork
Chapter Building
572 pointsPolicy Change
580 pointsTraining and Education
597 points1749
Spent: 545
Current balance: 1204
Activity Feed
| Action | Points | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Points Spent | -220 | banner, t-shirt | |
| Points Spent | -295 | 1 registration, 1 lodging for SSDP2019 | |
| Positive quote/media hit (10 points) | 10 | Our referendum and campaign was quoted in the 'University Times' http://www.universitytimes.ie/2019/03/ucc-students-vote-to-increase-student-media-funding/ | |
| Positive quote/media hit (10 points) | 10 | Cork Independent (online and paper back newspaper) did an article on our recent campaigning and referendum in our college. The article contains an interview with our Chairperson David O'Brien - http://www.corkindependent.com/news/topics/articles/2019/03/13/4170886-ucc-passes-vote-on-drugs/ | |
| Distribute harm reduction training/materials (1 point per person reached) | 38 | While tabelling on Tuesday March 5th to campaign for a Yes vote in our referendum in our college we distributed harm reduction materials to students. Condoms - 10 Harm Reduction leaflets (drug information, safer user tips, etc) - 45 | |
| Host general event/forum/debate (20 points) | 20 | On March 6th we held our Annual General Meeting in our college, in which students, members of faculty, and members of the public were invited to attend. As this meeting we went over our chapters constitution, and amended 2 points of the constitution. Furthermore we reflected on the year gone, and elected our new chapter for 2019/2020. Link to event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2303518833199442/ | |
| Get politician on the record (15 points) | 15 | Irish Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, who was the former Minister of State for the National Drugs Strategy, has come out in support of our campaign and harm reduction advocacy. He also tweeted out to his followers to encourage students in our college to support our referendum! | |
| Policy changed or adopted (50 points) | 50 | Thanks to our campaign work and seeing a referendum being put forward to the students in our college, our Students' Union now officially adopts the policy where they support the decriminalization of the possession of drugs for personal consumption in Ireland for adults aged 18 years and over. The new policy also requires the to campaign in Ireland for this, and they must join the growing groups in Ireland which lobby the Irish government on this issue. | |
| Pass a student government resolution endorsing policy reform (20 points) | 20 | On March 7th following 3 day of voting on our campus, students voted on our referendum. There was a total of 4,677 student votes cast on the referendum we put forward. 3,331 students voted YES to our referendum, 1,259 voted No, and 87 vote were deemed spoiled. As a result of our vote winning, it is now official policy of our Student Union in University College Cork to actively support and campaign for the decriminalization of the possession of drugs in Ireland for personal consumption for adults aged 18 years and over in Ireland. | |
| Each new officer recruited and trained (VP, Sec, Treas, etc.) (5 points. per semester) | 5 | On March 6th at our AGM we elected a new Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson, Public Relations Officer, Finance Officer, Outreach Officer, and 3 Ordinary Committee Members. | |
| Positive quote/media hit (10 points) | 10 | Our Chairperson was interviewed by UCC Express (which is the official campus newspaper of UCC) to talk about the campaign for our decriminalisation referendum. On March 5th the interview was published. Link to the article - https://uccexpress.ie/ucc-students-for-sensible-drug-policy-push-for-yes-vote-in-upcoming-decriminalisation-referendum/ | |
| Table on campus (5 points) | 5 | On Wednesday March 6th Jamie, David, Adam, Emily, Mark and Claudia tabelled on campus from 12.30pm-4.30pm to distribute harm reduction materials and campaign and canvass for our referendum. | |
