If you love someone who is autistic or neurodivergent, you already know the job nobody hired you for. You are the one who carries records from the pediatrician to the school, from the school to the waiver office, from the waiver office to the next provider. Families in Baton Rouge shoulder the burden of doing that coordination work, unpaid and mostly alone.

That's not a family problem. It's a design problem. Healthcare, schools, housing and employment were built separately, and families pay the cost of the gaps between them.

The Capital Area Autism Network exists to close those gaps. We bring providers, schools, employers, agencies and families to the same table so the systems start talking to each other, instead of through you.

This year, we hosted our inaugural Continuum of Care Provider Summit to develop a protocol to ease that family burden and released our first State of Neurodiversity in the Capital Area report to set a baseline that measures progress towards closing the gaps. Your gift keeps that work going in 2027.

Give $120 today, one dollar for every hour a family spends closing the gaps themselves, or become a Monthly Champion at $10 a month.

Close the Gaps - Giving Tuesday 2026

Baton Rouge families carry the burden of filling the gaps between systems that don't talk to each other. This Giving Tuesday, help us close them.