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

    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
    • 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
    • Family & Community Supports

    Family Treatment and Rehabilitation – Queens

    Supportive services for families with a caregiver or child with substance abuse or mental health issues. Also known as intensive preventive services, FTR programs offer the same basic services offered by Family Counseling and Support Programs, but these services are modified and/or intensified to meet the family’s specific needs.

    • Parenting Support
    • Mental Health Services
    • Family Crisis Prevention
    • Family/Parent/Individual Counseling
    • Youth & Family Resources
    • Health & Substance Use Referrals
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Early Childhood

    Morris Koppelman 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
    • Foster Care

    Residential Living for Youth in Foster Care

    Group residences that provide a supportive home environment for youth in foster care who have multiple challenges including mental illness, substance abuse, alcoholism or delinquency. We also offer residential programs for young people who identify as LGBTQ as well as programs for youth with developmental disability and behavioral health conditions.

    • Educational Support
    • Employment/Job Readiness
    • Independent Living Skills
    • Housing Assistance
    • LGBTQ Support
    • Developmental Disability Supports

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youth who were at risk of dropping out graduated from our three transfer high schools in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx

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