if me is a community for mental health experiences that encourages people to share their personal stories with trusted allies. Trusted allies are the people we interact with on a daily basis, including friends, family members, co-workers, teachers, and mental health workers.
Dealing with mental health is what makes us human. But for a lot of us, it's a struggle to be open about it. Not everyone is a counsellor or therapist. The people who we interact with everyday shape our emotions and behavior. Getting them involved in mental health treatment is the key to recovery.
We're built and maintained by volunteers of many different backgrounds and skill sets.We're always looking for ideas from everyone, including mental health advocates, health professionals, software developers, and user experience designers!
We use the wonderful Contributor Covenant for our code of conduct. Please read it before joining our project.
- Allow users to write about their experiences (Moments) similar to a blog and get feedback and support from their allies
- Create personalized categories and moods to organize Moments and Strategies
- Develop and share Strategies to solve problems and maintain healthy self-care goals
- Keep track of medications and create alerts for them
- Create support groups whether online or offline and keep track of sessions
Check out our projects page to see what we are currently working on. Check our wiki for a summary of existing features.
We've formalized processes for contributing as a designer, developer, writer, and user tester. We're an open and evolving project, so if you don't see your interested role, please let us know and we will work with you to create it!
The first task to do is to email us and tell us about yourself and what you're interested in working on. We'll send you an invitation to join our Slack team. This is our primary communication tool. Julia Nguyen, our founder, will plan out with you what you'll be working on.
Please check out our GitHub issues for tasks to work on! Stories labelled with design are relevant to designers. Any future issues should also use this label too!
Many of our developer tasks will require designer collaboration, please use Slack for communication. We also have a public #design channel.
Please check out our README for step-by-step instructions on how to setup up our Ruby on Rails app locally.
You must also read these sections in order to contribute:
Please sign up for a account on our official site, if-me.org. Use the app for a couple of days before raising issues or filing bugs. You can raise issues on our GitHub issues page or through Feedback Google Form (the link can also be found on our site footer). Please raise any discussions on Slack!
Please join our #socialmedia channel on Slack! We post amazing content all over social media:
Bee Martinez is our social media manager. She curates all over our social media channels and will work with you to create your content!
As well as new and original content, we also accept content that has already been published.
We also welcome financial contributions in full transparency on our open collective. Anyone can file an expense. If the expense makes sense for the development of the community, it will be "merged" in the ledger of our open collective by the core contributors and the person who filed the expense will be reimbursed.
We also have a Patreon page where you can give monthly donations.
Thank you to our Patreon backers Rob Drimmie, Joseph D. Marhee, and Carol Willing!
Thank you to all our open collective backers! Become a backer!
Thank you to all our sponsors! (please ask your company to also support this open source project by becoming a sponsor)
