After over a year of planning, prototyping, and relationship building with members of the disability community all over the world, AbleThrive.com has released its first website. AbleThrive is the brainchild of Brittany (Martin) Déjean, the co-founder of the popular SCI video-sharing site Spinalpedia.com.

“The more time I spent online looking for disability resources and the more people I talked to, the more I realized it was getting increasingly difficult to find what you need or to get attention for what you posted or a program you created,” she says. “I started talking to both sides of the equation and saw a gap.”

Déjean created the free platform to provide a hub that facilitates sharing the growing amount of high-quality disability-related blogs, articles videos and programs on the Internet with the ultimate goal of helping people with disabilities and their families live their lives to the fullest.

“So much of the content from amazing people, organizations and hospitals all over the world is buried on the Internet,” she says. “Now I’m working with those creating content and making it accessible in one go-to platform.”

AbleThrive has launched featuring content from 21 organizations, 10 blogs and one hospital representing four countries. The focus for the first month is on parenting and paralysis, but Déjean has plans to expand. AbleThrive will cover a new topic each month in this launch phase, growing a base of quality information that is categorized to maximize searching efficiency.

The goal is two-fold — make life-changing information about living well with a disability accessible to anyone with an Internet connection and give people, organizations and hospitals without marketing resources a means to share their quality content with more of their target beneficiaries.

“I found we are all working so hard in our own corners of the world trying to solve the same problems,” she says. “A lot of the solutions are out there, we just don’t know where to find them. By launching AbleThrive, we’re opening the doors of collaboration to the global disability community so we can accelerate the path to adaptation and acceptance,” says Déjean, who was introduced to the world of SCI when her father, Paul, was paralyzed.