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

    • Family & Community Supports

    Family Support Program – Bushwick

    SCO partners with families in Bushwick to prevent crises and enhance family well-being. We help families strengthen relationships and develop resources to solve problems.

    • Parenting Support
    • Family Crisis Prevention
    • Family/Parent/Individual Counseling
    • Youth & Family Resources
    • Family & Community Supports

    Fatherhood Program

    A support program that helps fathers reconnect with their children and develop essential parenting skills.

    • Parenting Support
    • Employment/Job Readiness
    • Family/Parent/Individual Counseling
    • Domestic Violence Prevention
    • 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
    • Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities

    Individual Residential Alternatives (IRA)

    IRAs are homes and apartments of 10 or fewer residents that prepare adults with developmental disabilities to become productive members of their communities.

    • Residential Programs
    • Medical Services
    • Independent Living Skills
    • Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, Suffolk
    • Youth Justice

    Juvenile Justice Initiative – Brooklyn

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

    • Recidivism Reduction
    • Educational Support
    • Family/Parent/Individual Counseling
    • 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
    • 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
    • Mental Health, Substance Use & Wellness

    Morning Star

    Our Morning Star residences provide women in recovery, including women with young children, with a safe, home-like environment focused on helping them develop a dependence free, self-supporting lifestyle.

    • Parenting Support
    • Child Care
    • Residential Programs
    • Family/Parent/Individual Counseling
    • Youth & Family Resources
    • Substance Use Recovery
    • Early Childhood

    Nurse-Family Partnership

    Registered Nurses provide in-home visits for first time mothers from pregnancy through the child’s second birthday.

    • Pregnancy Support
    • Parenting Support

We guide

10,400

youth to academic success and work readiness

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