PROJECT DESCRIPTION/DESCRIPTION DU PROJET:

Phare is a mental health startup in the digital health services space with a fifteen-counsellor team and eighty clients and growing. Our core product is a marketplace dedicated to an ideal fit between clients with counsellors. Our team has been serving paying clients in need of therapy for more than a year (since June 2020), during which our team has been testing, validating and invalidating hypotheses about its customers on both sides--clients and counsellors--of its marketplace.

Our culture is one of wanting to make an impact around mental health, especially for students. If you join Phare, we want you to know that you will be bringing your whole being to working with us, not just the parts of you that are "relevant" on a list of bullet points on a job posting. We started Phare because we knew there was a huge need--and a huge demand--under COVID and the mental health effects that have been exacerbated until pandemic will have a ripple effect for a long time to come. So you and others who join us will be working on some of the greatest problems that inspired us to start Phare in the first place.

HOW MANY STUDENT INTRAPRENEURS WILL THIS PROJECT ACCOMMODATE?

5

TIME COMMITMENT PER STUDENT/TEMPS DE TRAVAIL PAR ÉTUDIANT:

70

KEY PROJECT ACTIVITIES/TÂCHES ASSOCIÉES AU PROJET:

• Software Development
• User Experience/User Interface design
• Financial Modeling and Reporting
• Researching access to mental health resources on your campus
• Representing Phare on your campus as an ambassador for mental health
• Educating other students as to access to mental health services (including non-Phare options)

IDEAL ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES/RÔLES/RESPONSABILITÉS:*

• Software Development and Design
• Finance
• Marketing, Media, Sales
• Data Analysis, Operations

FINAL PROJECT DELIVERABLES/LIVRABLES DU PROJET:

• Progress reports
• Prototypes, live demos (software development and design)
• Business reports (Finance)

PROJECT MENTOR NAME/NOM DU MENTOR DU PROJET: Dr. Ray Hsu