Raising neurodivergent and disabled kids in a world that isn’t built for them is hard.

Don’t do it alone.

Care Lab Collective is a national online network created by and for parents of neurodivergent and disabled kids.

We offer 24/7 access to affirming peer support, real-life advocacy tools, supportive workshops, and collective strength to help us navigate and transform a world that wasn’t built for our families.

Why join Care Lab Collective?

Raising neurodivergent and disabled kids in an ableist world is hard —and shouldn’t be a solo act of triage and survival.

Navigating everyday barriers and social stigma can leave us heartbroken, angry, and worn out.

So we are building something different.

A community where nobody has to do it all alone.

Inside Care Lab, we do all of it together.

Care Lab makes it radically easier for parents like us to build real, lasting networks of support—places where we can connect, share experiences, learn from each other, and navigate the challenges and celebrate together.

Through building community and sharing peer support, we grow resilience, strengthen our advocacy, and fuel neurodiversity- and disability-affirming social + systemic change.

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As a Care Lab member, you can:

  • We welcome you into a growing network of real parents who support, encourage and inspire each other.

  • Through live and on-demand community education, we dig into real-life moments, examine systems and grow our caregiving skills.

  • Our workshops and community events to help you rest, regulate, and parent with less burn out.

  • We share a growing treasure trove of practical resources and advocacy tools from parents who have lived it.

A Welcome from the Founders

We are so glad you’re here—welcome!

We’re Jessica and Rachel: social workers, community builders and, most importantly, moms of neurodivergent kids who have become lifelong friends along the course of our parenting journeys.

We know firsthand how much caregivers like us need each other in a world that treats our children like problems to fix. We are building Care Lab to be a welcoming community hub - rooted in collective care, sharing wisdom and resources, and unconditional support - for parents who are tired of feeling stressed out, isolated and overwhelmed. Because we aren’t meant to do this alone.

Together we have the power to rewrite the old, reductive stories about neurodivergence and disability.

Join us! Let’s build the community we all need and deserve.

The internet is full of “expert-led” parenting sites.

But what caregivers of neurodivergent and disabled kids really need, and struggle to find, is a community of peers who understand and can navigate the ups and downs alongside them.

Because finding your people changes everything.

  • “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.”

    —Danielle

  • "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."

    —Mousumi

  • "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."

    —Melanie