Empowering the World
to Embrace
Every Mind
Real tools, lived-experience, evidence-based strategies for families and professionals navigating the overlapping symptoms of Autism, ADHD, FASD & Trauma.
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Empowering Families & Communities
We build bridges of understanding between neurodivergent individuals and the families, schools, workplaces, and communities around them.
Research-grounded guides built from lived experience, not just theory.
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Practical tools, intervention strategies, and guides for every stage of the journey.
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Expert-led training for parents, educators, social workers, and church leaders.
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A growing community where no family fights alone — churches, schools, neighbors united.
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developmental difference
"About 1 in 6 (17%) of children aged 3–17 years have one or more developmental disabilities." — Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (2024).
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Why Neurodiversity
Matters
Neurodiversity recognizes that differences in how our brains work are natural and valuable. By embracing these differences, families, schools, and communities can unlock the strengths and potential in every mind — not just manage the challenges.
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Families gain language, tools, and hope they never had before — replacing fear and confusion with confidence and a clear direction forward.
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Schools and communities learn to create genuinely inclusive environments where every child belongs, contributes, and can thrive.
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Every child and adult deserves to be understood and celebrated — not simply managed, medicated, or left behind.
"When we understand how a brain works, we stop asking the child to change — and start changing how we show up for them."
— Joel Sheagren, Co-Founder, Embracing NeurodiversityPractical Hope
in Your Hands
Compassionate, practical guides helping families raise neurodiverse children with understanding, resilience, and hope — written by two dads who lived every page of it.
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Book 1 — Embracing HOPE covers FASD, autism, ADHD, and trauma-informed parenting with strategies that actually work in real family life.
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Book 2 — Embrace Neurodiversity is a comprehensive church resource equipping faith communities to support neurodivergent people and families.
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With contributions by Amy Jozan, PhD Forensic Psychology — research and writing grounded in science, not just good intentions.
Co-Founder
Co-Founder
"Every family deserves to feel embraced, supported, and full of hope — not left to fight alone."
Two Dads.
One Mission.
Carl and Joel met at a conference in 2017 — two fathers from different states and different backgrounds who discovered they were fighting the same quiet battle: raising children with neurodiverse profiles that the systems around them simply didn't understand, especially FASD.
Carl brings policy, research, and technology — already taking on the North Dakota government, not as a politician, but as a father armed with truth. Joel brings vision and story, pointing a camera at lives that deserved to be seen and heard.
Together they built what they wished had existed: practical hope, grounded in love, research, and lived experience. Their book Embracing HOPE was written for every family that has ever felt alone, unsupported, and in need of strategies that actually work.
"We didn't set out to build a movement. We set out to make sure no family had to fight as hard as we did, alone."
— Carl Young & Joel Sheagren, Co-FoundersFind the Right Help
for Your Teen — Right Now
Every neurodiverse teen is different. Every family situation is different. That's why we built a tool that meets you exactly where you are.
Tell us who you are and what your teen is struggling with most — and we'll send you a targeted, research-backed intervention strategy instantly, free.