From my experience a BBS is an excellent venue for this type
of thing. You may want to consider a 2 tier system. One
would require that users are verified before being given
access. This would allow greater control and, most
importantly, greater freedom for users to express their
issues. The second tier would not require validation and
would provide access to people who have a hard time opening
up to ANYONE. The 2 level setup doesn't always work,
though, so this needs to be thought out.
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>>Greetings. I am the founder and pricipal of a
non-profit organization that focuses on helping people
facing serious health challenges find meaning, value, and
purpose in their lives. I've been doing this in my surgical
practice starting 30 years ago and I created supportive
groups (called HOPE Groups) for this purpose in 1987. We
know how therapeutically valuable this work is and how to
share and replicate it. We now wish to submit it to clinical
study. As a part of the program, we will be training people
how to do this work and will need to keep in touch with them
and their institutions to support them with our lengthy
experience. We feel that the Internet is a vital part of
providing this service, and wonder whether a BBS (like
Vision Quest), a blog, and/or a Yahoo group would be the
best for closed, password- protected ongoing forums and
individual consultations.>>
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