The Connected in a Crisis initiative delivers workshops, coaching and an interactive maze to help people with an intellectual disability build digital health and emergency preparedness skills, supported by mentors.

These workshops aim to help participants:

• Access digital health solutions and disaster information more effectively — a need identified through co-design.
• Strengthen online social connections and support networks.
• Increase inclusion and community understanding by connecting local people with people with an intellectual disability and shifting mindsets.

During workshops and coaching sessions, barriers to digital inclusion for people with an intellectual disability will be identified and documented.

The findings will be shared with primary healthcare providers to develop practical, “low-hanging fruit” solutions to remove these barriers and improve digital health access and care pathways across the community.