Programs

For more than 130 years, SCO has delivered programs and services to New York’s most under-resourced communities, offering long-term, life-changing results. Through our vast network of programs, we offer a continuum of care and services that gets young children off to a good start, launches youth into adulthood, stabilizes and strengthens families, and unlocks potential for children and adults with special needs.

All Programs

    • Housing & Shelters

    Adult and Family Shelters

    SCO operate homeless shelters throughout Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx that provide individuals and families a safe place to stay.

    • Housing Assistance
    • Homeless Shelters
    • Residential Programs
    • Youth & Family Resources
    • Medical Services
    • Mental Health Services
    • Employment/Job Readiness
    • Independent Living Skills
    • Family & Community Supports

    Bethany Food Pantry

    Our Brooklyn food pantry distributes emergency supplies of groceries to help provide individuals and families in need through a time of crisis.

    • Food Insecurity
    • Foster Care

    Bethany Program

    The Bethany Program consists of Group Residences that provide a supportive home environment for pregnant and parenting teens in foster care.

    • Educational Support
    • Employment/Job Readiness
    • Independent Living Skills
    • Housing Assistance
    • Pregnancy Support
    • Parenting Support
    • Education

    Bronx Arena Transfer High School

    A Transfer High School that provides intensive support to promote academic success among young people who are over age and under-credited

    • Alternative Education
    • Employment/Job Readiness
    • Housing & Shelters

    Brooklyn Youth Center

    Provides homeless and at-risk youth and their families with information and access to a variety of services and helps them find temporary housing.

    • Housing Assistance
    • Family Crisis Prevention
    • Youth & Family Resources
    • Food Insecurity
    • Health & Substance Use Referrals
    • Mental Health, Substance Use & Wellness

    Care Management

    SCO helps manage and coordinate eligible children and young adults’ health care, behavioral health and service needs to make sure all needs are being met.

    • Care Management
    • Medical Services
    • Mental Health Services
    • Emotional/Behavioral Supports
    • Youth & Family Resources
    • Mental Health, Substance Use & Wellness

    Children’s Community Residences

    These residences provide a supportive, home-like environment for adolescents who are ready for discharge from higher levels of care, but are not yet ready to return home

    • Residential Programs
    • Independent Living Skills
    • Queens, Suffolk
    • Youth Justice

    Close to Home Residences

    Residences for adjudicated youth that provide intensive, wraparound services for both the youth and his/her family.

    • Recidivism Reduction
    • Residential Programs
    • Educational Support
    • Bronx
    • Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities

    Community Habilitation

    The Community Habilitation program teaches children and adults who are living at home daily living skills and gives them the opportunity to participate in activities that foster independence and will allow them to live in the community successfully.

    • Developmental Disability Supports
    • Independent Living Skills
    • Mental Health, Substance Use & Wellness

    Community Outreach Service Center

    Provides employment, entitlement assistance, and supportive services for SRO residents and other dual-diagnosed young adults in the community.

    • Employment/Job Readiness

82%

of residents in our group homes for adults with developmental disabilities attended Day Habilitation and receive vocational services

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