Raising neurodivergent + disabled kids in an ableist world is hard. 

Don’t do it alone.

Care Lab Collective is an online refuge for caregivers of neurodivergent and disabled kids seeking the supportive community and affirming resources they need to feel less alone, stressed out, and overwhelmed.

Care Lab Collective empowers caregivers to tap into invaluable peer support, including:

  • Within our digital platform, caregivers can connect with a vibrant community of fellow parents who “get it”. Join our thematic chat boards, organized around diagnoses, identity, and geography, where you can:

    • Find your people

    • Ask burning questions

    • Give and get encouragement

    • Share stories and learnings

    No matter your child’s age or stage - we know that having a community of fellow caregivers alongside you through the journey is key.

  • Through live and pre-recorded sessions, tap into the resilience-building power of community care through:

    • community conversations featuring a diverse range of parent-leaders, visionaries, and advocates

    • workshops & events to help manage stress and support your wellbeing

  • We know just how much time and energy it takes to sift through the seemingly endless stream of information out there. No more.

    Within Care Lab, you’ll find our treasure trove of trustworthy and disability-affirming resources, recommended/created by fellow members, providing you with the information you need to parent and advocate with more confidence.

This unique member community is a national expansion of a proven prototype — a local peer support group created by Care Lab Collective’s co-founder in 2021 — that has become an indispensable community hub for 450+ caregivers in South Orange/Maplewood, NJ.

Care Lab Collective was created by two moms of neurodivergent kids with decades of experience building supportive spaces for young people, families, and front-line staff inside New York City schools, agencies and organizations.

The internet is full of “expert-led” parenting sites. But what caregivers yearn for — and struggle to find — is community.

Care Lab Collective is here to change that.

  • “Before I found this community, I felt super isolated. That all changed with an invite to the group. I found my people, heard stories of parents who had kids just like mine, got connected with resources, and renewed my confidence enough to trust my gut and advocate for my child.”

    —D.T.

  • "The most helpful thing has been learning from and finding community with other parents. It's from other parents that I learned how to request an evaluation - and what to do when we were at first denied an IEP. It's through other parents that I learned to ask for certain services, how to conduct an effective IEP meeting, and how to make sure accommodations in the IEP were being followed."

    —M.H.

  • "What Care Lab Collective does, is allow us to feel like we have resources. We have supports within an experience that can be very, very isolating. These are our lifeline to know that there are other people that are facing the same things as you, to know that there are resources that are specific to your experience. It can be absolutely life changing in terms of improving a child and a family's quality of life."

    —M.B.

  • "Care Lab Collective is something that I couldn't have even dreamed up knowing that I needed. But knowing that it's on the precipice of existing is it gives me just so much hope and joy, truly that parents like me, parents who haven't even started this journey yet, parents who have been doing it for a long time, will have these resources."

    —M.N.