
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
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- Foster Care
Bethany Program
The Bethany Program is a Group Residence that provides 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
- 718.574.6300
- Brooklyn
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- 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
- 718.860.5056
- Bronx
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- 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
- 718.685.3850
- Brooklyn
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- Education
East Brooklyn 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
- 718.927.6880
- Brooklyn
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- Foster Care
Enhanced Family Foster Care – Brooklyn
Enhanced Family Foster Care provides temporary homes for children throughout Brooklyn 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
- 718.312.6400
- Brooklyn
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- 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
- 631.639.3600
- Nassau, Suffolk
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- 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
- 718.674.7700
- Queens
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- 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
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- 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
- 718.685.3850
- Brooklyn, Queens
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- Foster Care
LGBTQ Residential Program
We offer the only residential program in New York City for young people in care who identify as LGBTQ. Our programs provide 24-hour care in a uniquely affirming and healing…
- LGBTQ Support
- Educational Support
- Employment/Job Readiness
- Independent Living Skills
- Housing Assistance
- Brooklyn, Queens