The system provides a place for loved ones of persons with a serious mental illness a place to ask questions, get referrals and share their experiences with others.

The technical aspects of the project include a confidentiality-enhanced login system, spam control, friendly reminders to inactive members, and complete French (as well as English) language support at the option of the user. The multi-language interface includes separate formatting and content design details specific to each language, including sponsor logos. The project marketing is also handled by Tailored Tech, including opt-in family resource email newsletters and a calendar of in-person support event. The entire project is managed with excellent evaluation and under budget.

Has your organization located funding for a project, but you don’t have the internal capacity to get it up and running? Tailored Tech can help with project implementation,  management and assessment support.

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Tailored Tech (formerly Sophia Kelly Data Web and Project Consulting) has been involved with the ReachOut psychosis project almost since it’s inception. As project manager, Sophia Kelly has coordinated rapid expansion of the program, which provides important early intervention education to psychosis onset age youth, embedded in a rock concert and spoken word presentation. The program reaches over 24000 youth per year with information that helps get young people with emerging psychosis to medical help fast. Early medical treatment has been shown to dramatically improve outcomes for this condition. In addition to the Programs of Excellence award, a video about the project ( http://www.reachoutpsychosis.com ) was featured at the 6th International Conference on Early Psychosis October 22-24 in Melbourne, Australia.

Tailored Tech manages program staff, conducts program planning, and evaluation and provides  communications and marketing services, including print, stage and web media for this project. Our client, the BC Schizophrenia Society, is provided with a high-quality, continually evaluated and improved program, on budget and meetingor exceeding project goals.

The program deliverables included guides, procedures and forms for program coordinators and volunteers. Sophia  Kelly also oversaw the piloting of this highly successful program in four regions in BC in the spring of 2006. NEW: This program has now been adopted in several regions in BC, and is being considered in other parts of Canada and in New Zealand. See www.buddy.bcss.org for more details.

Materials were designed to be easily adapted and included emailable evaluation materials. The logic model diagram for the program shows how the assessment of the program was built in to the structure. Here’s a link to the complete program materials.