| Table on campus (5 points) | 5 | On Tuesday March 5th Jamie, David, Adam, Ruby, Ida and Mark tabelled on campus from 11am-4.30pm to distribute harm reduction materials and campaign and canvass for our referendum. | |
| Recruit and train next chapter President (30 points) | 30 | On the 6th of March we held out AGM, in which we elected students to join our chapter for 2019/2020. On the night Ruby Rose Lawlor was elected as Chairperson for UCC SSDP for the next year. Having been a member with the chapter for the last 2 years, she has seen how the chapter is run. She is currently being trained to become the the next Chairperson(President) of our chapter, and will shadow our current our Chairperson David until his term ends on May 31st. | |
| Positive quote/media hit (10 points) | 10 | Tony Duffin (CEO of Ana Liffey Drug Project), Irish Senator Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Cork City Councillor Fiona Ryan all have made statements on line in recent days praising our work for campaigning to have a referendum in our university calling for students to vote in favour that it will become policy for our student union to support and campaign for the decriminalisation of the possession of drugs for personal consumption in Ireland. | |
| Distribute harm reduction training/materials (1 point per person reached) | 104 | While tabelling on Wednesday February 21st to collect signatures for our ballot initiative to hold a referendum in our college next month we handed out harm reduction materials to students. Safer Snorting Straws and leaflets - 37 Condoms - 25 (we ran out of them!) Harm Reduction leaflets (drug information, safer user tips, etc) - 58 Alex Adventures Card (plastic information card that can fit in wallets, which show pictures of what to do if someone overdoses, recovery position, etc) - 4 We have made a count of how much materials we have before and after each time we table, hence we have the numbers above! | |
| Collect signatures for ballot initiative (5 points per person per hour) | 100 | David, Ida, Adam, Jamie, Ruby and Mark all tabelled at different points on campus on Thursday February 21st to collect the remaining amount of signatures needed for our ballot initiative to hold a referendum in our college next month. 12pm-1pm Jamie, Ruby, Ida 1pm-2pm Jamie, Ruby, Ida, Mark, Adam 2pm-3pm Jamie, Ruby, Ida, Mark Adam 3pm-4pm Jamie, Mark, Adam, David 4pm-5pm Jamie, David, Adam | |
| Table on campus (5 points) | 5 | Tabelled on Campus Thursday 21st Feb to collect signatures for campaign and hand out harm reduction materials. Photo from table on campus - https://www.instagram.com/p/BuJRwS1hUkT/ | |
| Distribute harm reduction training/materials (1 point per person reached) | 133 | While tabelling on Wednesday February 20th to collect signatures for a ballot initiative to hold a referendum in our college next month we handed out harm reduction materials to students. Safer Snorting Straws and leaflets - 40 Condoms - 19 Harm Reduction leaflets (drug information, safer user tips, etc) - 68 Alex Adventures Card (plastic information card that can fit in wallets, which show pictures of what to do if someone overdoses, recovery position, etc) - 6 | |
| Distribute harm reduction training/materials (1 point per person reached) | 216 | While tabelling on Tuesday February 19th to collect signatures for a ballot initiative to hold a referendum in our college next month we handed out harm reduction materials to students. Safer Snorting Straws and leaflets - 78 Condoms - 45 Harm Reduction leaflets (drug information, safer user tips, etc) - 95 Alex Adventures Card (plastic information card that can fit in wallets, which show pictures of what to do if someone overdoses, recovery position, etc) - 12 | |
| Collect signatures for ballot initiative (5 points per person per hour) | 95 | David, Ida, Adam, Jamie, Ruby and Mark all tabelled at different points on campus on Wednesday February 20th to collect signatures for a ballot initiative to hold a referendum in our college next month. 11am-12pm Ruby Adam Ida 12pm-1pm Jamie Ida 1pm-2pm Jamie David Adam Mark 2pm-3pm Jamie David Adam Mark 3pm-4pm Jamie David Adam Mark 4pm-5pm Jamie David | |
