Job Description:

Options is an APSEP located in a large historic home in the West End of Hartford. Our goal is to develop the whole student through the process of implementing required teachings and experiences that are healing and developmental.  All services are Transition informed. We provide services to about 20 middle, high school and transition students ages 11- 22. Students receive very individualized academics many times 1:1 and participate in daily community-based activities. 

Students receive such individualized services to specifically target their areas of needed growth. They do not require low staff to student ratio for behavioral reasons. 

Teachers are responsible to collaborate with an educational treatment team and manage and implement relevant IEP goals providing necessary instructional accommodations and strategies to help the student learn in their most productive manner.

Staff need to be able to genuinely empathize and connect with students.

Therapeutically, Options helps student understand and address feelings, thoughts and behaviors that are counterproductive to their growth. Options team consists of disciplines in psychiatry, neuropsychology, clinical counseling, vocational and educational rehabilitation and SPL. 

Students are taught about their disabilities and symptoms that impede their progress and how to advocate and work with professionals to help minimize the impact or eliminate symptoms. 

Student who attend Options have a variety of disabilities and all are safe to program for in house and in the community. Some of the disabilities include; specific learning disabilities, anxiety, mood and thought disorders, PTSD, attachment disorders and autism.