1. Enable a consumer-directed regional planning process and service delivery system
2. Expand Consumer-operated services and programs
3. Establish regional consumer ombudsmen
5. Increase capacity for providing recovery-based educational opportunities
6. Develop a pilot program for consumers using assistive technology & EPAT
7. Interactive Website to be used by all stakeholders
About this Wiki
Introduction
A wiki is a web based software tool typically used for collaborative writing and documentation.
Some well known examples of Wiki use are wikipedia.org, wiktionary.org and applications like
Jerry's Spin
Jerry intends wiki as a bottom up approach to getting feedback on the process and services in the region without doing a lot of FocusGroups which treat consumers/ survivors like subjects instead of people...
Wikis for Comparision
Various versions of wiki software exist, and PBWiki is considered to be one of the easiest to use.
There are more powerful wikis in the technical sense which are open source and allow modification and different hosting options, but ease of use was considered paramount for this 'population' ;-/
NoVAPeers.PBWiki.com is a baby wiki...
Your contributions of content will help it grow...And like babies, it might need to be fed as well ;-/
The diapers (required on some of the worst amongst the >275 pages) are another matter ;-/
Example NoVAPeer pages
Some of the more developed (and/or technically interesting) pages in this wiki include:
New Point-and-Click WYSIWYG pages
Very Experimental Chat
Page Statistics
with page views on a lot of the newer pages and recently edited pages
Calendar
Research
Learning more about state education for peers and the glass ceiling on educationing consumers (Bachelor's maximum degree for DRS funding, etc but average education + cost of living in the area is much higher...)
Peer Program Chart & Peer-Program-Chart-Page2
provide a way of looking at missing components of peer run programs in the area, while Agape may not be technically Consumer Run, but largely church & family though influenced...
Pages
Older Pages
See also
Tags
for some scoring of the better / worse pages needing updating, techniques used, etc
JerrySpeak Writing Examples ;-/
Trip Reports
Conference photography, How NOT to Do It
Policy
BFLHOpeningGroupPhotoBehindTheScenes
Artwork
Page History
20070425 Jerry Fix typos/ misspelling? Adding some of the better writing as content? categorizing some of the volume of stuff up here...
20061222 Jerry adding some page structure
20061213 Jerry
- Adding newer pages, list is not complete but give an idea of some of the better pages here, while many pages are definitions that need to be combined in to Glossary with a linking mechanism...
20060925 Jerry Short page referring to other pages for SideBar use
Page Statistics
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since 20070129
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