• Learn about options for end-of-life services and care
• Implement plans to ensure wishes are honored
• Voice decisions to family, friends and healthcare providers
• Engage in personal or community efforts to improve end-of-life care

FREE RESOURCES

They provide a number of free resources on their website at CaringInfo.org, including:

• State-specific advance directives
• Easy to read publications on these and other topics:
  • Talking about end-of-life wishes
  • Supporting someone who is grieving
  • Caring for your loved ones
  • Talking to your doctor about pain or illness
  • Understanding hospice and palliative care services
  • Paying for long-term care
  • Caring for a seriously ill child

HelpLine – 800-658-8898

Knowledgeable and compassionate people to:

• Provide a compassionate ear and answer questions on end-of-life issues;
• Provide a variety of free consumer brochures, state-specific advance directives and contact information for community services.

Multilingual Line – 877-658-8896

Bi-lingual staff are available to assist callers with end-of-life care issues and send free materials in Spanish and Mandarin Chinese on a variety of end-of-life topics.

For convenience, each local chapter of cybercasemanager has a link to the Vitalrec.com website on the Resource Links page, under the category “Identification (IDs)”.

For convenience, each local chapter of cybercasemanager has a link to the Fact Sheets on Drug Abuse and Addiction, located in the “Addiction Tx” section of the Resource Links page.

This online service allows a highly customized search for treatment facilities in your area.  You can search in terms of what types of services are provided (detox, methadone maintenance, half-way house, etc.), what type of delivery is provided (inpatient/outpatient, long-term/short-term residential, day treatment, etc.), what type of populations the program is geared toward (adolescents, seniors, pregnant women, DUI offenders, criminal justice clients, etc.), forms of payment accepted (medicaid, medicare, private insurance, self payment. etc.), types of payment assistance available, and even for options in what language treatment is offered.

Search results include a map of the local area to assist in determining which options are closest to your client’s location, as well as addresses, contact information, and other details.

A direct link to this service is located on the Resource Links tab, under the Addiction Tx category, along with other resources that may be helpful.

The feature is fully operational but will be considered “Beta” until we receive a certain level of feedback from our users to evaluate the functionality.  In the future we would like to provide SMS functionality for each cybercasemanager.com localization.  Check it out at the Cincinnati website, and let us know what you think.

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If you have any questions about how to use this option, use the link below to discuss it in the user-support forums.  If you have any questions about sponsoring a local contributor account, see the “Add Your City!” page, on the navigation bar at the top of this page.

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I’m very proud to introduce a new feature at cybercasemanager.com that will improve the coordination and collaboration of local service agencies, social workers, and care providers, while advancing our additional mission goal to provide linguistically sensitive materials. Effective immediately, all of cybercasemanager’s metropolitan locations have multilingual support.

To see this technology in action, simply click on one of international flags in the left-hand footer, representing the various languages into which cybercasemanager.com can now be translated.  By clicking on one of the flags, the entire web site is immediately translated into the language requested.  This even includes the case management forum topics and posts, no matter what language was used to initially post the information within these forums.

“Universal translators” (to use an old star trek term) have been around a number of years now; what makes our present development so significant is how easy it is to use today. With a single click of a button, visitors now have access to our entire website in 42 different languages.  This is a huge asset in improving the delivery system of local resources in our growing metropolitan communities.

The 42 languages available are as follows: Italian, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Portuguese, English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, Russian, Greek, Dutch, Bulgarian, Czech, Croatian, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Norwegian, Catalan, Filipino, Hebrew, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Albanian, Hungarian, Turkish, Thai, Maltese, Galician, Estonian, and Vietnamese.

Check it out! Registration to share information on the cybercasemanager is free, and now, with multilingual support, reaches more people.  If you have not registered, do so today, and start spreading the wealth of knowledge you’ve gained over the years as a local service provider or recipient.

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Hi, my name is Stefan Densmore, founder of Cybercasemanager Enterprises. Those familiar with cybercasemanager.com from the beginning have seen a lot of changes to the website over the years. From its simple beginnings as a single page listing frequently used Cincinnati Mental Health internet links, the enterprise has taken off to host a variety of additional resources and has even expanded to include Chicago, Illinois. A significant milestone has been reached with the most recent launch, which I’d like to take a moment to discuss.

One of the first things you may notice is that cybercasemanager.com no longer defaults to the Cincinnati localization, but instead leads here, to this administrative blog. The thinking behind this was that the front end of the web site should be set aside to highlight the mission objectives of cybercasemanager, detail progress on those objectives, and invite peer review.

This format also allows the city localizations to stay what they are, as an online knowledge base of local resources, rather than the resource deficient corporate publicity billboard that most websites for social services unfortunately have become. So this will be the billboard, in all its stuffiness, you can check in as often as you like, or completely ignore it by making a bookmark for a direct link to the localization of interest.

For the past year, behind the scenes, we have been experimenting with a powerful new engine for our Content Management System (CMS). Code-named Cybermu, the new CMS is an installation of the open source semantic publishing platform wordpress mu (pronounced mew, like a cat). We chose to use the same open source solution to handle content management as that used by Harvard University, The New York Times, and Le Monde. The new mu engine enables multiple (literally hundreds of thousands of) integrated sub-installations, which is of particular usefulness to the cybercasemanager enterprise, given the ability to easily add new cities as our model grows.

Aside from the new look, and the addition of forums, the Cincinnati website is basically the same.  The Chicago website, however, has seen a major overhaul. Before the changeover, the Chicago website had not seen an upgrade of their system in years; they were still operating from the simple list of frequently used resource links that defined the earliest version of cybercasemanager. They now have the full functionality afforded to the Cincinnati website.

As mentioned before, the transition to the wordpress mu engine allows us to easily add new cities, with these full features, at very little overhead. With interest and support from users like you, we hope to add more cities to cybercasemanger.com in the coming years. If you’d like to help, please visit our “Support Us” page, and take a couple minutes to review the number of ways you can be involved.

We have also opened up the administrative management of the site, in a grassroots fashion, for case managers, doctors, social workers, nurses, and other direct service providers to join our board of advisors. This is a big experiment, no doubt about it, and unprecedented as far as I know. See the “Board of Advisors” page to fill out the online application if you are interested.