So one message to the state umbrella list would go to all the subscribers of the lists for each state. The software calls the state umbrella list a parent list and the other lists child lists and sets up a hierarchical e mail structure so that one message to a parent list reaches all the people on the child lists and purges duplicates if some one is subscribed to more than one of the child lists. The federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration calls users of mental health services consumers. We use that same terminology which has become standard in behavioral health care. Consumers are people with psychiatric disabilities, people diagnosed with serious and persistent mental illness.
Consumers means mental health consumers.
We will reach out to the other mental health Internet resources and tell them we have Lyris software available and ask if they would like to use it with us and have an e mail discussion about a subject that interests them or to set up a support list, for instance for people who have depression. The Lyris e mail management software calls the people who administer or manage lists owners. There are tasks involved and it is useful to talk with other people doing a similar job. There are some technical things to learn and sometimes there are skills to learn about guiding the e mail discussions. The owner support list will be a discussion about these tasks.