Please reach out to our team at or call 204-996-1547 with questions or to explore opportunities for us to share a custom training with your team. We look forward to supporting the community with you.
At Inspire, we know we are stronger together than we are apart. We hear that service providers are in need of additional support to provide more meaningful help to our community. We can help, so let’s learn together.
- We work within any budget.
- Funds returned to our community by way of free family supports and programming.
- Adapted information, especially for your team.
- Evidence-informed, including community narrative.
- Video conferencing software or in person.
- Training can be adapted to any length: 60, 90, and 120 minutes, 3 hours, 6 hours or multiple days.
Inspire’s support is created by the community; from children who grew up with differences, families that include children with differences, and evidence from a clinical perspective.
I really enjoyed it!
I was not expecting to have so much fun at a training.
The stories will stick with me as I support families and my team.
About Inspire
At Inspire Community Outreach, we support youth and families with unique challenges and celebrate strengths. We provide evidence informed, culturally safe, family-centered education and programming, designed to meet the needs of those living with mental health issues or neurological/cognitive differences. Compassion. Education. Inclusion.
Facilitated by one of the Inspire Team Members.
We look forward to hearing from you, to see how we can work together to support our community. Please don’t hesitate to contact our team with any questions or suggestions.
Neurodiversity
Embracing Neurodiversity (Any Length)
This workshop will increase understanding and how to support those who are neurodiverse, including complex children.
Learn with Angela Taylor, neurodivergent (x5) and former child in care labeled with complex needs, a caregiver to neurodiverse children, and service provider, who has learned over 20 years how to support our diverse community.
This support is created for families (individually or in groups), service providers, including therapists, social workers, and other professionals.
OBJECTIVES
- Introduction to neurodiversity in our community (ADHD, Autism, FASD, and others) and how that impacts mental health and carers
- Discussion of how neurodiversity meets Anxiety, Depression, and trauma.
- Exploring how to increase connection and calm, while caring for ourselves.
- Increasing our understanding of working as a collaborator with our child, and the system that supports them.
- Building on strength, sharing strategies, tools and resources to support continued growth and learning.
Neurodiversity Level 1 & 2 (2 Day)
The goal of this workshop is to provide people with the knowledge and skills to support those in their lives and workplaces who are neurodiverse. The hope of this training is to provide a strength-based approach that is empowering to individuals and families. *certificate upon completion can be provided
OBJECTIVES
- Introduction to neurodiversity, language, the evolution of what we currently know.
- Neurocomplexity defined: brain wiring differences, lived experiences and the impacts of social and environmental factors.
- Improving case management, working with complex needs, problem solving big challenges with children.
- Stories to explore illustrating the research and data.
- What it looks like, feels like and how to provide support.
- Innovative and community-recommended individual and family engagement techniques.
- Practical ideas for supporting neurodivergent/neurocomplex community members.
Complex Families
Supporting Exceptional Families
Supporting families that include children with disabilities and complex needs is not easy. Creating a meaningful connection to caregivers and their children, through a family-centered lens, engaging with understanding, compassion and a therapeutic rapport is essential for family well-being.
This support is created for service providers, including therapists, social workers, and other professionals, to learn strategies for enhancing family engagement practices and increasing confidence within yourself and your team.
OBJECTIVES
- Understanding the hidden reality of families that include children with disabilities, including complex needs.
- Reframing neurological, cognitive, and psychological disabilities to invite understanding and celebration of neurodiversity and differences
- Working within limited resources to maximize connection and well-being for families.
- Family engagement and inclusive support, adapted for and by families who include children with disabilities.
- Building on strengths, sharing strategies, tools and resources to support continued growth and learning.