You became a teacher because you wanted to make a difference. Every day, you already:
Those skills can help you move to the next level now.
SOS Franchising lets you stay in education, become an active business owner, and make a difference for children with autism and their families — a standout among education franchise opportunities, keeping you close to children while you build a business of your own.
Ready for business ownership without leaving your purpose? SOS can help you explore what comes next.
See how your experience in education can translate into business ownership with SOS Franchising. Discover how SOS helps educators take their skills beyond the classroom and build a business with purpose.
After years in education, you may be ready for something different.
That does not mean you have to walk away from the work that matters to you.
Teaching has already set you up for so much of what running your own business really looks like. Every day you’re juggling schedules, figuring things out on the fly, connecting with families, managing people, dealing with surprises, and creating spaces where kids can actually learn and grow.
You’ve put in the years, and you’re good at this stuff. Why not use it to build something that’s yours?
Owning a SOS Franchising center could be that for you.
You bring everything you’ve learned. SOS brings the business know-how to make it happen.
SOS Franchising is an autism treatment franchise that offers ABA therapy and other autism services to kids.
The whole thing started because someone wanted to actually do this right. Provide real, solid autism treatment, but also make sure kids, their families, and the staff actually feel good about being there.
For teachers, especially if you’ve worked in special education or spent time with autistic kids, owning an SOS center could be exactly what you’re looking for.
You’re not stuck underneath an administration’s rules. You get to build your own team.
Instead of helping one group of students each year, you get to create something that reaches families across your whole community.
And instead of starting a business from scratch, you’re joining a franchise that already exists, with people ready to train you, resources you can actually use, and real support along the way.
We connect you with real estate experts, who know what sites work for SOS centers.We guide you through our location approval process.We provide proven build-out designs to maximize your space.
We refer you to our preferred lender, who will help you choose the best option among SBA, conventional, or ROBS programs.We connect you with independent professional affiliates who specialise in creating lender-ready business plans and pro-formas.
We connect you with operating SOS centers for your validation calls.
SOS maintains employer branded hubs for Indeed and Glassdoor to attract top talent.We provide you with a complete employment toolkit: job descriptions, applications, interview questions, and offer letters.We provide live interview support to help you hire key staff.
We provide a list of local insurance payors and estimated reimbursement rates.We assist with applications for unlimited in-network contracts.
You inherit a trusted national brand with proven results.We will provide a conversion-optimized local webpage for your location.Our in-house production team will create a professional Grand Opening video.You will gain access to our library of pre-made picture and video advertising assets.
You and your key staff will complete an intensive two-week training program at our corporate office, covering both the operational and clinical sides of running a successful ABA center.
We will provide access to our custom operations software with integrations that streamline onboarding and payroll.We will give you access to our Enterprise Gmail suite with pre-set security and compliance settings.
We design, stock, and ship all logo uniforms, branded products, and marketing materials.
We post your community events on Eventbrite to drive attendance.Our attorneys work to remove damaging one- and two-star reviews from Indeed, Glassdoor, and Google.
Your staff gain full access to our LMS platform, including onboarding videos.We provide unlimited licenses to our 40-hour RBT certification course.SOS continuously updates our staff training video library, including CUEs and PDUs.
We provide one dedicated support team member for every seven locations.We provide unlimited live support through our instant chat or video chat. Always a real human, never a bot.We help you navigate changes in regulations, payer requirements, and industry updates.
We establish partnerships with universities to give your staff tuition discounts, increasing retention and job satisfaction.These partnerships also offer you direct pipelines for hiring interns, lowering recruiting costs and creating future clinicians.
SOS will provide biannual quality assurance audits with a performance report and actionable recommendations to help you continuously improve.The first SOS center opened in 2015. It was the first autism treatment franchise anyone had really done in the United States. Now they're still doing the same thing: getting autism services to more kids while keeping things honest, actually good, and making sure families are in the loop.
An SOS center isn’t just therapy rooms, though.
The real goal is building a place that families actually trust. A place where people who work there actually want to be. A place their community actually needs.
If you’ve spent your career in special education, autism support, behavioral classrooms, inclusion programs, or anything like that, you’ve probably seen it. You’ve watched the right help actually change a kid’s life.
You already understand the importance of early intervention, individualized support, consistency, and patience.
Now imagine taking that experience beyond a single classroom. Imagine leading a team of professionals who share your commitment to helping children. Imagine creating a center where families in your community can access autism services.
Your next career does not have to mean abandoning everything you have spent years learning.
It can mean building on it.
Teaching may have been your first way to make an impact. This one allows you to take the skills you have spent years developing and use them to lead a team, serve families, build a business, and continue changing children’s lives.
Discover whether owning a SOS Franchising center is the right next chapter for you.
This page is for informational purposes only and is not an offer to sell a franchise. An offer can only be made through a Franchise Disclosure Document in applicable jurisdictions.