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

    Family Child Care Networks – Queens

    In-home child care providers in East Elmhurst, Corona, Jackson Heights, Flushing, Rego Park, and Forest Hills offer families with infants, toddlers and preschoolers a full day, year-round program that fosters healthy development and learning.

    • Child Care
    • 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
    • Mental Health, Substance Use & Wellness

    High Fidelity Wraparound

    High Fidelity Wraparound (HFW) provides services for youth ages 12-21 with high acuity, complex mental health needs and their families. HFW is a youth-guided, family-driven planning process that uses an…

    • Mental Health Services
    • Emotional/Behavioral Supports
    • Care Management
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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

We shelter

2,000

youth, adults and children experiencing homelessness

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