
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 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
- 631.643.8800
- Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, Suffolk
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- Early Childhood
Family Child Care Networks – Queens
In-home child care providers in East Elmhurst, Corona, Jackson Heights, Flushing, Rego Park, and Forest Hills offer families with infants, toddlers and preschoolers a full day, year-round program that fosters healthy development and learning.
- Child Care
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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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- Early Childhood
Jerome Hardeman Early Childhood Center
SCO’s Early Childhood Center fosters children’s cognitive, physical, social and emotional development, giving all children the tools they need to succeed in school and meet their full potential.
- Early Childhood Education Centers
- 3K for All & Pre-K
- Child Care
- 718.779.1660
- 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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- Early Childhood
Long Island City Early Childhood Center
SCO’s Early Childhood Center fosters children’s cognitive, physical, social and emotional development, giving all children the tools they need to succeed in school and meet their full potential.
- Early Childhood Education Centers
- 3K for All & Pre-K
- Child Care
- 718.487.7070
- 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