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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Mental Health, Substance Use & Wellness

    Planned Crisis Respite

    This program provides out-of-home respite services for families coping with children who have a serious emotional disturbance

    • Respite
    • Emotional/Behavioral Supports
    • 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
    • Education

    Theresa Paplin School

    A New York State certified special education school that serves adolescents and young adults who live at our Ottilie Residential Treatment Facility or are referred by their school districts.

    • Special Education/Day Schools

37%

of the participants of our Young Adult Workforce Program on Rikers Island received a high school diploma or equivalency certificate upon transitioning into the community, 28% were enrolled in an education program

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