
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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- 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
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- 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
- 631.639.3600
- Nassau, Suffolk
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- 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
- 718.674.7700
- Queens
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- Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities
Family Care
Specially trained families provide support and guidance to individuals with a developmental disability in a structured, stable environment.
- Residential Programs
- 631.643.8800
- Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, Suffolk
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- 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
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- 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
- 631.738.9034
- Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, Suffolk
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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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- 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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- Youth Justice
Juvenile Justice Initiative – Queens
JJI works intensively with court-involved youth and their families in their homes throughout Queens to help change delinquent behavior.
- Recidivism Reduction
- Educational Support
- Family/Parent/Individual Counseling
- 718.739.1660
- Queens