
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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- Family & Community Supports
Fatherhood Program
A support program that helps fathers reconnect with their children and develop essential parenting skills.
- Parenting Support
- Employment/Job Readiness
- Family/Parent/Individual Counseling
- Domestic Violence Prevention
- 347.554.0076
- Brooklyn
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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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- Youth Justice
Juvenile Justice Initiative – Brooklyn
JJI works intensively with court-involved youth and their families in their homes throughout Brooklyn to help change delinquent behavior.
- Recidivism Reduction
- Educational Support
- Family/Parent/Individual Counseling
- 718.674.8445
- Brooklyn
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- 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
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- Mental Health, Substance Use & Wellness
Madonna Heights Group Residence
A group residence offering an environment that teaches, strengthens, and encourages young women to heal from trauma.
- Residential Programs
- Mental Health Services
- Emotional/Behavioral Supports
- Independent Living Skills
- Family/Parent/Individual Counseling
- Youth & Family Resources
- Health & Substance Use Referrals
- Suffolk
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- Mental Health, Substance Use & Wellness
Madonna Heights Residential Treatment Facility
The Madonna Heights RTF provides adolescent girls and young women with the most intensive residential mental health services available outside of a hospital.
- Residential Programs
- Medical Services
- Mental Health Services
- Emotional/Behavioral Supports
- Independent Living Skills
- Family/Parent/Individual Counseling
- Youth & Family Resources
- Health & Substance Use Referrals
- 631.213.0300
- Suffolk
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- Mental Health, Substance Use & Wellness
Morning Star
Our Morning Star residences provide women in recovery, including women with young children, with a safe, home-like environment focused on helping them develop a dependence free, self-supporting lifestyle.
- Parenting Support
- Child Care
- Residential Programs
- Family/Parent/Individual Counseling
- Youth & Family Resources
- Substance Use Recovery
- 631.213.0203
- Suffolk
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- Early Childhood
Nurse-Family Partnership
Registered Nurses provide in-home visits for first time mothers from pregnancy through the child’s second birthday.
- Pregnancy Support
- Parenting Support
- 718.257.7208
- Brooklyn
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- 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
- 718.674.7700
- Brooklyn, Queens