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Our Mission

Neurodiversity Change Foundation advances education, facilitates organizational change and builds neurodivergent leadership. Our work will lead to neurodivergent individuals experiencing empowerment, belonging and dignity. We will contribute to systemic change in partnership with allies through training development, action research and advocacy.

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Why Give?

Across Canada, neurodivergent adults face preventable barriers such as:

  • Unsafe healthcare interactions

  • Misdiagnosis and lack of appropriate support

  • Workplace discrimination and career stagnation

  • Unprepared mental-health systems

  • Policies that are outdated or non-protective

These are not isolated incidents — they are patterns embedded in systems.

Our model brings together:

  • lived experience expertise

  • academic research

  • clinical and professional practice

  • community organizing

  • and policy knowledge

Your investment enables basic building blocks necessary to produce systems change:

  • core leadership

  • community engagement and consultation

  • program development, design and delivery

  • evaluation and measurement

  • community leadership-development

  • organizational stability

  • technology and communications infrastructure

What difference will you make?

  • Safer health care encounters (CareSafer™)

    • Co-design and delivery of neuroinclusive care training with primary-care teams.

    • Supporting clinics to identify and reduce common sources of harm (communication breakdowns, sensory overload, diagnostic bias).

    • Embedding practical tools (checklists, scripts, accommodation prompts) into everyday workflow.

  • Changing narratives and culture (MediaSafer™, ChangeMaker™)

    • Elevate neurodivergent stories that centre rights, dignity, and agency.

    • Equip students, clinicians, and community partners to act as “change-makers” within their own systems.

  • More sustainable, safer employment (EmploySafer™)

    • Partner with employers and lived experience-academic teams to design neuroinclusive accommodation pathways.

    • Shifting responsibility for “fitting in” away from workers and onto systems, policies, and managers.

    • Building templates, processes, and metrics for safer hiring, onboarding, and performance management.

  • Infrastructure for long-term change

    • Neurodivergent-led governance, with contracting frameworks that protect lived-experience leadership.

    • Partnership-driven projects with clinics, universities, and community organizations to test, refine, and scale what works.