OPTIONS | Transitions to Independence
Confidential Admissions Consultation
Start the Conversation About Your Student’s Next Step
This is not a commitment. It is a first step toward understanding whether OPTIONS aligns with your student’s readiness, goals, and support needs.
Tell Us a Little About Your Student
The pre-application helps the admissions team understand strengths, current challenges, goals, and support needs.
The First Conversation Is About Clarity
Admissions staff use the initial conversation to understand the student’s current situation, goals, challenges, and readiness. Families can ask direct questions about academics, vocational pathways, independent living, support levels, timing, and whether OPTIONS appears to be an appropriate next step.
Pre-Application
Start With a Simple Fit Conversation
Complete the form below and our admissions team will follow up to help you understand possible next steps.
Your information is used by the admissions team to respond to your inquiry and discuss program fit.
Start With the Student, Not the Sales Pitch
Tell Us What Independence Needs to Look Like Next
A first conversation is a chance to describe the young adult behind the records: what is going well, where independence breaks down, what happened after high school, and what the family hopes will be different in the next few years. That context helps the admissions team determine whether a deeper fit conversation makes sense.
- Current academic or college experience
- Employment interests and workplace readiness
- Daily living strengths and areas requiring support
- Executive functioning, communication and self-advocacy needs
A First Step, Not a Commitment
Tell Us a Little About Your Student
Use the short pre-application form to help our admissions team understand your student’s strengths, current challenges, and goals.
- Your information is reviewed by the admissions team
- We look at readiness, goals, and support needs
- We help you understand whether OPTIONS may be a fit
- You receive guidance about appropriate next steps
This form starts a conversation. It does not commit your family to enrollment.
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(618) 549-4201
admissionsinfo@brehm.org
Pre-Application
Start With a Simple Fit Conversation
Complete the form below and our admissions team will follow up to help you understand possible next steps.
Your information is used by the admissions team to respond to your inquiry and discuss program fit.
Connected Support
How This Connects Across OPTIONS
The first conversation is the beginning of the OPTIONS admissions process.
Families can ask how support changes through the three-phase transition model.
Questions about college readiness can include the academic and college support pathways.
Employment goals can be explored through the vocational training pathway.
Daily-life readiness can be discussed in relation to the independent living program.
Start a Conversation
A Clearer Path Forward Starts With Understanding Fit
OPTIONS does not expect independence all at once. An admissions conversation is a practical first step to understand readiness, support needs, and whether the program aligns with your student.
Admissions Conversation
Begin with a confidential conversation focused on fit, not pressure.
Start a ConversationQuestions about readiness, timing, academics, living, or vocational pathways are welcome.
admissionsinfo@brehm.org