
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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- 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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- Family & Community Supports
Family Treatment and Rehabilitation – Queens
Supportive services for families with a caregiver or child with substance abuse or mental health issues. Also known as intensive preventive services, FTR programs offer the same basic services offered by Family Counseling and Support Programs, but these services are modified and/or intensified to meet the family’s specific needs.
- Parenting Support
- Mental Health Services
- Family Crisis Prevention
- Family/Parent/Individual Counseling
- Youth & Family Resources
- Health & Substance Use Referrals
- 718.674.7720
- Queens
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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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- 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
Ottilie Residential Treatment Facility
The Ottilie RTF provides adolescents and young adults with the most intensive residential mental health services available outside of a hospital.
- Residential Programs
- Medical Services
- Mental Health Services
- Emotional/Behavioral Supports
- Employment/Job Readiness
- Independent Living Skills
- 718.674.8000
- Queens
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- Mental Health, Substance Use & Wellness
Planned Crisis Respite
This program provides out-of-home respite services for families coping with children who have a serious emotional disturbance
- Respite
- Emotional/Behavioral Supports
- 718.674.8487
- Queens