After school based services end, many families need adult support through the Regional Center or the Self Determination Program. BTTR helps adults build routines, transportation skills, communication, social confidence, community access, money skills, and real life independence.

Yes. Regional Center services may support independence through Independent Living Services, Coordinated Family Support, Tailored Day Services, respite, and other approved supports based on the person’s IPP goals and assessed needs.

Independent Living Services focuses on helping the participant build daily living skills. Coordinated Family Support focuses on helping the family organize care, services, routines, communication, benefits, and home stability when an adult lives with family.

Yes. Many capable autistic adults still need help with executive functioning, planning, anxiety, burnout, transportation, social communication, routines, money management, and daily independence. Support is based on real life needs, not labels.

This is common and can be connected to anxiety, burnout, sensory overwhelm, depression, fear, or loss of structure. BTTR helps rebuild confidence through gradual community exposure, predictable routines, transportation support, and low pressure real world practice.

Yes. BTTR does not provide ABA therapy. Our support focuses on life skills, dignity, communication, self advocacy, executive functioning, routines, community access, and real world participation for adults.

Yes. BTTR can help with planning, scheduling, reminders, task initiation, organization, routines, time management, transitions, technology tools, and reducing daily overwhelm.

BTTR works with Regional Center of the East Bay and Golden Gate Regional Center for certain services. Through the Self Determination Program, BTTR can support participants statewide across California when approved in the spending plan.

BTTR supports participants in Fremont, Newark, Union City, Hayward, Oakland, Berkeley, San Leandro, Alameda, Walnut Creek, Concord, San Jose, Palo Alto, Redwood City, San Mateo, San Francisco, Marin, and nearby Bay Area communities.

Yes. Goals may include communication, community participation, relationship building, healthy boundaries, social confidence, recreation, and reducing isolation through real life experiences.

Yes. Transportation support may include BART, buses, maps, transit apps, safety awareness, route planning, Clipper card routines, ride coordination, and public transportation confidence throughout the Bay Area.

SDP may fund individualized services such as ILS, TDS, respite, supported living style support, community integration, transportation training, executive functioning support, life skills coaching, and other supports connected to approved goals and the spending plan.

Yes. SDP gives participants more choice over services and providers. Families can choose BTTR when the support matches the person centered plan, approved spending plan, and FMS requirements.

Yes. BTTR supports many communication styles including AAC devices, typing, gestures, visual supports, written communication, and supported communication approaches.

Yes. BTTR supports adults with autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, epilepsy, and other developmental disabilities through person centered services.

BTTR focuses on modern support, clear communication, dignity, technology, real world goals, executive functioning, and person centered coaching instead of cold, generic, or institutional support.

Adulthood often removes school structure, daily routines, social exposure, and built in support. Many autistic adults need help rebuilding adult routines, confidence, community access, and meaningful goals after transition age services end.

Yes. Adults can continue learning cooking, cleaning, budgeting, transportation, hygiene routines, scheduling, self advocacy, community safety, and social confidence at any age.

Isolation may come from anxiety, sensory overload, burnout, depression, fear of social mistakes, lack of transportation, or lack of meaningful opportunities. BTTR helps rebuild connection slowly and respectfully.

Yes. BTTR helps adults explore interests, community events, social routines, shared activities, communication skills, and safe opportunities to connect with others in natural settings.

Yes. Support may include healthy boundaries, consent, communication, online safety, emotional understanding, relationship expectations, and self advocacy in a respectful way.

Regional Center and SDP services may support job readiness, volunteering, workplace communication, transportation, routines, interview preparation, and employment related goals when included in the plan.

Challenges may include burnout, sensory overload, social expectations, communication differences, executive functioning, transportation, anxiety, and lack of workplace support rather than lack of ability.

Yes. BTTR may support punctuality, routines, transportation, workplace communication, volunteering, applications, confidence, emotional regulation, and executive functioning connected to work goals.

Yes. Support may include campus navigation, calendars, scheduling, communication with disability services, transportation, organization, workload planning, and executive functioning.

Burnout can come from masking, sensory overload, social pressure, executive functioning demands, inconsistent routines, transitions, and trying to manage adult responsibilities without enough support.

Yes. Many adults do not need 24 hour care but still need help with routines, transportation, social life, executive functioning, safety, money management, and community participation.

