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

    • Foster Care

    Bethany Program

    The Bethany Program is a Group Residence that provides 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Early Childhood

    Early Head Start

    High-quality childcare and parenting support to pregnant women and families with infants and toddlers.

    • Pregnancy Support
    • Parenting Support
    • Child Care
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Housing & Shelters

    Family Shelters

    SCO operate homeless shelters in Brooklyn and the Bronx that provide 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

82%

of residents in our group homes for adults with developmental disabilities attended Day Habilitation and receive vocational services

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