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

    • Housing & Shelters

    Brooklyn Youth Center

    Provides homeless and at-risk youth and their families with information and access to a variety of services and helps them find temporary housing.

    • Housing Assistance
    • Family Crisis Prevention
    • Youth & Family Resources
    • Food Insecurity
    • Health & Substance Use Referrals
    • Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities

    Family Care for Adults with Developmental Disabilities

    Specially trained families provide support and guidance to individuals with a developmental disability in a structured, stable environment.

    • Residential Programs
    • 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 Support Program – Bedford Stuyvesant

    SCO partners with families throughout Bed-Stuy to prevent crises and enhance family well-being. We help families strengthen relationships and develop resources to solve problems.

    • Parenting Support
    • Family Crisis Prevention
    • Family/Parent/Individual Counseling
    • Youth & Family Resources
    • Family & Community Supports

    Family Support Program – Bushwick

    SCO partners with families in Bushwick to prevent crises and enhance family well-being. We help families strengthen relationships and develop resources to solve problems.

    • Parenting Support
    • Family Crisis Prevention
    • Family/Parent/Individual Counseling
    • Youth & Family Resources
    • 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
    • Family & Community Supports

    Trauma Systems Therapy (TST)

    Trauma Systems Therapy is an intensive, evidence-based treatment model working with children ages 5-17 (5-18 in foster care) with severe trauma histories that impact their ability to regulate their emotions…

    • Parenting Support
    • Mental Health Services
    • Emotional/Behavioral Supports
    • Family Crisis Prevention
    • Family/Parent/Individual Counseling

We shelter

2,000

youth, adults and children experiencing homelessness

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