| Collect signatures for ballot initiative (5 points per person per hour) | 100 | David, Ida, Adam, Jamie, Ruby and Mark all tabelled at different points on campus on Tuesday February 19th to collect signatures for a ballot initiative to hold a referendum in our college next month. 11am-12pm Ruby Adam 12pm-1pm Ruby Adam Ida 1pm-2pm David Mark Ida Adam 2pm-3pm David Mark Ida Jamie 3pm-4pm David Adam Mark Jamie 4pm-5pm David Adam Mark | |
| Volunteer at SSDP or partner event (5 points per person per hour) | 35 | David, Adam, Ruby, Ida, Emily, Jamie and Mark volunteered at Irish SSPD national gathering on February 9th in UCD, Dublin. | |
| Attend leadership or skills-building training (5 points per person per training) | 20 | On Tuesday 19th February our Chairperson David, Vice Chair Adam, Outreach officer Jamie, and Ordinary Committee Member Mark attended a Media Training in our college. The event was rand by Executive Director of SpunOut.ie Ian Power. We learned new skills for dealing with media relations, utilising social media, gaining sponsorship. David and Jamie also worked out a media plan with Ian for our campaign on holding a referendum in UCC next month. | |
| Table on campus (5 points) | 5 | Tabelled on Campus Wednesday 20th Feb to collect signatures for campaign and hand out harm reduction materials. Photo from table on campus - https://www.facebook.com/UCCSSDP/photos/np.1550676586772089.100001545034446/2064375206980395/?type=3&theater¬if_t=photo_tag¬if_id=1550676586772089 | |
| Table on campus (5 points) | 5 | Tabelled on Campus Tuesday 19th Feb to collect signatures for campaign and hand out harm reduction materials. Photo from table on campus - https://www.instagram.com/p/BuEoEpwhPmr/ | |
| Build/maintain relationships with other orgs on campus (10 points per org. per semester) | 90 | Following the launch of our campaign to see a student referendum in March 2019, several different organisations and societies on our campus have came out publicly in support of our campaign. The referendum will have the following wording "UCC student union shall actively support and campaign for the decriminalization of the possession of drugs for personal consumption for adults aged 18 and over in Ireland". Groups that have come out in support and praised our work - Connolly Youth Society (10 points), Socialist Youth (10 points), Sámh Society (10 points), Environmental Society (10 points), UCC Students Union (10 points), Social Democrats (10 points), UCC Societies (10 points), Ro4Welfare (10 points), AmyForDeputy&Campaigns (10 points). | |
| Positive quote/media hit (10 points) | 10 | Our Chairperson David O'Brien was on the radio station 'Red FM' on the 'Neil Prendeville Show' discussing harm reduction and issues in our college for Raise&Give Week. Our chapter was praised for being pro-active on drugs and our chairperson for being interviewed. Interview can be listened here - https://www.facebook.com/UCCSSDP/videos/282492332421875/?__xts__[0]=68.ARCPz9RNlwUlgZLJm80uVXAUIsDNpK7o0DeI7wJ4xCllWoVqHG1CikzsUvf09f3_AVjHW1QOThWqs9C9NAKgJBXH08dIpSlhcPowLiH-LtSAI5Kr9sUMAQE0rD5XlfFwQBCQWkjg3e6ilvBpQQGgAgECYkHEuRz-IQ3GmBIqRq4UT4lFHABSbNeLtZV6IXpJXxSTWTF_SpKXF1PW1HBmc77MKvcRPNZoDVGF4PKllSdl8qdhphiEpKiY1QRWVVmCp_Jahjt4VRYKUDOcrpev7ThrgpY-3rDwwIakfFd3blIkjbDtN3R7W6rcRxf6E70Pt9kAIEVaP8ABHtC3TNTIb6cN4zOX7BOgw95VtQ&__tn__=H-R | |
| Distribute educational materials in a non-tabling setting (5 points) | 5 | Exchanged and distrbuted educational materials with other SSDPers and members of the public at SSDP Ireland National Gathering 2019. | |
| Meet with decision makers (20 points) | 20 | Meet Michelle Byrne and Damien McClean from the USI (Union of Students of Ireland) at the SSDP Ireland National Gathering. Michelle and Damien decide the campaigns and welfare initiatives for university students in Ireland. The USI represents more than 374,000 students in over forty colleges across Ireland. We talked to them about the harm reduction policy they are getting Student Unions in different colleges in Ireland to implement, which will focus on drug harm reduction. | |
