(CLOSED) Evolve: What is Missing
What is missing from the draft of SAMHSA’s new home page?
SAMHSA recently posted a draft version of a new SAMHSA.gov home page (www.samhsa.gov/evolve) and we are looking for feedback about what might be missing. Using the forum below, let us know if there is any information, service or web functionality that you feel deserves to be highlighted as part of the new SAMHSA.gov home page. Suggestions can be narrow or broad but please provide as much specificity as your are able about your idea.
Please remember that the prototype presented on www.samhsa.gov/evolve is only a draft and that significant changes are likely to come. Information about how user feedback was used in the development of the draft page is on the SAMHSA Blog – Project Evolve: Another Step Forward (http://blog.samhsa.gov/2012/01/03/project-evolve-another-step-forward).
Please share widely and encourage everyone interested in SAMHSA’s work to participate.
This forum will close on 1/23/2012.
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More emphasis on emotional distress and less emphasis on "conditions and disorder"
The disease model of mental illness is not that strongly evidence based. Rather than having a conditions/disorders tab at the top, you could indicate something like, "What's bothering you?" The choices could be things like poor housing options, needing help with sleep or nutrition habits, need better employment opportunities, problems relating to my family, past overwhelming trauma experiences, more exercise advice, poor spiritual connections, grief, or trouble relating to my family. All of these things are much more strongly linked to emotional distress than the typical names we use for "conditions/disorders." The disease model tab could still be at the…
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Move the "I am a" above the fold
I really like the "I am a" section, and I think it should be moved higher on the page, maybe next the "Find Help" box. I don't think parents, teens, and family members will care as much about Data Spotlights as they will about information geared to their immediate needs.
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not addict friendly
in the box that states "I am", there is no choice for a person who is addicted or mentally ill (who is looking for help or information)
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"Medications"
A direct link to "Medications" could be separated out from "Prevention, Treatment, Recovery" or an additional button elsewhere.
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SAMSHA Acronym
Spelling out SAMSHA after the acronym at top of page would be good. I like the new layout, seems easier to navigate to a newcomer.
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"What's New?"
Link to new reports, etc
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In the 'you are' for family member, it may help to put "Family Member or Friend"
Identifying possible audiences, suggest including 'friend' with 'family member' -- as opening this to be broader will include a much larger audience - almost everyone has a friend..or is a friend, or trusts a friend, or wishes they were, or had one, and 'family' as conventionally defined precludes many people as a target. Unless 'Family' is defined as somethign like "a circle of mutual concern" that it is too narrow.
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Option for translation of site
Current format has nice option to trnaslate into Spanish. May want to include the Yahoo Bable Fish option that will convert site into 8 languages.
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spell out "FOIA" and "RSS"
researcher
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