Children's Mental Health Ontario (CMHO) represents Ontario's publicly funded child and youth mental health centres. Their Parents and Caregivers for Mental Health program supports parents and caregivers raising children with mental health challenges - offering peer support, webinars and a trusted resource hub. To save on costs, this nonprofit uses WordPress along with Document Library Pro to organize and share those resources.
The challenge: a laundry list that added stress instead of relieving it
Before Document Library Pro, the resource page was little more than a long, unstructured list. For parents already under pressure, scrolling through that kind of page was the last thing they needed.
"We wanted to make it as easy as possible for families to find what they're looking for," said Taylor Salisbury, Communications Specialist at CMHO. "With the modules we had, it was very laundry-list style. We didn't have a great solution to organize it or make things easy to search."
The solution: a searchable, filterable resource library
Taylor set up Document Library Pro and paired it with FacetWP to create a resource hub where visitors can filter by topic and find relevant resources in seconds. The setup was intuitive, and Barn2's tutorials helped the team get started quickly.
The real impact, though, came from how the library changed day-to-day work. CMHO's volunteer peer support facilitators can now filter the library by topic, copy the URL and send it directly to a family - so the resources they need are already selected when they open the link.
It's been life changing, actually. We're a nonprofit with a very limited budget, and we don't have budget to hire a web developer. The plugin was affordable enough for us and still had that same level of impact. It's been a true game changer for our program.
Taylor Salisbury, Communications Specialist at CMHO
The results: more traffic, better support
Since launching the resource hub, CMHO has seen a significant uptick in website traffic to the page. Feedback from families and volunteers has been overwhelmingly positive - both for the ease of navigation and the professional look of the library.
"I would absolutely recommend it," said Taylor. "Our teams are small and limited, and being able to leverage something that's already been packaged up and is sort of plug-and-play has been incredible."
Why nonprofits choose Document Library Pro
If your nonprofit or community organization needs to share resources with the people you serve, this case study shows what's possible - even on a limited budget and without a developer. Document Library Pro gives small teams the tools to build something that looks and works like a custom build.