Interwoven Family Care
Adaptive in-home support for families carrying a lot.
Interwoven Family Care helps Tacoma-area families with routines, transitions, caregiver capacity, and practical support in daily life.
Is This For Us?
When daily life is hard to hold
For the parts of family life that still feel hard after the appointment, diagnosis, school meeting, or therapy recommendation. You do not need the perfect words before we start.
- You need support with the in-between parts of care: building and keeping routines, working through difficult transitions, and meeting daily needs that are hard to carry alone.
- Your family is adjusting after a diagnosis or concern related to Autism, ADHD, development, sensory needs, school, or health.
- Mornings, evenings, bedtime, school drop-off, appointments, or leaving the house have become some of the hardest parts of the day.
- You need another steady adult who can support children, siblings, routines, and caregiver capacity at the same time.
- Therapy strategies, IEP or 504 goals, behavior plans, or provider recommendations make sense on paper but are hard to carry into daily life.
- Your child needs care shaped around regulation, communication, sensory needs, big feelings, independence, and your family's real rhythm.
- You are navigating IEP meetings, 504 plans, referrals, waitlists, appointments, resources, or advocacy decisions.
- You need practical help, breathing room, or respite without feeling judged, managed, or misunderstood.
Services
Ways IFC Helps
Family Support
Relationship-based care for families whose needs are more layered than standard childcare can hold.
This may include caregiver support, childcare, problem-solving, emotional steadiness, and a trusted sounding board as you navigate everyday life with children who need more individualized support.
Breathing Room
Sometimes help is having another capable adult in the room during the parts of the week that take the most out of everyone.
Practical support that reduces caregiver overwhelm, creates capacity, and gives your family more room to recover, connect, and reset.
Routines & Transitions
Bedtime. Mornings. Leaving the house. Sometimes the smallest parts of the day take the most energy.
This may include emotional regulation, sensory needs, skill-building, scaffolding independence, and practical strategies that help daily life feel steadier and more manageable.
Advocacy Support
Navigating schools, providers, IEP meetings, 504 plans, referrals, and service systems while carrying family life is harder than it needs to be.
Advocacy support includes meeting preparation, priority planning, and building confidence as you continue to advocate for your child and family.
Implementation & Resources
Turning therapy strategies, provider recommendations, school ideas, and resource lists into practical next steps at home.
We focus on solutions that fit your real life, capacity, household rhythm, and circumstances.
Environment Support
Shaping indoor and outdoor spaces so daily routines, regulation, independence, and transitions have less friction.
This may include environments that make sense for neurodivergent children, higher-support needs, caregivers, siblings, and the people who live there.
Every family brings a different mix of people, rhythms, needs, and capacity. We begin there.
Our Approach
Care That Starts With Understanding
Childcare is only one thread in the larger weave of family support, not the whole story.
Families are not a collection of separate needs. They are whole systems shaped by relationships, routines, values, care, stress, and capacity.
Interwoven Family Care begins by understanding the whole picture, then building care that fits the family in front of us.
Whole-Family Lens
Care considers children, caregivers, routines, relationships, and the household as a connected whole.
Adaptive by Design
Care changes as your family's season, needs, and circumstances change.
Rooted in Relationship
Trust comes first. Real support is built through consistency, curiosity, and respect.
Community through Care
Families are not meant to do this alone. Meaningful care includes connection, belonging, and access to the people, resources, and relationships that help families thrive.
How It Starts
A low-pressure conversation, step by step
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Reach out
Send an email or choose a 30-minute phone call slot with a little about your family and what life feels like right now.
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Have a conversation
You can start with what feels hardest, what is already working, what you have tried, or what you wish felt easier.
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Build the shape
Together, we talk through care that fits your needs, schedule, capacity, and real household rhythm.
Paying for Care
What Feels Realistic
Interwoven Family Care is private pay right now, and cost is something we can talk through in the first conversation. You do not need a perfect plan before reaching out. We can talk about what kind of support would help, what feels realistic, and what options may be worth exploring.
We are learning more about possible funding paths and family support resources. If you already receive services or support, you are welcome to ask whether there may be a connection.
Talking through care also means talking through what is sustainable for your family. IFC is still growing, and the goal is to work with families in a way that is honest, practical, and clear.
Ready to talk through what this could look like?
Choose a low-pressure call, or send an email if writing feels easier.
Prefer email? Write to bri@interwoven.care. Prefer a quick conversation? Choose a phone time that works for you.
About IFC
Built around real family life
Interwoven Family Care is made for the parts of family life that do not fit neatly into a preset service: routines, relationships, stress, capacity, values, chaos, and calm.
Care is shaped with families, not pushed onto them. The work begins with listening, documenting, noticing what is already happening, and building from there.
