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    Pipe Dreams Capacity-Building offers coaching services to build neurodiverse youth's and their allies' capacity to increase choice and change in education, health, and community.

    Pipe Dreams provides a network for skill-building and professional support.

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SERVICES

Examples of capacity-building include:

• personal coaching for neurodiverse individuals

• working with a family to include a youth's voice in writing and implementing their IEP each year.

• assistance writing letters, legal documents, homeschool education plans, grants, etc.

• coordinating sponsorships, mentorships, and apprenticeships with local community members, businesses, and organizations

• connecting families to each other for healthy social opportunities and skill-sharing 

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WHAT IS CAPACITY-BUILDING?

Our core mission is to increase neurodiverse human capitol and prepare individuals and families to impact society. 

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​WHY FOCUS ON CAPACITY-BUILDING?

I do this work because the systems involved are difficult to navigate.  Some environments have the potential to be far more disabling than the differences we call "disabilities". 

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      When we feel empowered with information and skills, connected to community, and capable of placing our voices at the center of the decision-making processes that affect us most, this is the inception of a paradigm shift in the shaping of policy and service provision.   

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PIPE DREAMS' VISION

We aim to shift the current paradigm to one where services are driven by neurodiverse youth and adults.  There simply is no justification for failing to recognize Autistic people's expertise or claim that it is too difficult to design a process that prioritzes neurodiverse voices.  In fact, it is far more practical and ethical to make way for direct participation and decision-making. 

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IT'S NOT A PIPE DREAM!

    Don't ever let anyone convince you otherwise . . . . Our community is characterized by its intellect, creativity, and drive.   This includes nonverbal Autistic people, many of whom have written and published books.  

 

Because we know there is a long historical legacy of neurodiverse game-changers, this vision is, quite simply, NOT a pipe dream!​

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​CONTACT US 

If you are looking for supports and are ready to get started, please go to our contact page and drop us a note!

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