CNMHC regional website as a self help, recovery, advocacy and overcoming stigma tool.

PowerPoint presented With some time for Q&A—90

minutes long

Target audiences of this presentation

Are individual consumers, consumer-run businesses and consumer advocates.

Attendees do not need any special knowledge of internet but should be familiar with the computer

and using email.

About the presenter:Chuck Hughes is a

consumer activist based in Santa Barbra. He has

served consumers on MH, MHSA as well as

Community based organizations panels and committees. He is also the current web manager of

the CNMHC South Region, CNMHC Far South Region

and CNMHC Far North websites and the web master of a number of

consumer Yahoo Groups.

At South Region meeting ‘08

At protest and rally in Los Angeles, January 16, 2009

After completing this workshop, attendees will be able to

Understand reasons and benefits of using the CNMHC regional sites as advocacy and recovery tools.

Have the skills to orchestrate and strategize your advocacy efforts as well as networking with an audience of your peers on the CNMHC interactive web site.

Be able to quickly and easily:

find CNMHC Regional sites on search engines. navigate and find useful information on CNMHC

Regional sites.enter content on CNMHC Regional sites

use Far North discussion forums add events to calendar suggest page content and corrections

How to find CNMHC Far North site

Using the term “cnmhc” On Google add the term “south”

Will place SR on the top 3 returns

Will also place SR on the top 3 returns

On Search CNMHC south region

Bookmark it! Once on your site depress key

F-6

Then click on down arrow for a drop down bookmark menu

HOME PAGE First line is our organization name

The network of care header is on most Far North Region pages.

There is a row of links to all the

pages on the site

There is a description of who we

There is the CNMHC logo

The most Important News Alerts are posted on this page

There is a Google search box on most South Region pages

There are also links to county information

Second line boldly proclaims our

region

There is a link on all pages to the Clients network

main site

Notes of last years Far North Regional Training and Elections

Navigating the pages

On the left hand side of each page are rows of links leading to more informative pages packed full of useful information.

A MH news aggregatorWith link to braking news

Links to current local and national Consumer advocacy article and issues

Information about national forums that you need to know

Message Boards page

Link to Far North Region Message boards on Network of Care

Link to State wide Yahoo! Groups

A participant button

Any one that lands on this South Region sit can participate on this NC message board

Links to CNMHC social networking sites CNMHC on Facebook Twitter

Each Topic has its own page

Message board on FN Website

The first message is on top

Replies are indented & listed below the original message

New subjects are listed below in chronological order

& are un-indented

You can get there by linking from Far Rorth Region site or by use the search term cnmhc on Yahoo! Groups

CNMHC on Yahoo Groups

You can read informative messages that other have posted with out joining. However to send messages you must first Join Y!Gs and FOV group.You join by clicking on the join button.

How to enter content on the Far Northregion site!

Look for this bottom on some of the pages. It allows you to inter events on the sits calendar section and participate on South region Discussion boards.

This is a participate button

After clicking on the participate you get a sigh in box

New users click New User tab

New user registration formNew users to a Network of Care are required to fill out and submitting a registration form only once.

If you forget your pass word a new one will be

emailed to you by Network of Care.

You may create a personal profile that others can see.

(Optional)

This form should take less than 2 minuets to fill out and submit

After joining Network of Care you can participate on the South Region website members must fill out one more form before you can add content on the South region site.

This form should take less than 30 secants to fill out

Policy SettingsThe South Region website is currently set so consumer leaders, after being approved by regional Coordinator, may publish content directly to pages. Leaders also have the ability to approve content that is suggested by other regional members.

In response FN uses a remote hosted colander where all members can access and enter events on.

On Network of care websites only site administrators are allowed to add events to calendars.

Additionally FN utilizes Yahoo! Groups discussion boards that are limited to consumers.

Anyone who lands on any NoC Message Boards are allowed to post messages

To add content to a page click on Edit this page

The same page will come up in editing format

Say you want to add to the Empowerment Alerts on

the home page

Then you decide where you want

the post to paper

First you click on

Then you click on edit this page

Click where you want the posting to appear

Then click the done button it will take you to a layout page

Click on a Layout you want to use for your posting

Once you have clicked on the layout you want for your posting, the Publish Content page will appear. Here you can publish your information to your layout, thus to your posting and your web site.

This page guides you through publishing your

content through text entry fields.

Fill out the publishing form.Based on the layout you have chosen, a

publishing form will be crated to allow you to type in text or upload images and files.

Enter text for your posting

Attach a fill to your posting

Enter a posting name

Enter a caption for your file

Enter a title

Click continue to view the posting you just made

Click done to take you to the page that you just entered a now posting on

The importance of CNMHC using the internet….

just why does SR need a web site?

Information is key to empowerment…Most expect to find information online….

Information that consumers seek….Many now turn to the Internet first…

More consumers now have access to computers than ever before

Retail markets are becoming saturated with old desktop and laptop computers, many Wellness Centers and Recovery Centers are providing computers to their clients. Advocacy support centers funded through MHSA also provide computer access.

Most states now have consumer

Empowerment web sites. Soon,

CNMHC will have consumer

interactive websites for each region.

Who uses the Internet More MH Clients are online all the time……

“With over 60% of Wellness Centers now having

Internet access and 40% of Consumers having been online for more than three years, the

Internet has become a mainstream Advocacy and information tool.”

Consumers, Activists and Advocates

Van, Consumer at large in Santa Barbara’s Peer Recovery

Center

About Trilogy; hosting company for our web site

CNMHC Far North Regional Internet site is a highly

interactive, single information place where Mental Health

consumers, can go to easily access a wide variety of

important information. The resources in this "virtual

community" include a fast, comprehensive

Consumer/Survivor Resource Directory; links to pertinent Web sites from across the

nation; comprehensive, easy-to-use consumer message boards; a political advocacy

tool; and many others.

Network of Care is sponsored by an innovation

grant from the State of California in partnership with

county governments and Trilogy Integrated Resources

Inc

Reaching Consumer/Survivors

When thinking about reaching people,

we can’t ignore the computer.

Regional interactive web sites like the

Far North’s can be global meeting

place where clients from all parts of the region can come together.

Connecting with other CNMHC Members in your area….

When an event comes up in your county or region, any member

can share that information online in

minutes…

California Network of Mental Health Clients

have developed regional interactive web

sites.

The

Far North Region site is at:

http://www.localcommunities.org/lc/CNMHCFarNorth

This is an interactive web site. If you are a consumer or past consumer of MH services in California Far North Region you may add text that you want to appear on some of our web site: First click on the "Participate" button. Sign in or create a user name and pass word. A form will open. Now choose the "Edit Posting" button just underneath the text you want your posting to appear. Click here for Click here for tutorial

To the left is the center and bottom of the Far North interactive web site

news aggregator that scans thousands of newspapers and

journals every hour for articles with the search terms:

Mental Health Advocacy in them. It posts the four most recent articles on the to the

Far North web site.

Top articles of interest nationally are posted to the Commentaries pageThen can be voted in by FN membersKeeping the content to the members preferences

Commentaries page

Two FN message boards… 1. FN General discussions… 2. FN Speak out Forum…. links to CNMHC official Y!G… and to State wide clients Y!G… as well as to a National Clients Message board… Also there is a link to

California Network of Mental Health Clients (CNMHC) On facebook Social networking platform

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