Welcome to Bloom

Bloom is a free, secure, and web-based trauma healing support service from Chayn. Since 2013, Chayn has reached over 500,000 survivors worldwide with our trauma-informed, survivor-centred, and intersectional approaches in utilizing open-source tech for positive social impact. Bloom is our flagship product — providing tailored video-based courses, anonymous interaction, 1:1 chat, self-led healing guidance, everyday tools, and comfort to cope with traumatic events.

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Key Features:

Chayn's Bloom service offers several key features designed to support individuals on their healing journey:

• Free and Anonymous: Bloom is a free service that ensures anonymity for its users.
• Self-Paced Activities and Exploration: Users can explore all resources and activities at their own pace.
• Multi-lingual Support: All features are available in multiple languages including Spanish, Hindi, French, English, Portuguese, and German.
• Online Video Courses: Provides healing educational video courses.
• 1-to-1 Messaging: Secure messaging service to share reflections, feelings, and questions with Chayn therapists.
• Supportive Messaging: Receive tailored supportive messaging from Chayn through Whatsapp.

Bloom Backend Technical Documentation

Technologies Used:

• NestJS - NodeJs framework for building scalable and reliable server-side applications
• PostgreSQL - Object-relational SQL database system
• TypeORM - Object Relational Mapper library
• Firebase - User authentication
• Storyblok - Headless CMS for pages and courses content
• Simplybook - Appointment booking system used for therapy
• Slack - Slack webhooks to send messages to the team
• Rollbar - Error reporting
• Front - User messaging
• Mailchimp - Transactional email
• Docker - Containers for api and db
• Render - Build, deploy and operate staging and production apps
• GitHub Actions - CI pipeline
• ESLint and Prettier for linting and formatting.

Read our Bloom Backend Tech Wiki Docs for overviews of key concepts and data & database architecture.

Local Development Directions:

Making an open-source contribution you have agreed to our Code of Conduct.

• See docs/local-development.md to get started.
• New contributors should start with our Contribution Guidelines.
• See docs/courses-sessions-and-resources.md for how courses, sessions and resources are synced and tracked.

Happy coding! ⭐

Support Our Work

Chayn is proudly open-source and built with volunteer contributions. We are grateful for the generosity of the open-source community.

Please consider giving this repository a star ⭐ and follow our GitHub profile to help us grow our open-source community and find more contributors like you!

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Licence

Bloom and all of Chayn's projects are open source. The core tech stack included here is open source however some external integrations used in the project require subscriptions.