A disability-affirming community for parents with neurodivergent and disabled kids.
True support for caregivers starts here: Your kid is not a problem to fix.
Built by parents for parents, Care Lab brings together community, shared wisdom, practical tools, and learning grounded in disability justice and neurodiversity-affirming approaches.
It's a place to lower our shoulders, ask questions, make sense of our experiences, and explore different ways to support and advocate for our kids - without having to explain or fight to be understood.
Beyond our community, we partner with schools, nonprofits, and employers, and write, speak, and advocate for systems that work with and for our families.
Care Lab is here to support you - not add another demand.
We know how much caregivers are navigating and holding every day. That's why Care Lab is designed to work with different schedules, energy levels, and access needs. Join us live when it works for you, or connect and explore resources on your own time.
We welcome you to come as you are, when you can, with whatever it is you are carrying.
In our community, caregivers bring real questions, share honestly about complex experiences, and find practical support. On any given day, you'll find us talking about:
School advocacy and IEPs
Finding affirming providers
Relationship strain, exhaustion, and self-doubt
Joy, glimmers and wins
Unlearning ableism in our parenting
Caring for ourselves while caring for our kids
Our affirming community is part peer support, part learning space, part exhale.
Inside Care Lab, You’ll Find:
Why the Lab in Care Lab?
What if, instead of always asking our kids to change, we started asking what needs to change around them?
Too often, when classrooms, programs, or everyday environments don't meet our kids' needs, our kids are seen as the problem. The focus becomes changing them instead of questioning the expectations, environments, and practices that aren't working.
There are other ways.
The Lab is about curiosity, asking different questions, and exploring else is possible. Drawing on the wisdom and work of disabled and neurodivergent people and advocates, we share ideas, question old assumptions, and learn together as we work to build homes, schools, and communities where our kids can experience safety, joy, belonging and true support.
Community Workshops + Gatherings
Our workshops, community conversations, virtual meetups, and in-person gatherings bring together practical support, caregiver wellbeing, advocacy, and new ways of understanding our kids and the environments around them.
Sessions are shaped by lived experience and led by caregivers, neurodivergent and disabled people, advocates, and professionals whose work challenges conventional approaches and opens up new possibilities.
Check out a sampling of our past workshops and gatherings below!
“The Power of Parent Advocacy & Inspiring Partnerships”
Care Lab Moderator and Special Education Advocate Nicole Josey talks the importance of building partnerships with schools and community programs and shares advocacy tips with parents.
“Practices for Self-Compassion”
In this session, Chia-Ti Chiu explores tender and fierce self-compassion - and offers busy parents simple mindfulness and body-based practices to support sustainable care.
“Reimagining Social Stories”
In this workshop, Kim Takacs, SLP and Executive Director of Together We Bloom, explores behavior as communication and how simple, supportive routines can reduce stress - for kids and for parents.