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
    • 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
    • Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities

    Day Habilitation Programs

    Our Day Hab program offers adults with developmental disabilities a place where they can socialize, participate in community activities, and develop skills and interests. One-to-one activities are available for those who cannot function in a group setting.

    • Developmental Disability Supports
    • 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

    Enhanced Family Foster Care – Queens

    Enhanced Family Foster Care provides temporary homes for children throughout Queens 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
    • 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
    • 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

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people with special needs develop skills to reach their full potential

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