SubCommunities to develop over the next few weeks/ Months
Over the past few months, we have worked hard to tighten our existing subcommunities, forum categories and group rooms. We have done a lot of reorganizing. We did surveys to better understand how to best label certain topics to ensure all users know what they communities were for and what kind of support could be done there. It has been incredible to watch and be part of. I am extremely proud of what we have accomplished together - it represents a lot of teamwork.
Our work reorganizing and tightening up our forums will be ongoing. However, in the next 1-4 months, wed like to develop some more topic based subcommunities with your help! Yay! Some will be to match the needs of our growing community - they are topics suggested by our community. Others will be created in conjunction with partnerships. You can think of the partnership communities similar to NAMI Support. The partner organization provides additional resources to help build the community space up, but the subcommunity is free for all. They are spaces run by our community for our community, with our values, systems and volunteers. Partner organizations link to these spaces and use our site as a resource for their population. It is a win-win for everyone!
There are many people that are served by other agencies across the world. One easy way to reach them is through these agencies. Going forward we will be partnering with other nonprofits and social good organizations to provide help to their members. In that pursuit, we will be creating subcommunities on the topics their members would benefit from. This definitely does not take away from the fact that we will continue to build communities 7 Cups users request and advocate for.
The names of these communities are still undecided, but the topics include:
1) Self-Esteem & Body Image - Teen Only Subcommunity (locked to users under 18 and approved adults)
2) Transitional Age Youth/ Foster Care Support
3) Older adults - 50 +
4) Family Support
5) Veterans Support (more info on this new topic here)
** Now.... my question!? Do any of the topics listed above interest you? Do you want to help out!? Show your interest by filling out this form and letting us know!
As a reminder, we do not launch subcomunities without a baseline of participation - to get this process started, we will be taking the following steps:
1) volunteer/ leadership recruitment.
- getting some new folks applying for forum support & starting on their forum journey
- Getting some new folks applying for group mod
2) Make a post in the community sharing these ideas and collecting feedback on how our users would like to see these get build/ community brainstorming/ feedback.
3) Create any new forum categories, move any existing threads/ subforums into these spaces and create and new threads based on the feedback we get in point 2. Let the new supporters/ volunteers take ownership of these spaces for some time. Build up some base engagement.
We define base engagement as -
Ideally 8-15 posts per day for 2 consecutive weeks
5+ regular forum participants
1 regular group support discussion per week for a minimum of 2 consecutive weeks
@Laura Super excited to see this! Just 2 things: with Family Support coming up, does this mean Friends, Family & Caregivers will change to just Caregivers? (cc @MistyMagic ) Also, on that form Support Team Teen Star is listed as correspinding with Support Session Leader rather than Support Team Leader :3
I feel like its a good idea ! Im exited for it !
@friendlyGirl952
what is it about
Now that I've gotten my teen badge restored, I've signed up to help out with the self-esteem/body image subcommunity--but I was just curious whether there's any particular reason you're planning for that one to be teen-only? I know there are certainly a lot of teens who struggle with self-esteem, but isn't it an issue for a lot of adults as well?
@joshcrs101395
We already have a sexual health category with puberty as a subforum, as well as a motivation and self help category with self esteem as a subforum.
Regarding this particular proposed category, i imagine it was inspire by the teen community demand for more teen locked spaces
@MonBon
Hi, You say there already is a sexual health category, but I can't find it when I look in the forum categories or in the search bar. Could you give the link for it ?
Beside, when we can check different categories in the listener profile, there isn't one about sexuality / sexual health. I can see parenting and MOGII, but nothing specific to sexuality. Do you think it could be something interesting to add or maybe it's already covered in the different other sections ?
Thanks :)
@Olweg
here you go! Sexual health is a category led by @Anomalia and @Keanan
I like the idea of making it more clear that sexual health issues are allowed! I would recommend submitting it to our listener suggestion box
Please let me know if there's anything else I can help you find :)
@joshcrs101395 its under the Teen section i believe thats why
@CaringBrit - I believe his question was why it is under the teen section as opposed to being a space for teens and adults, given that it's a topic that many adults could benefit from as well and that isn't necessarily outgrown when someone turns 18. :)
@Laura It is a pleasure to see the 7cups community growing. I have applied to help out in the Self-esteem and Veteran areas - I am also glad to see you will be probably choosing some dedicated people who haven't yet had a chance to fully have support roles in the community. This is a great opportunity, thank you.
@SoulfullyAButterfly
Great thank you!!
@Laura
Great idea, love it!
@Laura correct me if I am mistaken, but don't we already have one for 50 and older? I believe I've been in that one myself.
@inventiveHouse2965
Currently we have a 35+ community but not a 50+ community. If you have thoughts on how we should approach that (should we keep them together, should we add more discussion topics, should we age lock the subcommunity, etc) you can give us that feedback here
@MonBon perhaps I was wrong about it being a subcommunity... it is a forum, but this is what I was talking about... "50sconnectwithothersintheir50s"
@inventiveHouse2965 @MonBon
inventiveHouse2965, we are working on getting a team together and moving the 50+ stuff from the 35+ section. I was told this morning that it might be in August for the split however I don't know an exact month and date for sure becasue it is still in the planning phase. I will be starting weekly 50+ check-ins thou so we are moving forward trying to get this setup on 7cups.
@DanaMH
Thank you for the update and the legwork Dana!
@Laura good new choices!
It's amazing to see the community growing and to be able to become a part of it. Signed up to help with the Self-Esteem & Body Image Community! ♡
@Laura would be very glad if their was one for foster care support :)