The Self Determination Program gives Regional Center participants more control over their services, providers, schedule, budget, and goals through a person centered plan and spending plan.

Yes. BTTR can support budgeting, safe spending, shopping, price comparison, saving goals, debit card use, online payments, subscriptions, and basic financial awareness.

Yes. ILS may support cooking, cleaning, laundry, grocery shopping, hygiene, organization, meal planning, home safety, and other practical daily living skills.

Hygiene and routine struggles may be connected to sensory sensitivities, executive functioning, depression, anxiety, burnout, overwhelm, or inconsistent structure. Support should be practical and shame free.

Yes. Travel training can include BART, AC Transit, VTA, SamTrans, Muni, Caltrain, maps, apps, safety, transfers, Clipper cards, and route practice across the Bay Area.

Support may include travel training, public transit coaching, route planning, ride coordination, safety awareness, transportation routines, and community access through Regional Center or SDP services.

Families may explore respite, CFS, ILS, SDP services, transportation support, community support, and routines that reduce caregiver stress while helping the adult build more independence.

Families often need long term planning around caregiving, housing, benefits, support circles, community access, daily routines, and future safety. Starting earlier creates more stability.

Yes. Anxiety, depression, loneliness, burnout, masking fatigue, trauma, and social isolation are common among autistic adults and adults with developmental disabilities.

Burnout can come from masking, sensory overload, social pressure, executive functioning strain, transitions, chronic stress, unrealistic expectations, and not having enough support.

Many autistic adults can live independently or semi independently with the right combination of routines, reminders, transportation, support staff, safety planning, benefits, and community access.

Support may include Coordinated Family Support, ILS, respite, transportation coaching, executive functioning support, community access, self advocacy, and adult life planning.

Yes. BTTR supports participants throughout the Bay Area including Fremont, Newark, Union City, Hayward, Oakland, Berkeley, Walnut Creek, Concord, San Jose, San Mateo, San Francisco, Marin, and nearby cities.

Adults may access ILS, CFS, TDS, respite, transportation support, executive functioning coaching, community integration, social skills support, SDP services, and other Regional Center funded supports.

BTTR can help families understand how IHSS may connect with Regional Center services, CFS, ILS, and family support planning, while recognizing that IHSS itself is managed by the county.

BTTR may help participants build practical awareness around benefits, budgeting, CalABLE basics, money routines, bill reminders, and safer spending habits as part of approved service goals.

Yes. BTTR supports adults with cerebral palsy and related developmental disabilities through person centered support focused on independence, routines, communication, community access, and daily life needs.

Yes. Support may include appointment preparation, calendars, transportation planning, questions to ask, follow up reminders, communication support, and organizing health related routines.

BTTR can support practical calming tools, routine planning, sensory awareness, preparation for stressful situations, coping strategies, and reducing overwhelm in daily life.

Yes. Transition support may include previewing plans, visual schedules, reminders, step by step preparation, calming strategies, flexible pacing, and predictable routines.

Yes. Morning and evening routines can include hygiene, meals, medication reminders, planning, sleep preparation, laundry, organization, calendars, and reducing daily stress.

Yes. Technology support may include scam awareness, social media safety, texting boundaries, email communication, privacy, online purchases, app safety, and safer digital habits.

BTTR focuses on balance rather than punishment. Support can help adults build routines, community activities, social opportunities, movement, goals, and meaningful activities outside the screen.

Yes. BTTR may help participants and families organize goals, concerns, support needs, daily challenges, progress, and questions so the IPP conversation is clearer and more person centered.

Yes. BTTR supports adults and families in Contra Costa County communities including Walnut Creek, Concord, Pleasant Hill, San Ramon, Danville, Richmond, Antioch, and nearby areas.

Yes. BTTR supports participants in Alameda County communities including Fremont, Newark, Union City, Hayward, Oakland, Berkeley, San Leandro, Alameda, Dublin, Pleasanton, and Livermore.

Yes. BTTR supports participants in San Mateo County, San Francisco, Marin, Redwood City, Daly City, South San Francisco, Menlo Park, San Rafael, Novato, and surrounding GGRC communities.

Through the Self Determination Program, BTTR can support approved participants in San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Milpitas, Cupertino, and surrounding Santa Clara County communities.

Families can contact BTTR directly, ask their Regional Center Service Coordinator for a referral, or work with their Independent Facilitator and FMS if using the Self Determination Program.