Changing Stories.
Changing Systems.
Changing Futures.
Building Neuro-inclusive Systems
NCF is a national neurodivergent-led design and implementation hub for systems change. We develop leadership, translate evidence and lived experience into practical models, and support real-world transformation across healthcare, employment, and institutional systems.
Ways to Engage
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Host a Learning & Change Session — Bring NCF into your team or event
Design, Implement & Test Neuroinclusive Systems
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Join our ChangeMaker initiatives
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Donate — Help build safer systems for neurodivergent adults
Voices of NCF
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“Together, we are creating safer, fairer futures"
- Lara McLachlan, NCF Founder
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“Justice starts with listening to lived experience.”
- Sydney Elaine Butler, NCF Associate
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“We build systems where neurodivergent adults can thrive.”
- Lacey Artemis, NCF Associate
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"When we stop forcing 'normal,' we start creating real opportunity."
- Gurpreet Singh, NCF Associate
Thanks to Conor Forrest, NCF Associate, and Letter Fifty Productions for this video!
A neurodivergent-led nonprofit advancing systemic change so every neurodivergent adult can access safe healthcare, dignified work, and justice.
We are transforming systems, not people.
Legal Purposes:
NCF's purpose is to advance education, facilitate organizational change and build 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.
Read about our Values and Founder’s Story
NCF is a lived experience driven systems-change non-profit designed to act as a field catalyst.
Our role is to translate evidence on neurodivergent experience into institutional change across healthcare, employment, leadership and justice systems.
Our model prioritizes engagement, integrity of vision, and structural impact.
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Land Acknowledgement
The Neurodiversity Change Foundation acknowledges that our work takes place on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən Peoples (Songhees and Esquimalt Nations) and recognizes the ongoing relationships the W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples maintain with this land.
We acknowledge the harms of colonial systems that continue to shape inequities and inform dominant definitions of ability, behaviour, and intelligence, reinforcing racism and ableism across social systems.
As a neurodivergent-led organization, we commit to challenging these structures, honouring Indigenous sovereignty, and advancing culturally safe, accessible, and intersectional practices through ongoing reflection, accountability, action and solidarity in our practice and education work.