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

    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
    • Early Childhood

    Early Head Start

    High-quality childcare and parenting support to pregnant women and families with infants and toddlers.

    • Pregnancy Support
    • Parenting Support
    • Child Care
    • Early Childhood

    Family Child Care Networks – Queens

    In-home child care providers in East Elmhurst, Corona, Jackson Heights, Flushing, Rego Park, and Forest Hills offer families with infants, toddlers and preschoolers a full day, year-round program that fosters healthy development and learning.

    • Child Care
    • Early Childhood

    FirstStepNYC

    FirstStepNYC provides full-day, year-round childcare and education services for children 6 weeks through 5 years of age in Brownsville, Brooklyn.

    • Early Childhood Education Centers
    • 3K for All & Pre-K
    • Child Care
    • Pregnancy Support
    • Early Childhood

    Jerome Hardeman Early Childhood Center

    SCO’s Early Childhood Center fosters children’s cognitive, physical, social and emotional development, giving all children the tools they need to succeed in school and meet their full potential.

    • Early Childhood Education Centers
    • 3K for All & Pre-K
    • Child Care
    • Early Childhood

    Long Island City Early Childhood Center

    SCO’s Early Childhood Center fosters children’s cognitive, physical, social and emotional development, giving all children the tools they need to succeed in school and meet their full potential.

    • Early Childhood Education Centers
    • 3K for All & Pre-K
    • Child Care
    • Mental Health, Substance Use & Wellness

    Madonna Heights Family Service Mental Health Clinic

    The Madonna Heights Family Service Clinic is an outpatient mental health clinic, supporting families as they overcome obstacles and strengthen existing bonds

    • Mental Health Services
    • Family/Parent/Individual Counseling
    • Youth & Family Resources
    • Emotional/Behavioral Supports
    • Mental Health, Substance Use & Wellness

    Madonna Heights Group Residence

    A group residence offering an environment that teaches, strengthens, and encourages young women to heal from trauma.

    • Residential Programs
    • Mental Health Services
    • Emotional/Behavioral Supports
    • Independent Living Skills
    • Family/Parent/Individual Counseling
    • Youth & Family Resources
    • Health & Substance Use Referrals
    • Suffolk
    • Mental Health, Substance Use & Wellness

    Madonna Heights Residential Treatment Facility

    The Madonna Heights RTF provides adolescent girls and young women with the most intensive residential mental health services available outside of a hospital.

    • Residential Programs
    • Medical Services
    • Mental Health Services
    • Emotional/Behavioral Supports
    • Independent Living Skills
    • Family/Parent/Individual Counseling
    • Youth & Family Resources
    • Health & Substance Use Referrals

We shelter

2,000

youth, adults and children experiencing homelessness

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