(Self-Paced) Enhancing Your Scope of Understanding & Educating Clients to Navigate Their Needs Supporting Neurodivergent Families Through Complex Systems and Crisis
What This Training Offers:
🔹 Lived Experience + Clinical Expertise
Led by a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and parent of a Level 3 autistic daughter with ADHD and moderate intellectual disability. Grounded in both personal journey and professional practice across NY, NJ, and FL.
🔹 Neurodiversity-Affirming & Trauma-Informed Framework
Learn to center care around client strengths, identities, and communication styles—including those often overlooked due to gender, culture, or ability.
🔹 System Navigation Strategies
Understand how families interact with complex and fragmented systems—education, developmental disabilities, mental health, emergency response (police, EMTs), and child protective services—and how clinicians can be advocates within them.
🔹 Understanding and Interpreting Reports
Learn how to help clients make sense of existing evaluation reports (e.g., autism, ADHD, psychological/educational assessments), reduce shame around diagnostic language, and understand what questions to ask to get the care they need.
🔹 Empowering Families Through Accessible Communication
Create reports with clear language, visual supports, and affirming summaries. Learn how to walk families through findings in a collaborative and respectful way—ensuring the individual is included in the process, regardless of communication level.
🔹 Clinician Self-Reflection + Tools
Includes guided reflection prompts, sample scripts, and a strengths-based clinical toolkit to improve family engagement and promote advocacy.
What This Training Offers:
🔹 Lived Experience + Clinical Expertise
Led by a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and parent of a Level 3 autistic daughter with ADHD and moderate intellectual disability. Grounded in both personal journey and professional practice across NY, NJ, and FL.
🔹 Neurodiversity-Affirming & Trauma-Informed Framework
Learn to center care around client strengths, identities, and communication styles—including those often overlooked due to gender, culture, or ability.
🔹 System Navigation Strategies
Understand how families interact with complex and fragmented systems—education, developmental disabilities, mental health, emergency response (police, EMTs), and child protective services—and how clinicians can be advocates within them.
🔹 Understanding and Interpreting Reports
Learn how to help clients make sense of existing evaluation reports (e.g., autism, ADHD, psychological/educational assessments), reduce shame around diagnostic language, and understand what questions to ask to get the care they need.
🔹 Empowering Families Through Accessible Communication
Create reports with clear language, visual supports, and affirming summaries. Learn how to walk families through findings in a collaborative and respectful way—ensuring the individual is included in the process, regardless of communication level.
🔹 Clinician Self-Reflection + Tools
Includes guided reflection prompts, sample scripts, and a strengths-based clinical toolkit to improve family engagement and promote advocacy.