
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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- 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
- 800.780.6510
- Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, Suffolk
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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
Family Shelters
SCO operate homeless shelters in Brooklyn and the Bronx that provide families a safe place to stay.
- Housing Assistance
- Homeless Shelters
- Residential Programs
- Youth & Family Resources
- Medical Services
- Mental Health Services
- Employment/Job Readiness
- Independent Living Skills
- 917.538.6061
- Bronx, Brooklyn
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- 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
- 718.674.7720
- Queens
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- Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities
In-Home Respite
In-home respite worker provides relief to the families caring for someone with a developmental disability.
- Developmental Disability Supports
- Respite
- 631.738.9034
- 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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- 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
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- Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities
Intermediate Care Facilities
ICFs are residences with 24-hour care for individuals with developmental disabilities that provide the highest level of care outside of a skilled nursing facility.
- Residential Programs
- Medical Services
- Independent Living Skills
- Queens