Well Minded

The main goal of the project is to create a space where people can get information about free support towards their mental health. The platform is meant to gather charities, free support groups, and free resources in the same place as at the moment, finding accessible professional support can be challenging. This fact may be discouraging for people who are already struggling and are trying to find alternative professional support, as there are many users who have tried clinical settings and are looking for a therapeutic safe space. The platform can be used by people dealing with mental health issues or people from their support network. As the website will gather organisations, users will be redirected to the contact of these.

For the website to have an emphasis on mental health and to advocate this, it would need to have additional information. This would imply having resources displayed on the website, free courses, and specialised blogs that people can find helpful.

Building a website that is easy to navigate is an important addition in order for it to be user friendly. This would mean allowing the user to search for the organisations and resources based on the type of support offered, keywords, and location.

In line with it being easy to navigate, it is meant to be a view-only website, users being able to access it without having to log in. However, in order to be up to date and easy to manage, it should have an admin login and it will also accept suggestions that would only be approved by admin.

Since Well-minded is meant to be a point of refuge for people facing mental health challenges it is important to make it available to everyone by taking into account website accessibility and implementing appropriate design and functionality.

In conclusion, Well-minded is a user-friendly platform meant to promote free of charge professional mental health support and link users with appropriate means of support.

Objectives and functionality:

The main objective of the platform is to promote mental health by connecting users with appropriate free mental health services. In order to underpin this goal, the website is aiming to:

‣ Display a list of charities offering free professional support. ‣ Connect users with professional blogs and courses that would help them have an insight on mental health. ‣ Be easy to navigate and accesible. ‣ Be able to accept user feedback and sugestions.

Extensive details can be found in this spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IGO0l0Agk4cjSxyAzKUOR74ghyhvfep72m80r9N6jcU/edit#gid=904111712

training

this training is first stpes for following development and do it first .

• as training we will all work on this readme file.

• these parts are missing from this file:

  • description
  • objectives and functionality
  • references and useful links.

• we want each one of you spend 10 mins doing the following:

1. clone the project to your local environment.
2. chose part you want to work on.
3. create branch with meaningfull name, eg. readme-description.
4. update the readme file
5. commit changes.
6. push to this repo and make a pull request.
7. make sure your comparing to staging.
8. review your teams code
9. when a PR getting reviewed and accepted we are going to merge to staging
10. in our weekly meeting we discuss the stuff in staging and merge it to master