Making ADHD care more accessible.

Threadline is a social enterprise: a business created to solve a social problem, with that purpose built into how it operates. We exist to help children and families receive earlier understanding, clearer pathways and better coordinated support.

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Families should not have to spend years assembling the picture.

ADHD assessment and care can be delayed, fragmented and difficult to navigate. Families may wait months or years, pay significant private costs, repeat the same story across disconnected services and struggle to understand what information is needed or what should happen next.

Clinicians may receive incomplete information and spend scarce time gathering and coordinating evidence rather than focusing on clinical judgement. These barriers can be even greater for families facing financial, geographic or service-access constraints.

Children and families are at the centre.

Our primary beneficiaries are children and young people with possible ADHD, and the parents and carers supporting them.

We also aim to benefit:
  • Families facing financial, geographic or service-access barriers
  • Clinicians working with incomplete information and constrained time
  • Schools and care providers trying to coordinate support
  • The broader health system, through better use of scarce clinical capacity

Bring the evidence together. Keep clinical judgement central.

Threadline helps families collect and organise information from families, children, teachers and existing care providers into a structured, source-attributed picture that can be shared with the clinician.

Today, that means helping families prepare a structured Assessment Package and Assessment Evidence Report. Better preparation can reduce fragmentation, identify missing information and create a stronger foundation for assessment.

This is preparation, not diagnosis. Qualified clinicians remain responsible for assessment, diagnosis and treatment decisions.

Better preparation can lead to better care.

When families are guided to collect and organise the right information:

  1. The available evidence becomes more complete and easier to review
  2. Families arrive better informed and prepared
  3. Clinicians spend less time gathering background information
  4. Scarce clinical time can focus on judgement, uncertainty and complexity
  5. Assessment and care can become more coordinated and accessible

One connected pathway across the ADHD journey.

Over time, our vision is to support children and families from first concern through assessment, treatment and ongoing care. Our aim is not simply to make one appointment easier. It is to help the whole journey work better.

  • Identification. Helping families understand concerns and find the right pathway.
  • Assessment. Bringing together the information required for a high-quality, whole-child assessment.
  • Treatment. Supporting evidence-based care and coordination.
  • Ongoing care. Helping families connect plans, reviews, outcomes and changing needs over time.

We will measure what changes for families and clinicians.

As Threadline launches and grows, we intend to monitor:

  • The number of families completing the preparation pathway
  • Whether families feel clearer and better prepared
  • Whether clinicians find the reports useful and well organised
  • Whether relevant evidence is more complete at assessment
  • Whether families experience less duplication and confusion
  • Participation by rural, regional and financially disadvantaged families
  • The number of families receiving hardship or subsidised access
  • Whether Threadline helps make better use of scarce clinical capacity

We are at an early stage. We will develop and publish our evidence as the service grows.

What guides us.

  • Families first. We design around the needs, dignity and control of families.
  • Evidence before opinion. We use established guidance and clearly distinguish evidence from interpretation.
  • Clinical judgement stays central. Threadline supports qualified clinicians. It does not replace them.
  • Parents stay in control. Families can review and control how their information is shared.
  • Access matters. We aim to reduce financial, geographic and navigation barriers over time.
  • Learn openly. We will measure what works, acknowledge what does not and improve the service accordingly.

OUR PURPOSE STATEMENT

Threadline exists to improve equitable access to high-quality, evidence-based ADHD assessment and care, helping children and families receive earlier understanding, clearer pathways and better coordinated support.

Every part of the story, connected.

We are building Threadline so families spend less time assembling the story and more time getting the care and support their child needs.

How Threadline works