| Meet with SSDPers in another chapter (20 points) | 20 | Met SSDPers from Dublin College University, University College Dublin, and Galway SSDP at SSDP Ireland national gathering on February 9th 2019 in UCD, Dublin. Photo from the gathering of different chapter members meeting! https://twitter.com/uccssdp/status/1094631275556716551 | |
| Host campaign-themed event/forum/debate (20 points) | 20 | On Wednesday the 6th February we held a Harm Reduction Information Night in line with our campaign of promoting drug harm reduction for an upcoming week in our University called "RAG Week" (RAG = Raise and Give, this is a week dedicated to fundraising for charities in our City. The week holds a lot of events that involve alcohol, and every night of the week there is nightclubs/bars/pubs near the college holding events). At our event last night we had students drop in and we gave them educational and harm reduction materials. Link to event - https://www.facebook.com/events/233926350820546/ | |
| Distribute harm reduction training/materials (1 point per person reached) | 10 | On Wednesday the 6th February we held a Harm Reduction Information Night in line with our campaign of promoting drug harm reduction for an upcoming week in our University called "RAG Week". Students were given harm reduction materials (booklets/information cards/leaflets/straws/condoms/etc). | |
| Distribute educational materials in a non-tabling setting (5 points) | 5 | On Wednesday the 6th February we held a Harm Reduction Information Night in line with our campaign of promoting drug harm reduction for an upcoming week in our University called "RAG Week" (RAG = Raise and Give, this is a week dedicated to fundraising for charities in our City. The week holds a lot of events that involve alcohol, and every night of the week there is nightclubs/bars/pubs near the college holding events). At our event last night we had students drop in and we gave them educational and harm reduction materials. | |
| Recognized by school/remain in good standing with school (10 points per semester) | 10 | In December of every year in our university the guild (a student organisation that regulates college clubs/soceities/chapters) holds a "mid-year review". We have successfully passed our mid year review for the semester September 2018-December 2018. | |
| Distribute harm reduction training/materials (1 point per person reached) | 26 | We handed our harm reduction information sheets today on campus to students. With each students we had a chat about valuable harm reductions tips that many had not heard of or ever considered. Our sheets varied in different ways (example, we had sheets on what is cocaine, what is mdma, what is lsd, what is speed, what is 2cp, etc). All information was taken from various sources such as DanceSafe, SSDP.org, Leafy. Accompanying each sheet was a sheet on harm reduction tips for people such as - know your source, avoid using alone, start with small doses, take time between hits, use one drug at a time, always carry condoms, don't share drug paraphernalia, etc. | |
| Table on campus (5 points) | 5 | Ruby, Sarah, Ida, Adam, Mark, and David took different shifts tabelling on campus today. We handed out harm reduction information sheets and promoted our next event on campus! | |
| Host general event/forum/debate (20 points) | 20 | On Wednesday the 23rd of January we held our first drug policy-related screening of the semester. We screened the 2012 Sundance Film Festival 'documentary of the year' The House I Live In, which gave a penetrating look inside America's criminal justice system, revealing the profound human rights implications of U.S. drug policy. It was a chance for students to see footage of the inhuman effects the failed war on drugs has had on people. Facebook event page link from the screening: https://www.facebook.com/events/364020147510056/ | |
