Health and caregiving
NeuroCares™
A caregiver-navigation and coordinated-health initiative focused on helping families recognize changing needs, identify appropriate resources, and connect with support earlier.
Health, Research & Innovation
Building connected systems before people and families reach crisis.
Through work with the Neurodiversity Foundation and cross-sector collaborators, Michelle Raz contributes to initiatives connecting health, education, workforce, caregiving, and everyday life—so people are not left navigating fragmented systems alone.
Connected Support Infrastructure
The organizing principle
Life does not happen in silos.
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Health & wellbeing
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Education & learning
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Workforce participation
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Daily & community life
The systems gap
Fragmented support creates preventable gaps.
Education, healthcare, workforce, caregiving, and community services often operate separately—even though people experience all of them as one life. Families are left carrying information between systems and determining what should happen next.
Better outcomes begin with earlier identification, clearer navigation,
and coordinated next steps.
When systems remain separate
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Families repeatedly explain the same history and needs
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Early indicators of risk can be overlooked
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Recommendations may not transfer into daily action
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Support may arrive only after challenges escalate
What connected infrastructure supports
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Clearer information and easier navigation
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Earlier recognition of changing needs
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Coordinated roles, priorities, and next steps
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Better transfer into education, work, and everyday life
Neurodiversity Foundation initiatives
Four initiatives. One connected support ecosystem.
These initiatives address different parts of the neurodivergent experience while sharing a common goal: making information, support, learning, and coordinated next steps easier to access and use.
Connected participation
NeuroEngage™
A strengths-first ecosystem concept connecting people, resources, organizations, and opportunities across education, health, employment, and community life.
Personalized learning
Precision Hyperlearning™
A personalized-learning initiative exploring how information and learning experiences can be designed for nonlinear thinkers and different cognitive profiles.
Information and navigation
My ND Guide™
A trusted navigation pathway intended to help neurodivergent people and families find reliable information, relevant resources, and clearer next steps.
These are Neurodiversity Foundation initiatives. Michelle Raz contributes experience in executive-function practice, curriculum, career pathways, workforce development, and implementation.
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Stanford Neurodiversity Summit
“Life Does Not Happen in Silos.”
Presented at the Stanford Neurodiversity Summit, this work advances a connected model of neurodivergent support—one that recognizes that mental wellness, education, daily independence, community participation, and employment continually influence one another.
Presented by Michelle Raz with Shawn Fry
The Raz contribution
Connecting practice, curriculum, and systems design.
Raz Coaching brings experience developed through direct services, executive-function curriculum, professional training, workforce programs, and the lived realities of families navigating fragmented support systems.
Michelle Raz
Director of Career Pathways, Neurodiversity Foundation
Lived and frontline experience
Translating the experiences of neurodivergent people, caregivers, students, and professionals into practical design priorities.
Executive-function methodology
Contributing strengths-first frameworks that help people turn information and insight into daily action and participation.
Curriculum and implementation
Developing structured learning pathways, professional resources, training models, and systems designed for practical use.
Workforce and career pathways
Connecting education, readiness, job retention, leadership, and Adaptive Independence™ across the employment journey.
Support in real life
When insight becomes everyday action.
Coaching does not replace therapy, counseling, or clinical care. It adds practical structure for routines, decisions, organization, and follow-through—helping people apply what they are learning between appointments and through major life transitions.
“Coaching with my therapy helped me turn my life around.”
Anna F.
Salt Lake City, Utah
“Coaching helped me rebuild my life.”
Dan R.
West Windsor, New Jersey
Collaboration across systems
Connected support requires partners at more than one table.
The strongest solutions bring together organizations with different expertise, responsibilities, data, and relationships to the people and families they serve.
Health systems and care teams
Partners focused on earlier identification, caregiver navigation, coordinated support, and continuity across care settings.
Schools and postsecondary programs
Educational partners supporting learning, transition planning, executive-function development, and increasing independence.
Workforce programs and employers
Organizations advancing readiness, job retention, inclusive performance, leadership, and career mobility.
Public agencies and self-directed programs
Systems supporting person-centered goals, community participation, daily living, education, and employment.
Researchers and technology collaborators
Partners exploring evidence, responsible technology, accessible information, and new approaches to personalized support.
Funders and community partners
Organizations helping promising ideas move into pilots, implementation, evaluation, and sustainable community impact.
Explore collaboration
Build earlier, more connected support.
If your organization is working at the intersection of health, education, workforce, caregiving, technology, or community participation, let’s explore where our experience and systems may connect.
Research · Program design · Implementation · Cross-system partnership
Common Questions
Connected-support questions answered.
Answers about support beyond clinical settings, care coordination, earlier planning, crisis reduction, and collaborative innovation.
Identify
Connect
Coordinate
Sustain
01 What is the purpose of Raz Coaching’s health and innovation work?
Raz Coaching’s health and innovation work focuses on the connections between wellbeing, education, employment, caregiving, and everyday independence. The goal is to help build more coordinated support systems so neurodivergent people and their families are not left navigating fragmented services alone. This work includes practical support models, cross-sector collaboration, workforce pathways, education, and Foundation initiatives.
02 What support is available following or alongside therapy, counseling, or other clinical care?
Coaching and structured support can help a person translate insight from therapy, counseling, or other care into daily routines, communication, planning, self-advocacy, education, employment, and independent living. These services do not replace therapy or medical treatment. They address the practical application and follow-through that may be needed between appointments and across everyday environments.
03 How can earlier support and better coordination help reduce the risk of crisis?
Earlier support can help identify emerging needs, clarify responsibilities, strengthen daily routines, connect people with appropriate resources, and improve communication across caregivers and support systems. Better coordination may reduce gaps that allow manageable concerns to become more serious. Raz Coaching and its collaborative initiatives are not emergency or crisis-response services and do not guarantee that a crisis can be prevented.
04 How is Raz Coaching connected with the Neurodiversity Foundation and its initiatives?
Michelle Raz collaborates with the Neurodiversity Foundation as Director of Career Pathways, contributing experience in executive function, education, workforce development, and systems implementation. Foundation initiatives include NeuroCares™, NeuroEngage™, Precision Hyperlearning™, and My ND Guide™—connected efforts addressing navigation, learning, wellbeing, resources, and participation across life domains.
05 What organizations can collaborate on health and innovation initiatives?
Potential collaborators include healthcare and behavioral health organizations, schools, colleges, workforce systems, caregiver organizations, community programs, researchers, public agencies, disability-service providers, and philanthropic partners. Collaboration may involve program design, education, workforce pathways, practitioner training, research, resource navigation, or cross-system initiatives supporting neurodivergent people and families.