About Access Navigator
I’m Michael. I live in Orange County, California, with my family, and we’re raising two disabled daughters. Our family has had a relationship with the Regional Center system, IHSS, Medi-Cal, and the foster care system for years. We know what it feels like when every agency has its own rules and none of them talk to each other.
Our family has navigated every part of this system firsthand. Finding the right therapies, managing medical appointments, working with the schools, sorting through the complications that come when your child’s care touches every agency at once. We’ve been in the meetings, on the phone calls, and filling out the paperwork. We’ve experienced the heartaches, headaches, and triumphs that come with raising disabled children.
What we kept running into was the same problem from every direction. A government website would get us started, but the real path forward always came from a person at the agency who could explain how things actually worked. The problem was that person only knew their agency. The next phone call was a different worker, a different system, a different set of rules. We’d take the wrong route, circle back, collect different documentation, and start over. Multiply that across Regional Center, IHSS, the school district, Medi-Cal, and medical providers, and you start to understand how families lose months just trying to figure out what their next steps are on the path to connecting with the services they or their child needs.
It shouldn’t take that long to find your footing. But it does, because no one place connects all the pieces.
I built Access Navigator because we couldn’t find a tool that did that. Something that could take where a family is right now and lay out a clear, specific plan for the next move across every system that applies to their situation.
That’s what this tool does. No login. No data stored. Free.
Access Navigator covers IHSS, Regional Center services, IEPs, school aide requests, age-3 transition planning, and Coordinated Family Support for adult children living at home. It’s built for California families, and every recommendation is grounded in current California program rules.
I also work in workforce strategy, advising business owners on operations and compliance. That background shapes how this tool is built: structured, accurate, and designed to hold up under scrutiny.
Access Navigator sits under Nova Parent Collective LLC, an Orange County company.
For partnership or institutional inquiries: michael@novaparentcollective.com