Moving forward.

Over the past 6 weeks, our team has had the opportunity to evaluate the prevalent social issue in Vancouver of drug addiction. We started out by identifying some key factors and causes of the issue itself before thinking about and evaluating solutions. Addiction is a major issue interrelated to a number of other deep and complex social issues. We made contact with a significant number of individuals from the addiction community and beyond to further develop our ideas and gain valuable input and insight. We were fortunate enough to be able to connect with a number of knowledgeable and influential individuals on this issue and to garner a great deal of support from professionals we spoke to.

Actually putting our solution into practice will require commitment, both time wise and financially, that we have decided are not capable of handling ourselves. We have presented our project plan to SFU Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) to be evaluated and we hope that SIFE can take the groundwork we have laid out and create a meaningful and effective event utilizing their existing contacts and resources. We are also awaiting indication from The Economist on sponsorship and funding, under their ‘Think Differently” marketing campaign, for which we approached them with a title sponsorship offer.

It is our hope that the connections we have made in the addiction community and beyond in collaboration with the connections of SIFE can be utilized to achieve the goals of our event with the assistance and guidance from those most experienced in creating meaningful and productive case competition and dialogue events.