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

    • Education

    Bronx Arena Transfer High School

    A Transfer High School that provides intensive support to promote academic success among young people who are over age and under-credited

    • Alternative Education
    • Employment/Job Readiness
    • 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
    • Mental Health, Substance Use & Wellness

    Children’s Community Residences

    These residences provide a supportive, home-like environment for adolescents who are ready for discharge from higher levels of care, but are not yet ready to return home

    • Residential Programs
    • Independent Living Skills
    • Queens, Suffolk
    • Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities

    Community Habilitation

    The Community Habilitation program teaches children and adults who are living at home daily living skills and gives them the opportunity to participate in activities that foster independence and will allow them to live in the community successfully.

    • Developmental Disability Supports
    • Independent Living Skills
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Family & Community Supports

    Family Supports – Long Island

    Programs, workshops, as well as individual and family counseling services both onsite and at home to help families through crises and help prevent crisis situations in the future. Our programs help build strong families and strong communities.

    • Family Crisis Prevention
    • Family/Parent/Individual Counseling
    • Youth & Family Resources
    • 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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