This work is for families needing practical, relationship-based help that respects the people who live there.
The goal is less stress, more steadiness, and more room for families to enjoy their time together.
Kind Words
Built on Trust
Bri has been a remarkable caregiver for both of my children, first when my oldest was a toddler and again years later with my younger child. She brings genuine warmth to families and is deeply invested in parent engagement. I have never seen someone connect with children the way she does.
One of my children is nonverbal and autistic, and Bri went above and beyond to connect with him through visual tools and his special interests. She is thorough, follows up with detailed care plans, and her expertise in child development shines through in every interaction. I trust her completely and highly recommend her holistic approach to anyone seeking exceptional child care and family support. I know any parent who walks through her door will feel the same trust and warmth we did.
Bri's holistic care for children, seeing and accepting them just as they are, is phenomenal. She has always shown up for our neurodivergent daughter with real presence and investment in our child's special interests and favorite activities. She brings the same warmth to the whole family and is a true partner in care.
Bri's reliability, strong background in early childhood education and child development, and excellent judgment are additional reasons we have always rested easy when our daughter has been in her care. I highly recommend her to families seeking child care or support, especially families with added layers of needs, including IEPs, 504s, diagnostic processes, and respite care. Our daughter adores Bri and always enjoys their time together.
Bri was an excellent caretaker for my child. She was patient and kind, and took my child's needs to heart. I wholeheartedly recommend her services.
About the Founder
Meeting People Where They Are
I'm Brianna (Bri) Waugh, founder of Interwoven Family Care. I built this work after more than a decade alongside children, caregivers, and families in early childhood centers, in-home care, and community programs.
Again and again, my work has brought me alongside children with higher support needs, neurodivergent children, and families holding several kinds of complexity at once. I am comfortable in the thick of family life: routines, transitions, big feelings, uncertainty, problem-solving, and the moments when everyone is doing their best and still needs more help.
My background includes Reggio Emilia-inspired programs, Montessori centers, Head Start and Early Head Start classrooms, in-home care, and community-based family support. I lean play-based and relationship-centered, with deep respect for environments that encourage independence, curiosity, critical thinking, rhythm, regulation, and belonging.
More than anything, I believe this work has to be specific to your family. I want families to reach out and talk with me, because your family's nuance matters. Your children, your household, your rhythms, your worries, your values, and your hopes all shape what care should look like for you.
FAQs
Common Questions
What areas do you serve?
IFC is based in Tacoma, Washington, and works with families in communities throughout Pierce County. Not sure whether you're in range? Reach out and we'll figure it out together.
Is IFC therapy or clinical treatment?
No. IFC is not therapy, clinical treatment, crisis intervention, or a replacement for medical or mental health professionals. IFC offers practical, relationship-based family support that can help carry recommendations, routines, and everyday care into real life.
Do you support more complex family needs?
Yes. This is central to our work. IFC works with families navigating all kinds of complex needs, including Autism, ADHD, sensory needs, developmental differences, and higher-support seasons. Care is shaped through listening, observation, and respect for what each person and the household as a whole are already communicating, so support can grow from real life.
What does "adaptive" care mean?
Adaptive care means the shape of our work follows the shape of your life. We do not ask families to fit into a preset menu. We build care around your real situation and adjust as your needs, rhythms, and seasons change.
What ages do you work with?
Birth through 18 is IFC's specialty, but our work is with whole families. Care may include caregivers, siblings, extended family, and the household as a whole. If you are wondering whether your situation fits, tell us about your children, your household, and what you're carrying. We'll talk together about what makes sense.
What does support look like?
Support is shaped around your family's real life. It might begin during the after-school or evening stretch, when everyone is tired, the next transition is coming, and the household still needs care, dinner, regulation, and connection.
In those moments, I may be another steady adult with your children: playing, helping with transitions, supporting big feelings, noticing communication needs, or helping the evening move with less overwhelm.
As I get to know your family, support may also include the pieces around care: folding laundry, loading dishes, organizing a space that is not working, preparing for an IEP meeting, building a calmer morning rhythm, or talking through what keeps feeling hard at home.
I pay attention to patterns, stress points, communication, and what might help tomorrow feel a little smoother. Support should feel steady, respectful, and relieving, like someone is noticing what is heavy and helping you carry it.
How does scheduling work?
Scheduling starts with a conversation about what your family needs: regular weekly care, support during mornings, after-school, evenings, or bedtime, help preparing for changes in school or family routines, breathing room during a hard season, or something in between. From there, we talk through what feels realistic, sustainable, and supportive for your household.
What are your rates?
Rates depend on the shape of care your family needs. We'll talk through pricing openly in your first conversation, including what is affordable and what options may be worth exploring. At this time, IFC is private pay and does not bill insurance directly.