| Table on campus (5 points) | 5 | On Thursday January 31st, David, Mark, Adam and Sarah tabelled on campus from 12.30pm-4pm. We engaged with students, got signature to our emailing list, and handout out relevant material. Photos from tabel on campus - https://www.instagram.com/p/BtUOF7lBCww/ | |
| Points Spent | -30 | Care package | |
| Host regular meetings, at least twice a month (15 points. per semester) | 15 | Our semester ran from mid September 2018 - early December 2018. In that time we have held weekly chapter meetings. We held meetings on: 6th Sept, 13th Sept, 19th Sept, 26th Sept, 9th Oct, 11th Oct, 16th Oct, 23rd Oct, 30th Oct, 8th Nov, 13th Nov, 19th Nov, 28th Nov, Dec 5th. | |
| Attend leadership or skills-building training (5 points per person per training) | 5 | On November 15th our Chapters vice-chairperson Adam went to DIT, Dublin to attend the BICS Forum 2018 (BICS = Board of Irish College Societies). At the Forum Adam attended different talks and workshops and came away with information helpful for our chapter. The theme of the forum was focused around celebrating diversity. | |
| Attend leadership or skills-building training (5 points per person per training) | 40 | On November 27th our chapter members David, Adam, Marcus, Ruby, Mark, Emily, Jamie, and Mark attended a harm reduction/emergency response workshop in our college, which was hosted by Nicole Ryan of Alex's Adventure of a Lifetime and our Student Union. It was a fantastic opportunity to learn vital information regarding drug use and harm reduction. Fb post about the event - https://www.facebook.com/UCCSSDP/posts/1940351479382769?__xts__[0]=68.ARBo1_PLRSKwjMV9WZugvRqbXh-lRjNUx3Ta-o_8UmmIMsZ4M0Rk06V2NQ6sKziP5faMClSNkBvJ_b_esLj7o9yppE518Vqrk9mvt3XY4ld6f6fJ7Koze4jkLCO4YG_VwuzNholm-ga5Kdl4k-r8gkgTtg9upDkCqEfvTS1e1KE4S5LZJAcASgwivOBK_-C7F1ibdKU83awhjzs_9BR-zoAULIkb1qKeVXTJSmFK4qRBvbaqcqU56l_AX4Ac9Qr5JBVfw1OdgmOq6r8GCztqqqlPCHfm2rrdnXakTrsa8nMWZ2m4js2Hts6YdOllUGRfsGsa_Y24S_zuGBlEoUJLJ3cRJg&__tn__=-R | |
| Policy changed or adopted (50 points) | 50 | Earlier this year our SSDP chapter saw our motion passed in our colleges Student Council, which called for our Student Union to lobby our college to provide an affordable drug testing kit program to students and implement better harm reduction education (Link to news article regarding that motion passing: https://www.eveningecho.ie/corknews/UCC-Students-Union-vote-to-introduce-drug-checking-kits-cfa49e32-49d1-4286-8e25-710a4f38f6b1-ds). Earlier this week (Monday Nov. 19th), David, Adam and Ruby from our chapter met with 2 representatives of our Students Union to discuss what had been done since the motion passed and what needs to be done moving forward. The Harm Reduction education has proved successful, with every freshers park first year received this August (start of semester) containing harm reduction leaflets and cards we approve of. Our SU have adopted a more harm reduction based approach to any drug related issues. We are helping them in their campaign to see testing-kits be provided with students right now. | |
| Policy changed or adopted (50 points) | 50 | The Irish government has recently announced that they will be implementing supervised injection facilities in Ireland, with the first center to be piloted in Dublin. The project will be supervised by our national health service (known as the 'HSE'). SSDP chapters in Ireland have long been involved in different lobbying movements to see this happen. UCC SSDP and CIT SSDP (chapters based in County Cork, ROI) will continue to lobby to see this expanded from state level to local level. | |
| Table on campus (5 points) | 5 | David, Ida, and Adam tabled on one of our colleges satellite campuses today. https://www.instagram.com/p/BqcMhJrHpQQ/ | |
