Peer Assisted Student Support

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Peer Assisted Student Support

• (PASS)
• Claire Dunne

Orientation 2009
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uLink Peer Support
PEER SUPPORT LEADER
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uLink Peer Support

• Example Peer Support Leader
• (Civil Engineering, year 2)
• linked with
• Group of Students
• (Civil Engineering, year 1)
• Meet with group
• Meet on one-to-one basis
• Answer email queries

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uLink Peer Support

• Peer Support Leaders variety of years, courses
  and backgrounds.
• Mature Student Peer Support Leaders
• Not linked with but available to all other mature
  students.

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What can they help me with?

• Reading timetables
• What the codes for rooms mean
• Structure of course and department
• How to operate blackboard
• How to find books in the Library
• Who to go to if you need information
• What lecturers are like!

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What can they help me with?

• Talk to them if
• not making friends or settling in
• having second thoughts
• having trouble in accommodation
• finding the academic work difficult
• struggling with juggling everything
• unhappy or feeling isolated
• They can point you in the
• right direction for help!

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How to contact them

• At university orientation between 7th and 18th
  September you will meet with your peer support
  leader
• Meet mature peer support leaders at coffee
  morning during fresher's fest over 19th and 20th
  September
• Get their email details there
• Contact pass_at_ucc.ie
• 021 420 5188

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Niteline
Student to student telephone listening service
Confidential Anonymous Non-directive Non-judgement
al
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Contact
Claire Dunne PASS Office 6 Bloomfield Terrace (in
front of Castlewhite Apartments) Western
Road Email pass_at_ucc.ie Website
www.ucc.ie/en/pass Tel [phone] THANK YOU!