The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Uses
Extranet User Manager

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada's leading addiction and mental health teaching hospital and research facility. CAMH succeeds in transforming the lives of people affected by addiction and mental illness, by applying the latest in scientific advances, through integrated clinical practice, health promotion, education and research.Problemgambling.ca is an online community supported by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). This web site contains information about problem gambling for individuals concerned about their own, or someone else’s gambling. ProblemGambling.ca also provides an online space for professionals to exchange knowledge and resources about problem gambling.

The Envision IT Solution

Envision IT created a new public website for CAMH’s Problem Gambling Project, which launched in 2008 and underwent several subsequent updates. The site employs a simple framework for developing collaborative sub-sites and it is accessed by organizations, the general public and professionals in the field.  The website leverages the Web Content Management features of SharePoint and features an extranet site. Read more about the solution here.

Extranet User Manager

When the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health was redesigning their public website, one of their primary goals was to reach out to a disparate group of users.  Their first Extranet was www.problemgambling.ca, and is intended for problem gamblers themselves, friends and family, and researchers and health care professionals. The site is available to the general public and contains a wealth of information for anonymous users.  With the addition of the Extranet User Manager, the site allows all types of users such as Researchers, Provincial partners, Government employees and problem gambling organizations outside Ontario to self-register securely log into the site. For certain groups an account validation process allows them access to private treatment professional resources.  Their next Extranet was http://knowledgex.camh.net.  Here the goal is to connect researchers and treatment professionals across the field of addiction and mental health. The Extranet User Manager provides simpler password changes and retrieval, and easier management of users by non-IT staff.