Toby House, Inc.

To say the least, the world of mental health services here in Maricopa County is in a bit of chaos these days. We are at the close of the first quarter and a workable contract has yet to be seen for us at Toby House, Inc. There are some central issues around it all but securing funding levels which adequately reflect the cost of doing business are at the core. Our continuing to subsidize the RBHA in order to keep services available is ended. It is clearly now time for profiteering to be minimized and for support of quality services to be maximized.

There are numerous issues surrounding the world of the mentally ill. Some are well known - stigma, quality services, research, treatment modalities. Others are less well known but no less important as having impact on mental illness. These might include questions about how services are provided, how they are funded and what are some of the hidden barriers to accessing services. It is hoped to discuss these issues and perhaps, while opening up discussion, shedding some light on approaches to solutions.
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This is the first of a number of blog entries that I am going to make about the role of Technology at Toby House. I am going to make this post 'stick' to the front page for a while until others start putting up their own purposeful blog entries.

I plan to cover the following topics individually and will provide links to the pages when I do create them.

Pretty neat. Just wanted to test this "blog" thing, as I have never done it before. I'm not understanding the purpose of it, exactly, but I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually. It looks as though the only purpose of opening an account is to post a blog. Is that correct? Are other features going to be available to account users?

I'm quite sure that some people are asking that question and it's a reasonable question to ask. I would expect that most people who are not avid Internet users would ask that question.

I have essentially duplicated all of the static content that is on www.tobyhouse.com onto this web site and it is my hope that we shut it down and drive all of that traffic to this web site. The web site that is presently www.tobyhouse.com is static, it has no capacity for change with the exception of instructing someone technically inclined to make the changes and appearance changes require a complete makeover which is time consuming and costly if you get a professional web designer. But it's the static part that is the problem.

We are progressing to a new stage and a new design for our web site. The hope is that it will become not only a source of information but will also accomplish another goal - that of serving to better connect us the surrounding community and the broader community beyond . By more broadly sharing, we hope to engender a greater interest in our work and perhaps a greater willingness to invest in our efforts.

To listen to the broadcast from KJZZ from March 14, 2007 on Mental Health Issues, Click Here

When you add content, you probably would want to create a 'blog' entry. A page entry is typically for static content that is fastened into place somewhere.

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