| Host campaign-themed event/forum/debate (20 points) | 20 | On November 15th our chapter and the CIT chapter of SSDP held a fundraiser event of stand-up comedy with different comedians from around Ireland. The theme of the night was drug policy as the event was to raise funds to support UCC SSDP and CIT SSDP in acquiring harm reduction materials for students to give out on our campuses as we continue our campaigns to see our colleges introduce a program for the student unions to be allowed distribute testing-kits and better harm reduction education for students. Link to event: https://www.facebook.com/UCCSSDP/posts/1923802427704341?__xts__[0]=68.ARARJxrJJtWCg_l-RL9kP57lZ_O_fJ6_-en2BcFtYnAPROf5DtcRvug8mgjfg9Qi4W6atE5kMwuLhEOL1Fd7phRR0tXE14FUKKWPHJkPY8FOqxrsVIL4O5wR_OnkA3JThULL-Xahtl4ctWrhNdUjtc_PjotSQzYGgO_1-zoRkwJswPqONK2HRFWjZqXjjtp6xhEa7UrRBHdc5S9ofdTjVLYfgGdx2bMdV07ykfz_S71PCWTMF9G3b_4MMHDBQR8CeF88-2c0RWySOdzXxbi28uhKJqK7_IDuX5T5TxXgPCAsN0UOO8d4glqpV4aymJmS-VXKXc0UQOiR2PM_6eS_-rA41A&__tn__=-R | |
| Meet with SSDPers in another chapter (20 points) | 20 | On November 15th our chapter co-hosted a fundraiser for harm reduction materials with the CIT chapter of SSDP. Photo of some committee members from both CIT SSDP and UCC SSDP: https://www.facebook.com/UCCSSDP/photos/a.632932243458039/1923790637705520/?type=3&theater | |
| Meet with SSDPers in another chapter (20 points) | 20 | Our events officer Ruby was with Declan from DCU SSDP where they talked about future events for SSDP in Ireland and National Strategy. Irish chapters are currently working on changing annual SSDP conference format. | |
| Meet with SSDPers in another chapter (20 points) | 20 | Our committee member Mark meet with SSDPers from different chapters whilst representing our chapter in Vienna, Austria Nov 9th-11th. https://twitter.com/uccssdp/status/1061714232373317637 | |
| Table on campus (5 points) | 5 | David, Claudia, Marcus and Emily tabled on one of our colleges satellite campuses today. It was a great chance to meet new students and further spread our current campaign on campus for our University to introduce a drug-testing kit program for students to avail of. Instagram link to photos of our table: https://www.instagram.com/p/BqKkncaHgRV/ | |
| Attend leadership or skills-building training (5 points per person per training) | 10 | From Friday November 9th - Sunday November 11th our chapter Chairperson David and Events officer Ruby attended the All-Ireland Student Activist Gathering in Cork, Ireland. The event was run by Activists and was a great opportunity to build networks with other activists and see if how intersectional our different causes and campaigns are. Amongst the many activities over the weekend David and Ruby attended a workshop on campaign building, David attended a workshop on Media engagement and Ruby attended a workshop on Non-Violent Direct Action. Tweets (w/ photos): https://twitter.com/uccssdp/status/1061714232373317637 , https://twitter.com/uccssdp/status/1061734075776540673 | |
| Host campaign-themed event/forum/debate (20 points) | 20 | On November 1st 2018, we held a campaign themed event in our college called 'Test Kit Campaign Strategy Workshop'. Our chapters event officer Ruby Lawlor hosted the event in which committee members and students worked together to see a programme introduced in our college that would see our Students Union introduce affordable drug testing kits for students to avail of. Facebook link to our event: https://www.facebook.com/events/248088542553115/ , Instagram link to a post about our event: https://www.instagram.com/p/BpsVpuZnif4/ | |
| Table on campus (5 points) | 5 | On Wednesday 7th November 2018 we had a table on one of our colleges satellite campuses. It was a great opportunity to meet students we might not have got to meet otherwise. Facebook link to photos of our table: https://www.facebook.com/UCCSSDP/posts/1912573948827189?__xts__[0]=68.ARAfkNKPvDert-X2ya-ZBJOBLU1OlrFuUHgcDYU2KFCr6cQmW2nQbnEda-rFfbXH4cUElhZMypTXt-bRDLUAo0gYO1MALHj7oA-JVHlRwp64fWo-hzNB26AO28HMltapXaRatj94TtFmMH0fNaUvAnlIR4A1cJDl-J4fewbcggI76-LOSudSqObr3v3AY5jl9cp_AiMKwjKo_dSJqs_EqsPIRUc&__tn__=-R | |
