Programs

For more than 125 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

    Adult and Family Shelters

    SCO operate homeless shelters throughout Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx that provide individuals and 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
    • Foster Care

    Bethany Program

    The Bethany Program consists of Group Residences that provide a supportive home environment for pregnant and parenting teens in foster care.

    • Educational Support
    • Employment/Job Readiness
    • Independent Living Skills
    • Housing Assistance
    • Pregnancy Support
    • Parenting Support
    • 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
    • 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
    • Early Childhood

    Corona Early Childhood Center

    The Corona UPK Center offers a year-round, full-day Pre-K program that focuses on healthy development and preparing children for success in school.

    • Early Childhood Education Centers
    • 3K for All & Pre-K
    • Foster Care

    Enhanced Family Foster Care – Brooklyn

    Enhanced Family Foster Care provides temporary homes for children throughout Brooklyn 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 – 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
    • Early Childhood

    FirstStepNYC

    FirstStepNYC provides full-day, year-round childcare and education services for children 6 weeks through 5 years of age in Brownsville, Brooklyn.

    • Early Childhood Education Centers
    • 3K for All & Pre-K
    • Child Care
    • Pregnancy Support

37%

of the participants of our Young Adult Workforce Program on Rikers Island received a high school diploma or equivalency certificate upon transitioning into the community, 28% were enrolled in an education program

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