OPTIONS | Transitions to Independence
Practical Adult Skills
Daily Living Skills for Young Adults Building Independence
Students learn daily routines and responsibilities through structured guidance, repeated practice, and increasing ownership in apartment-style living environments.
Practical Skills Students Practice
Students practice self-care, laundry, household organization, meal planning, grocery shopping, cooking, budgeting, scheduling, and everyday problem-solving. Coaches help break complex routines into manageable steps, then reduce prompts as students demonstrate consistent performance.
Practical Responsibility in Everyday Life
Daily living instruction is designed to move beyond knowing what to do toward reliably doing it. Repeated practice, reflection, and accountability help students establish routines they can carry into future apartments, college settings, employment, and community life.
Skills Are Connected to the Student’s Program Phase
Standard Phase students receive more direct instruction and oversight. Modified Phase students manage more of their routines with coaching. Extension Phase emphasizes problem-solving and self-management with limited support as students prepare for life beyond OPTIONS.
Adult Life Happens Every Day
Turn Daily Responsibilities Into Repeatable Routines
Daily living instruction focuses on the ordinary responsibilities that often determine whether independence lasts. Students practice planning meals, shopping, preparing food, maintaining personal routines, managing laundry, organizing their time and handling fiscal responsibilities with a level of guidance matched to their current competence.
- Menu planning and grocery shopping
- Meal preparation and kitchen routines
- Personal hygiene, laundry and organization
- Fiscal management and responsible scheduling
Practical Skills Students Practice
- Personal hygiene and self-care
- Laundry and personal belongings
- Apartment cleanliness and organization
- Meal planning and grocery shopping
- Cooking and kitchen safety
- Budgeting and spending awareness
- Daily scheduling and routines
- Problem-solving and responsible decisions
Practical Responsibility in Everyday Life
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.
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How This Connects Across OPTIONS
Daily Living Skills are taught within the broader apartment-based independent living program.
Planning and organization are reinforced through executive functioning support after high school.
Students apply scheduling and community skills through recreation and community participation.
Reliability in daily routines also supports the vocational training pathway.
Expectations change according to the three-phase transition model.
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