| Apply for school funding (1 point for every $10 raised) | 101 | On September 24th our chapter sought funding from our College (University College Cork). On October 9th we received €1,011.00 in funding from the college for the year ahead. We emailed our European Global Fellow Orsi Feher with photo evidence of the funding on October 10th. | |
| Host campaign-themed event/forum/debate (20 points) | 20 | Hosted campaign themed event. On October 2nd 2018 we held our EGM (extraordinary general meeting), an event we host every October in our college. At this event we outlined our plans for the year ahead, and sought feedback from students. At the EGM we held elections for members to join our committee. We elected 9 new members to our committee who all confirmed they support the mission of SSDP to see reform to Drug Policy. Furthermore our new members expressed passion in seeing our harm-reduction campaign for the year ahead come to fruition. We have now publicly committed to a rigorous year of promoting harm-reduction policies for the year ahead. Also mentioned at the EGM by our Chairperson was that next year (April-May 2019) we will engage with local city and county councillors to adopt a pro-harm reduction stance when running for council elections which are set to take place in Summer 2019. Facebook link to our event - https://www.facebook.com/events/2175798829298372/ | |
| Submit roster on time (10 points plus 1 point per five new, valid e-mails) | 11 | Submitted our roster for 2018-2019 to outreach@ssdp.org and to our Global Fellow in Europe, Orsi Fehér on October 5th 2018. We held our EGM on October 2nd in our College which saw us add 9 new members to our committee, making it 14 people in total on our committee for the academic year ahead. Facebook link to the EGM event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2175798829298372/ | |
| Host general event/forum/debate (20 points) | 20 | On September 19th we held an event in our college called "UCC SSDP Intro night: Discussion, Screening, and Pizza!". Our Chairperson David O'Brien gave a powerpoint presentation highlighting the history of SSDP, why drug policy reform, how we make an impact on our college, and other aspect related to our work. We ordered pizza for everyone and screened the documentary 'A New Understanding: Science of Psilocybin' to mark 9/20. Facebook link to the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2097944276923213/ | |
| Table on campus (5 points) | 5 | On September 12th our college held a 'Societies Day' which involved different societies/groups/chapters being together in a large hall at tables to showcase what we do. We engaged with many new students on the day and got 117 students to sign up to become members. | |
| Attend leadership or skills-building training (5 points per person per training) | 5 | On September 10th 2018 our chapter Chairperson David O'Brien attend a Financial training event organised by our college. The aim of this skill-building event was to help chapters/groups/societies in our college understand how to engage in financial matters in relation to our chapters/groups/societies, budget for the year, etc. | |
| Table on campus (5 points) | 5 | On Saturday 8th September 2018 as part of our colleges 'Freshers Fest' (a day where incoming first year students can meet clubs/teams/societies/groups on campus) our chapter had a table out all day. 4 members of our chapter were at the table all day. We engaged with incoming students and talked about various drug policy related issues. (Link: https://www.facebook.com/UCCSSDP/posts/1829906090427309?__xts__[0]=68.ARAIyviBz1da_lx2W-4giYd_m94FDEp1Z19ctwwJlc46rhvws7dV7eoUChI77otvyq6L08Q0JpVUIFQa9FVDITprqQYYEr5ukebZ4xXv223bBZr9mz-mz97-wLz-FgzzxDpHM-Bd4jkvstUa5tU2ZTjB-Znq5vjQzIhFRdszNRmzYYEla1VqPg&__tn__=-R) | |
| Attend leadership or skills-building training (5 points per person per training) | 5 | On August 24th 2018 our chapter Chairperson David O'Brien attend a 'Chairperson Training Day' event organised by our college. |