Insights Community

Economic inclusion— financial security and sustainable housing—is vital for Autistic Albertans. To learn from a broad group of people, Autism Alberta’s Alliance and The Sinneave Family Foundation have partnered to create the Economic Inclusion Insights Community.

This initiative brings together Autistic individuals, family, and neurodivergent students to share real-life experiences. This collaborative network allows you to share your unique perspective on work, money, housing, and life after high school.

This will help us build practical recommendations for community partners across Alberta and Canada’s Autism Strategy.

To launch this new Insights Community, we will be using a new Rival platform – a mobile friendly tool so you can share your ideas easily.

If you have received an invitation to join this community, we hope you will participate and help us shape some real-world solutions. Check out the boxes below for more details:

Short, Twice Per Month Chats

About twice a month, we’ll text you a link to a brief online chat via Rival, a mobile-friendly conversational platform. No long, boring forms required.

Share Your Way

You can type your responses or record a quick video. Your privacy is fully respected—if you choose video, you never have to show your face. You are welcome to point the camera at a pet, a favorite photo, or the wall.

Grow Together

One of the most exciting parts of this community is learning with the exact same group of people over time. We will regularly share back what we learn so everyone benefits.

Earn Rewards

As a thank-you for your time and insights, community members can earn rewards and prize entries. The more you participate, the more you earn.

Frequently Asked Questions

Personal information is any information that can identify you. We may collect identifiable information such as your phone number or email address. If you choose to submit a video or photo that includes your face, that image would also be considered identifiable information.

We respect your privacy and take great care to protect your personal information. Your personal information will not be shared or used without your permission.

We may also collect other information, such as age range or income range. When reporting insights, we combine responses from multiple participants and share summary findings rather than individual responses. This helps ensure that individuals cannot be identified from information shared with the community or public.

Rival has a dedicated security and compliance team that is responsible for running and maintaining our information security program. Rival is a SOC2 Type 2 certified organization, in addition to being ISO27001:2022 and HIPAA/HITECH certified as part of Rival Group Inc.

Learn more about Rival Technologies security and compliance.

At The Sinneave Family Foundation (referred to here as “Sinneave” or “we” or “our”), we respect your privacy and take great care in protecting your personal information. As a charitable organization, we are actively involved in program development, learning activities and service delivery aimed at supporting youth and adults who identify as being on the Autism spectrum. In light of this work, individuals, organizations and community groups entrust us with personal information.

We have committed to the following principles in order to safeguard personal information and ensure its responsible collection and use:

  • Be transparent about how we handle your personal information and our privacy practices;
  • Use your personal information to benefit you and enhance your experience in using Sinneave’s services;
  • Protect your personal information and handle it responsibly.

Learn more about Sinneave’s Privacy Policy.

Rival uses your phone number for two factor authentification and to send you text messages about community activities. If you choose to participate in the points program, then your email address is also collected so we can send points notifications and e-gift cards.

Activity invitations are sent by text message. Rival is designed for mobile devices. If you prefer to complete activities on a desktop computer, you can copy the link from the text message and open it on your computer. For example, you can copy the link from the text message into an email and then open the same email on your computer.

Rival has a feature that uses AI probing capability that can generate follow-up questions. Sinneave can choose whether this feature is enabled for a particular activity. If it is on, the guidelines for probing capability must be programed into the system.

Rival also uses AI to process the information collected through a survey. It analyses and provides summaries. AI is also used to process the optional video responses.

During a pilot of Rival tools, Sinneave staff compared AI-generated summaries with summaries generated by our data team. While the AI summaries were useful, our team found that human-generated summaries provided a stronger understanding of regional context, government programs, and other local considerations.

For this reason, no AI-generated information will be shared without being reviewed by a human member of the project team to help ensure accuracy, context, and fairness.

Click to learn more about Rival’s AI Capabilities.

You can also read an Esomar overview of Rival’s AI Capabilities in this PDF. Esomar is the global membership association for the data, research, and insights community.

No. Rival does not use participant data to train its AI features and opts out of requests from external AI vendors to access participant data.

No. AI features are built into the Rival platform and cannot be turned off for individual participants

One of the goals of this Insights Community is to evaluate how well the Rival’s platform supports broad community engagement. At this time, participation is only available through the Rival platform.

If you choose not to participate because of the technology, we would appreciate hearing from you. Please email, community@sinneavefoundation.org to let us know you are not joining the insights community because of the technology being used.

Sinneave and Autism Society Alberta offer other opportunities for community engagement. To stay informed about future, sign up for updates from each organization. Subscribe to Sinneave’s newsletter and Autism Society Alberta’s newsletter.


See rewards points FAQ

Most surveys will take 5 to 10 minutes to complete. How much time you put into participating will depend on how many surveys you complete.

No you do not have to participate in every activity. Some activities may not apply to you (for example, if your profile says you do not provide care and support for an Autistic family member you would not receive a survey for that profile group. Some activities may not be of interest to you, which is fine.

Community members that have not completed an activity in three months will be asked it they wish to continue as members. The size of the community is limited to 500 members, so we ask members to complete at least one activity every three months.

If you no longer wish to participate, please send your phone number and email with a request to be removed from the Insights Community to community@sinneavefoundation.org

The Sinneave data team can access individual responses.

No, other community members cannot see your responses.

Neurodiverse refers to the general diversity seen across all people. Neurodivergent refers to a specific individual or group (e.g., Autistics) with a particular variation of diversity.

No you do not need a diagnosis to participate. Self-identification is fine.

No you do not need to show your face in video responses. You can record your voice while pointing the camera at your pet, the view outside or anything else you would like.

If your phone number or email changes, please email community@sinneavefoundation.org with the updated information

Unfortunately, the system can only accept one member per phone number.

No you do not need to report the gift cards as taxable income.