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

    • 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 and Family Treatment and Support Services (CFTSS)

    Integrated community supports that help children (under 21) and their families with emotional and behavioral health needs improve their health, well-being, and quality of life.

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

    High Fidelity Wraparound

    High Fidelity Wraparound (HFW) provides services for youth ages 12-21 with high acuity, complex mental health needs and their families. HFW is a youth-guided, family-driven planning process that uses an…

    • Mental Health Services
    • Emotional/Behavioral Supports
    • Care Management
    • Housing & Shelters

    Independence Inns

    The Independence Inns provide shelter and support for homeless and runaway youth, including young moms with children, to help them become self-sufficient.

    • Educational Support
    • Employment/Job Readiness
    • Independent Living Skills
    • Housing Assistance
    • Transitional Housing
    • Residential Programs
    • Youth Justice

    Juvenile Justice Initiative – Queens

    JJI works intensively with court-involved youth and their families in their homes throughout Queens to help change delinquent behavior.

    • Recidivism Reduction
    • Educational Support
    • Family/Parent/Individual Counseling
    • Education

    North Queens Community 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
    • Mental Health, Substance Use & Wellness

    Ottilie Residential Treatment Facility

    The Ottilie RTF provides adolescents and young adults with the most intensive residential mental health services available outside of a hospital.

    • Residential Programs
    • Medical Services
    • Mental Health Services
    • Emotional/Behavioral Supports
    • Employment/Job Readiness
    • Independent Living Skills
    • Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities

    Robert J. McMahon Children’s Center

    RJMCC serves children and adolescents with developmental disabilities at its Residential Treatment Center and its certified special education school, the Tyree Learning Center

    • Residential Programs

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11,200

children and teens through academic, after-school, summer and work readiness programs

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