You've been doing the work of an entire team. It's time you had one working for you.
Clinician-led respite care and companionship at home and in the community — and professional help navigating the system. Built for families raising neurodivergent children across DC, Maryland, and Virginia.
Book a free intro callNot an agency. Not an app. Not therapy.
Novinway is a respite care and family support service for neurodivergent kids, teens, and young adults with autism, ADHD, anxiety, and other differences. We send trained, W-2 caregivers to your home or into the community to spend time with your child. We also support your family with a dedicated person who knows the school, therapy, and benefits systems and helps you navigate them — we call this System Navigation. Whether you're just starting out or you've been managing this for years, no formal diagnosis is required.
Two services. Everything covered.
Your child's caregiver
Trained, neuroaffirming care and companionship at home and in the community, from caregivers who are here for the right reasons: students on clinical tracks, neurodivergent adults who serve as role models, and professionals like behavior technicians who love working with kids.
- Clinician-led: Before the first visit, our clinician builds a Care Profile of your child, their routines, their sensory needs, and what helps them regulate, then trains your caregiver on it. You never have to explain your child from scratch.
- Our own people: Every caregiver is our own W-2 employee, screened, vetted, and supervised. They're explicitly trained in elopement safety, alternative communication, and crisis de-escalation. Never a one-off sitter or an agency contractor.
- Built around your child: As much or as little structure as you want. Stimming and unmasking are welcome. The goals are always yours.
- Not a replacement for therapy: Respite Care works alongside your child's existing therapies, not instead of them. See how it fits with your care team →
What it looks like is babysitting. What's behind it is not.
Your family's navigator
A navigator in your corner who already knows how the system works — so you stop spending hours on hold, filling out redundant forms, and worrying you're missing something.
- What your child actually needs: The services, therapies, and programs that exist — which ones are typically recommended, what order makes sense, and what questions to ask. Most families don't know what they're missing until someone who knows the system tells them.
- Everything tracked, nothing missed: Every provider, authorization, waitlist, deadline, and benefit — maintained in one place, kept current, and flagged before it matters. You're never caught off guard.
- Advice, or done for you: We help you think through every decision and tell you exactly what to do, or we take the work off your plate entirely: the calls, the applications, the scheduling.
Either way, the decisions are yours, and you're not doing it alone.
Meet some of our Care Specialists.
Three summers leading inclusive outdoor programming for neurodivergent kids ages 5-10 at Pearlstone, where she gravitated toward the kids who didn't want to join the big group and let them have the space to do what they actually wanted. A trained Crisis Text Line counselor and Wilderness First Responder who researches autism acceptance at the University of Maryland.
A George Washington University chemistry student on a pre-PA track, with four years in a sports inclusion program where he developed one-on-one relationships with neurodivergent participants and adapted activities to individual sensory and skill needs. He founded GW's Pre-PA Society and brings the same instinct for building community to his work with children.
A George Washington University graduate in Human Services and Social Justice, trained in crisis de-escalation through NAMI's teen and young adult helpline. Grew up alongside her best friend's neurodivergent brother and has spent years quietly advocating for kids whose needs were going unnoticed by the adults around them, building safe and supported spaces wherever she's worked.
Transparent pricing. No surprises.
We're here to help.
You've carried enough. Getting started is simple — reach out and we'll have a short, no-cost conversation to understand your situation and figure out together whether we're the right fit. Founding families who reach out now will be brought on first as we launch in September. We're growing at a pace that lets us do this right.
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