About Supporting Community Together
Supporting Community Together is dedicated to strengthening individuals, families, and professionals through neurodiversity-affirming, practical support. Our work focuses on mental health, accessibility, and creating environments where diverse nervous systems can thrive.
We collaborate with individuals, communities, and organizations to translate research and lived experience into real-world solutions. Through training, consultation, programming, and speaking, we support systems in building safer, more responsive environments for complex and diverse populations.
Our approach is grounded in respect, relational safety, and the belief that meaningful change happens when communities work together to design environments where people can belong, grow, and succeed.

Angela Taylor, PhD Candidate, MA, PBDE
Angela Taylor is SCT’s Chief Executive Office (CEO), and Founder. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree, her Post Baccalaureate in Education, focusing on inclusion and counselling, and a Masters in Disability Studies. She currently is completing her PhD in Education at the University of Manitoba, focusing on effective care as defined by the neurodivergent.
Angela has over 27 years of extensive experience with youth with various neurological differences, including trauma and autism. Throughout her career she has gathered valuable experiences through working with families with the Manitoba Government, caring for youth and children, working as a Clinical Case Manager, and volunteering over 20,000 hours with agencies in Winnipeg and British Columbia. She has won numerous awards for her work, including the ACAMH Awards David Cottrell Education Award (2024), the CTV Mental Health Champion Award (2020), and the Manitoba Heroes award (2019).
Angela is a mother to 6, and celebrates psychological, cognitive and neurological differences within her family. She says her children have been her best teacher, and support her to learn about how each of us need additional support at different times in our lives, to use our gifts and talents to grow.
Angela is multiply neurodivergent, including AuDHD. She spent much of her childhood in formal and informal foster care, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She uses her lived experience in connecting with individuals, youth and families who experience hardship and attachment disruption.
Her ability to understand the neurodivergent comes from her lived experience, and her passion to learn and grow with her community while seeing strengths in others, and adapting the environment to invite the community to thrive. She supports multiple social service teams throughout Canada, including specializing in expression of distress through violence of youth to family.

Amanda Gauthier
MSW-IK, RSW
Amanda Gauthier is an Indigenous woman raised in child welfare who is now a mother, pipe carrier, partner, and university graduate. Despite the impact of stereotypes, Amanda found love and stability in her partner and family. In 2023, she completed her Master of Social Work – Indigenous Knowledge degree.
Her determination drives her passion for helping families overcome challenges. With over 15 years of experience in youth engagement and advocacy, Amanda uses a trauma-informed and strength-based approach as a child welfare supervisor, focusing on decolonizing systems affecting Indigenous children.
From Amanda: “Leadership should be circular, allowing those impacted by systemic barriers to be heard.”