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.

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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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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

    Ottilie Residential Treatment Facility

    The Ottilie RTF provides adolescents and young adults with the most intensive residential mental health services available outside of a hospital.

    • Residential Programs
    • Medical Services
    • Mental Health Services
    • Emotional/Behavioral Supports
    • Employment/Job Readiness
    • Independent Living Skills
    • 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
    • Housing & Shelters

    Scattered Site Supportive Housing Program

    A program for young adults formerly in foster care, ages 18-25, that provides housing and case management support while young adults transition from foster care to independence

    • Transitional Housing
    • Housing Assistance
    • Education
    • Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities

    The Christopher School

    A New York State certified special education school that provides a therapeutic and residential setting for children with developmental disabilities

    • Residential Programs
    • Special Education/Day Schools

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2,000

youth, adults and children experiencing homelessness

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