Frequently Asked Questions

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The Wildflower Alliance works to expand equitable access to everyday life experiences for children with disabilities and their families.

Our focus is on the parts of daily life that often require extra effort or adaptation for families—across education, healthcare, childcare, insurance, recreation, and other responsibilities—and on reducing the additional burden families carry as they move through these experiences.

Children with disabilities are the primary beneficiaries of our work. Families and caregivers are the primary people we serve.

We recognize that a child’s access to everyday life is deeply connected to the people and conditions surrounding their family. Supporting families is essential to supporting children.

Many families raising children with disabilities find that everyday life requires significantly more time, energy, and effort than it should—often across multiple systems and settings at once.

The Wildflower Alliance focuses on the gap between what families should reasonably be able to access in daily life and what they are actually able to access given how many environments, processes, and expectations are currently structured.

The Wildflower Alliance is not organized around a single service, diagnosis, or system.

Instead of working in only one area of life, we focus on whether participation is actually working across the full scope of a family’s day-to-day reality. This allows us to support access wherever families encounter friction, rather than addressing one area while challenges continue elsewhere.

Because access in everyday life is not determined by systems alone—it is shaped by the decisions, practices, and assumptions people make every day in the roles they already hold.

Small, routine choices—how a school communicates changes, how a clinic prepares families for a visit, how a business considers physical or sensory access, how an employer responds to flexibility needs, or how a neighbor reacts in a shared space—can either ease or compound the effort required for families navigating disability. This work matters beyond individual families because participation in daily life is created collectively, and the conditions people help maintain affect far more than one household at a time.

People support The Wildflower Alliance by contributing time, resources, influence, or visibility in ways that help make everyday life more workable for families of children with disabilities.

Support may include volunteering, partnering with us around inclusive efforts, supporting our work financially, sharing information within personal or professional networks, or helping create more responsive practices within the environments people influence. Support does not require specialized expertise—only a willingness to contribute to conditions where families can realistically navigate daily life.