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COR Volunteers

What is COR?

• A friendly, safe, non-judgemental place where students who’ve had too much to drink can come to sleep it off
• A non-medical detox service run by Health, Counselling and Disability Services. 
• A harm-reduction program aimed at reducing the risk of alcohol-related injury by assessing and monitoring intoxicated students, and referring them to a medical facility when warranted.
• Completely CONFIDENTIAL. No report of anyone’s visit to COR is ever given to anyone (not Residences, not Health Services, not the Registrar’s office, not parents … you get the picture).
• A support to the KGH Emergency Department. For every intoxicated student who comes to COR instead of the hospital, there’s an extra bed available in Emerg for a critically ill patient.

What happens at COR?

When intoxicated students come in, they are assessed and

monitored by trained detox staff from the Hotel Dieu Hospital

(HDH) Detox Centre and by student volunteers. When their

condition warrants it, COR staff will send students for medical

help at Kingston General Hospital.

Visitors to COR usually sleep it off in this safe environment. 

Because they’re monitored by COR staff, they’ll be helped

immediately if their condition worsens. 

Our goal is to keep you safe. That’s all. COR staff and

volunteers don’t lecture or tell you what to do or what not to do.  

What happens after a visit to COR?

All visitors are wakened by 6:30am. Almost always, they’re sent home at this time. If a visitor is still heavily

intoxicated and unsafe to leave, alternate arrangements will be made to ensure their safety. 

After that, nothing happens. COR does not follow up with students and it doesn’t tell anyone who visited.