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
    • 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
    • Early Childhood

    Corona Early Childhood Center

    The Corona UPK Center offers a year-round, full-day Pre-K program that focuses on healthy development and preparing children for success in school.

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

    Enhanced Family Foster Care – Long Island

    Enhanced Family Foster Care provides temporary homes for children across Long Island until they can be returned home. Therapeutic Family Foster Care provides a higher level of out-of-home family care for children with severe emotional and behavioral challenges in foster care.

    • Educational Support
    • Employment/Job Readiness
    • Independent Living Skills
    • Housing Assistance
    • Foster Care

    Enhanced Family Foster Care – Queens

    Enhanced Family Foster Care provides temporary homes for children throughout Queens until they can be returned home. Therapeutic Family Foster Care provides a higher level of out-of-home family care for children with severe emotional and behavioral challenges in foster care.

    • Educational Support
    • Employment/Job Readiness
    • Independent Living Skills
    • Housing Assistance
    • Foster Care

    Family Foster Care – Education & Permanency Support Services

    A program that helps children and families in foster care receive the assistance and services they need to achieve reunification and other permanency goals

    • Educational Support
    • Employment/Job Readiness
    • Independent Living Skills
    • Housing Assistance
    • Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, Suffolk
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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

We serve

900

children and youth in foster care

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