For parents of children with ADHD, the stress and strain follow them everywhere — into classrooms, doctors’ offices, kitchen tables, and the quiet hours after everyone else is asleep.
They’re not just raising a child with complex needs. They’re filling out forms, tracking medication, relaying updates between teachers and therapists. They’re scrambling to remember what happened three weeks ago by the time a 20-minute appointment finally arrives.
That burden is what Threaded Care, a new ADHD care coordination platform from St. Johns County-based The Attention Institute, aims to ease. The platform gives parents, teachers and providers a shared, real-time view of a child’s challenges, progress and day-to-day patterns.
Why ADHD Care Feels Fragmented
Raghu Misra, founder of The Attention Institute and Threaded Care, said families are often left to navigate a fractured ADHD system on their own.
“On average, ADHD families are traversing six to eight different providers,” he said. “Nobody is talking to each other at all.”
Those providers can include prescribers, occupational therapists, speech therapists, psychologists and others. The result is often a patchwork of ADHD care that leaves parents exhausted, repeating the same information, and trying to connect dots no one else is tracking.
Elizabeth Winnings, a psychiatric nurse practitioner with Threaded Care, said families often arrive at appointments trying to compress weeks or even months of struggles into a brief visit.
If a crisis happens that day, it can dominate the appointment, while the patterns behind it go unexamined.
“Why am I having to be that conduit to communicate with each provider?” she said. “It’s incredibly difficult. This gets everyone on the same page.”
How Threaded Care Helps ADHD Families
Threaded Care gives families one place to track sleep problems, medication adherence, side effects, homework struggles, and other day-to-day concerns. Parents can also decide who contributes, inviting co-parents, teachers, coaches, and clinicians into the same system.
Eva Luther, Threaded Care’s program director and co-founder, said that can replace the scattered notes, paper forms, and delayed follow-up that often define ADHD care for families.
“We see the impact of this issue all the time,” she said. “Parents have enough to deal with, and this issue has been a real frustration.”
Misra said families can spend four to seven hours a week managing paperwork alone.
“Stop being a project manager for your child,” he said. “Be a parent.”
How the ADHD Care Coordination Platform Works for Providers and Schools
Emily Connor, Threaded Care’s co-founder and director of research and operations, said the platform does more than digitize paperwork.
It uses data visualizations to help providers spot patterns they might otherwise miss, including differences in behavior between home and school or with one parent versus another.
Teachers, who are often left out of the broader ADHD care picture despite spending much of the day with a child, can also add real-time observations. That gives providers a fuller picture and can help schools respond more effectively.
For example, a child who does well in the morning but struggles in the afternoon may not be hitting a wall academically. The issue could be medication timing, fatigue or something else invisible in a short office visit.
Availability and Affordability
Threaded Care is rolling out now. The platform includes a free version for invited teachers and school staff and a paid family plan for unlimited children at $79 a month.
In Florida, Step Up funds can be used, and the platform is also eligible for HSA and FSA coverage nationwide.
For families juggling doctors, teachers, therapists and daily setbacks, the promise of Threaded Care is straightforward: less paperwork, fewer blind spots and a simpler way to manage ADHD care.
