HelpSeeker Technologies is a social technology B-Corp founded in 2018 in Calgary.

We have quickly grown into a team of more than 50 members who develop and service a suite of data-driven digital solutions to support social sector decision-makers, service providers, and community members looking for help.

Our Core Values

Purpose-driven growth

We focus our business growth on advancing our social mission.

We build with urgency and with the long game in sight.

We consider our role in social change a privilege.

Intentional action on reconciliation, inclusion, diversity, equity & sovereignty

To combat discrimination and decolonize entrenched systems of power linked to the social safety net, we work to intentionally embed Truth and Reconciliation in our work as we operate on Indigenous lands.

Our diversity is our edge

The different perspectives, experiences, cultures, identities, skills, and knowledge each of us brings to the team make us strong. We walk the talk on equity, Reconciliation, and inclusion across our teams.

Integrity drives our innovation

We lead by example and behave with the highest levels of integrity. We speak up in the best interests of our mission and core values, even when that is hard. Nothing is set in stone: better ideas that drive our purpose always win.

We seek balance in all we do

While we are constantly challenged, we actively work on our personal and company wellbeing and support each other’s efforts to balance the demands of working in a startup environment.

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Our Team

We have a very good team that’s growing quickly.

Executive Team

Doreen Spence

Elder in Residence

Dr. Alina Turner

Co-President & Co-Founder

Alina is recognized as a leading researcher and thinker on social issues with proven implementation results. Her work on system planning is recognized as a leading practice and often called upon as a model across communities. Her drive and passion for this work is grounded in her lived experience of the social issues she continues to challenge in her professional work. Alina is a Fellow at The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary and serves on the Board of Directors for A Way Home Canada and the Alberta Rural Development Rural Advisory Board on housing and homelessness. Alina co-founded HelpSeeker as a spin-off social enterprise dedicated to connecting people with the help they need, fast. The back-end of HelpSeeker provides service providers and decision-makers with real-time analytics to inform strategy and decision-making. HelpSeeker is fast becoming a system mapping tool across Canadian communities, essential to mapping and analyzing over 100,000 social and health resources nationally. Working with the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness and A Way Home Canada, Turner Strategies established the Systems Planning Collective - dedicated to building capacity nationally to implement systems approaches to prevent and end homelessness. Alina has worked at an executive leadership level at both management and board of directors levels for the past 10 years. During her tenure as VP Strategy at the Calgary Homeless Foundation, Alina led the implementation of Canada’s first Homelessness Management Information System (HMIS) and designed Calgary’s Housing First System of Care. She oversaw $35 million in annual investments across 40 programs in Calgary, their performance management and quality assurance. Prior to this, Alina worked at the Poverty Reduction Initiative of the United Way of Calgary & Area, and a variety of front-line immigrant and homeless-serving agencies.