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 services, 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.
Job Coaches are responsible to collaborate with an educational treatment team and manage and implement relevant IEP goals. They provide necessary trainings and activities to develop transitional related skill sets in students to successfully enter the competitive world of higher education, employment and independent living.
This includes developing and managing activities with students to socialize them within competitive community-based environments and learn to meet expectations of each environment. This can be a particular job, volunteer or higher education sites. Job Coaches also help students study for and obtain industry certifications
Staff must be able to genuinely empathize and connect with students.
Job Coaches must be able to obtain an A or V endorsement in their drivers license.
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.