About Us
Born at the Right Time’s vision is to create a world where families of people with complex disabilities are valued and supported to thrive in a community where they belong.
Established in 2015 by founder Rachel Wright, our work focuses on bridging the gap through collaboration, personalised care and community.
We are dedicated to effective communication founded on mutual respect, understanding and kindness. We want to narrow the implementation gap families experience and bridge the gap between rhetoric and reality. At its heart, our work is positive, creative and collaborative.
The hallmarks of Born at the Right Time services:
What Do We Do?
Resourcing Families
Passionate about a collective voice, we help parent carers feel seen, heard, empowered and resourced. Bridging the gap between families, communities and services.
We dream of a world where every person is recognised for their inherent worth with a life full of purpose and love. We celebrate interdependence above independence and want the collective voices of primary carers at the heart of policy development and service provision.
Through Rachel’s blogs and her books ‘The Skies I’m Under’ and ‘Shattered’, families hear their own voices and experiences echoed in her words.
Our hugely successful ”The Skies We’re Under’ podcast brings together the voices of parents around the world; so we can all feel ‘a little less alone and a little more understood.’
Through Born at the Right Time parent workshops, parents and parent carers have the chance to be informed and equipped creating camaraderie and collective voice.
We also support organisations to hear the lived experience in their own community by facilitating workshops and brokering the collective voices of parents and carers.
Training & Consultancy
Our award-winning training for practitioners across SEND, health and social care focuses on enabling professionals to put ideology and theory into practice.
Through CPD-certified courses, Born at the Right Time bridges the gap between professionals and parents, reducing isolation, increasing engagement and improving the lived experience of both families and professionals. We have a range of courses specifically tailored to specialist practitioners from our two-hour e-learning course to our one-day advanced training in Personalised Care.
We are proud to collaborate with Simple Stuff Works bringing the family voice and collaborative working to 24-hour Postural Care training. A wide range of specialist training serves specialist occupational therapists and physiotherapists, as well as practitioners across SEND, health and social care with a variety of e-learning and blended courses on offer.
Our courses can be accessed by individuals, teams, departments and large organisations with reduced rates for large, bespoke bookings.
Email admin@bornattherighttime.com or use our contact form for enquiries.
Influencing & Speaking
Using the voice of lived experience and collaborative working, we drive research and pioneering initiatives to turn ideology into practice and a better reality for families.
This includes our DCMM initiative – a simple step professionals can make to help parent/carers feel connected and a valued part of shared decision making. In 2020 we collaborated with Simple Stuff Works and NHS England to produce the Posture Positive project which highlighted the failings and potential solutions for postural care in England during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Our founder & director, Rachel Wright, is a Personalised Care Institute ambassador, promoting the value, and values of, personalised care and the excellent free training from the Personalised Care Institute.
Meet The Team
Rebekah McKinley – Operations Manager
Michelle Wright – Podcast Production and Business Development Officer
Joanna Holmes BSc (Hons) MSc MRCSLT – Trainer and Partnership Development Officer
Shurron Rosales BSc (Hons), EDI Specialist – Trainer and Consultant
People we have worked with:
