Empowering people in shelters with creative workforce development & innovative economic opportunities

We train shelter residents and shelter staff on providing economic opportunities for people with lived experience of homelessness, mental health, substance use & refugee lived experience

CanRise Vision

CanRise vision is to fully integrate people/person with lived experience into the workforce.

CanRise Mission

CanRise mission to provide creative and innovative economic opportunities for people with lived experience.

CanRise provides training, creates personalized employment pathways for people with lived experience of homelessness, mental health, substance use and refugee lived experience.

CanRise also provides training for shelter staff and shelter system administrators on the successful integration of people with lived experience into the shelter system workforce.

Employment Pathways For Shelter Residents

PWLE

Since you already have experience navigating the shelter system, why not get a job in the shelter system? Are you a person with lived experience around harm reduction, Mental health or refugee? We might have a job for you.

Digital Marketing

Digital content creation includes creating blogs, social media posts, ad copy, podcasting, vlogging, digital asset creation for video games, augmented, virtual and mixed reality applications.

Tele Marketing

Telemarketing is when a business sells products or services over the phone. It is also known as telesales. It is used to complete the sales process or to arrange further face-to-face or online sales appointments.

Contact Center Agent

Digital customer service means providing support to consumers through digital channels like chat, email, text (SMS), social media, messaging apps, and more.

Video Game Production

We teach you all the 7 stages of game development including planning, pre-production, production, testing, pre-launch, launch and post-production. 

Music Production

Music production includes creating lyrics, vocals, synthesizing music and video for full production. We also teach you how to market and distribute your audio or video music production. 

PWLE Shelter Worker Basic Training Requirements

To work in the shelter system, these are minimum training requirements:


Peer Worker & Peer Training Pathways

Harm Reduction

Apart from the above mentioned training and certification requirements, we will teach you all the harm reduction resources and peer support programs.

Mental Health

Apart from the above mentioned training and certification requirements, we will teach you all the mental health resources and peer support programs.


Refugee Experience

Apart from the above mentioned training and certification requirements, we will teach you all the refugee resources and peer support programs.


For Businesses

Be a Mentor

Mentor emerging talent while growing your business affordably. Mentor an apprentice remotely for an hour per week as they help tackle your projects for ten hours per week as part of their training.

Hire PWLE

People with lived experience are those directly affected by social, health, public health, or other issues and the strategies that aim to address those issues. This gives them insights that can inform and improve systems, research, policies, practices, and programs.

Hire Virtual Assistant

AI Content Assistant Freelancers For HIRE. Businesses are now using AI to create content for their brand and marketing strategies. We provide AI Content Assistant freelancers and help business owners to use AI.

ShelterBot Solutions

Therapy Chatbot

There is a lack of therapists that is leading to mental health access and equity issues. There are an estimated 350 individuals for every one mental health provider. Co-Therapist is an AI Assistant and a Clinical decision support system that makes a non-therapist into unlicensed therapists who are available to serve the community.

Education Chatbot

A chatbot is a text-based conversational AI agent. Through turns of conversation, a chatbot can guide, advise, and remedy questions and concerns on any topic. These guided conversations can help users search for resources in more abstract ways than via a search bar and also provide a more personable and customized experience based on each user’s background and needs.

Recruitment Chatbot

We believe in a world where all the friction that gets in the way of hiring is replaced by conversations — freeing people up to spend time with people, not software. Our conversational recruiting software is built to automate the tasks hiring teams don't have time for — like screening, interview scheduling, and onboarding — to save hours of time and take candidates from hello to hired faster than ever.

Medical Chatbot

A medical chatbot is a conversational AI-powered solution designed to make healthcare much more interactive and proactive. A medical chatbot is a conversational AI-powered solution designed to make healthcare much more interactive and proactive.

Research Chatbot

A clinical chatbot can be leveraged to assist with the completion of case report forms (CRFs) by providing real-time guidance and assistance to clinical trial participants and investigators. 

Financial Advisor Bot

FinVisor is a chat-based AI-enabled personal finance advisor. The app integrates with user's bank account and the AI engine analyzes the history of user's financial data and provides personalized advice. Users can view their account balance, set and track savings goal through the app.

Communication Coach Bot

ComCoach is a solution that improves the communication skills of the user by using computer vision technology.

The user stands in front of a camera (laptop or mobile phone) and give speeches or mock job interviews. ComCoach then analyses video and audio and provides written feedback and report using generative AI models.

Health Navigation Bot

The job of helping someone to find and obtain the medical and social services that they need, and in some health systems to deal with health insurance that pays for this: Health navigation is an approach to improving healthcare delivery that helps individuals access the care they need.

Housing Navigation Bot

Get housing information such as how to access emergency shelters, short-term rental rules, rooming houses regulations and rental housing resources.

Tech Services

Information Extraction

Information extraction (IE) is the automated retrieval of specific information related to a selected topic from a body or bodies of text. Information extraction tools make it possible to pull information from text documents, databases, websites or multiple sources.

Document Summarization

Document summarization AI technology can be beneficial for homeless shelters and human services organizations in various ways:

Virtual Assistant

NLP empowers chatbots and virtual assistants to engage in natural and conversational interactions, mimicking human empathy and emotional intelligence. These digital entities can detect sentiment, recognize humor, and even empathize with our frustrations or joys.

Call Center Bot

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a form of artificial intelligence (AI) that allows humans to interact with computers using conversational speech. This requires the computer to recognize what is being said and, in turn, the computer can process commands and answer the person back. Natural Language Processing (NLP) uses two primary methods to process speech: syntactic analysis and semantic analysis. Syntactic analysis applies rules about sentence structure (syntax) to derive part of the meaning of what's being said. Natural Language Processing (NLP) supplements this with semantic analysis, which tries to distill the meaning of the words. Algorithms translate the spoken words into a format the computer can use.

The biggest new side hustle will be using AI and helping business owners to use AI