— R.H. Sin, "I Hope This Reaches Her In Time"
Bloom Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to providing supportive services and resources to girls experiencing bullying.
Where most organizations aim to prevent bullying, it is still inevitable. Bloom provides solutions and tools to help students navigate before it happens, when it happens, and after it happens.
The goal behind Bloom Foundation is for every girl who is being bullied to know they are not alone.
#HEREWITHYOU
The first time I was bullied was in middle school. The girl I sat next to in math class created a username just to bully me online. The second time I was bullied was in college. Someone wrote my name, "Andi Long" and said discuss. I read over thirty comments on how I was fat, ugly, trash. I believed what they said and fell into depression and developed social anxiety. Over the years, I've grown and learned so much through the pain and now my heart is to share these lessons to younger girls experiencing bullying at a deeper, more intense level. If you are going through bullying, you are not alone and you are not what other people say about you. You are welcome to Bloom.
United by a common goal, the Bloom Team is comprised of individuals from all walks of life.
Andi Long — Founder
Malory Guenoune — Board of Directors
Loren Mittermiller — Board of Directors
Tiffany Erica McCain — Board of Directors
Stephanie Kircher — MFT Consultant
Kenni Roberson — Creative Director
Bloom Foundation's operational process can be easily broken down into a lifecycle comprised of four major key steps.
Bloom partners with different organizations and schools.
Bloom provides and trains partners with the program & curriculum.
Bloom and the partner organization conduct workshops together.
Students can join the Bloom Community after completing the program.
Bloom Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to providing supportive services and resources to girls experiencing bullying.
Currently, Bloom Foundation is geared towards females in between the ages of 12 and 18.
Bloom Foundation partners with schools, nonprofit organizations, churches, and after-school programs.
Bloom Foundation is based out of Orange County, but our reach expands all across Southern California.
If you would like to partner with Bloom, you can reach out to us and our founder Andi will be in touch with you. From there, we will discuss how to best fit the Bloom Curriculum into your current programs, along with discussions around logistics, timelines, budgets, and expectations for the partnership. After an agreement has been reached, Bloom will come to your location and conduct the curriculum workshops. For more info, please contact us at info@hellobloom.org or give us a call at (714) 880-4311.
The Bloom Curriculum is an 8-hour program that spans over the course of 8 weeks (1 hour per week). Each week covers a specific chapter and focus of the curriculum.
Listen and empathize. Don't try to fix it right away. Don't minimize what they're going through. Share your story. Say that no one should ever have to go through that.
Here is a video that discusses how you can best empathize with someone.
Here is an article that discusses things you shouldn't say to someone who is being bullied.
Teenage girl suicides are at a 40 year high as a result of bullying and self-hate. We are losing girls every day to bullying and depression.
Bloom Foundation feels that bullying is inevitable, and provides a focus on what is happening during and after bullying occurs. We feel this makes Bloom unique from a majority of bullying "prevention" focused organizations.
Bloom aims to be a readily available resource that can provide support immediately for girls experiencing bullying. We would like to partner with non-profit organizations, churches, and after school programs, as well as provide trainings on how to respond and address bullying.
Bloom plans to reach its goals by sharing the resource to anybody who needs it, as well as through networking and contact-sharing, donating and fundraising, social media campaigns, partnerships, and reaching out to influential people to advocate.
Teenage girl suicides are at a 40 year high. We are losing girls every day to bullying and depression. We need to step in and intervene. By stepping in today, we can change a life that might have otherwise been lost. Join our efforts to change the trajectory of someone’s life.
