
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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- 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
- 718.685.3850
- Brooklyn
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- Family & Community Supports
Family Support Program – Bedford Stuyvesant
SCO partners with families throughout Bed-Stuy to prevent crises and enhance family well-being. We help families strengthen relationships and develop resources to solve problems.
- Parenting Support
- Family Crisis Prevention
- Family/Parent/Individual Counseling
- Youth & Family Resources
- 917-966-4608
- Brooklyn
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- Family & Community Supports
Family Support Program – Bushwick
SCO partners with families in Bushwick to prevent crises and enhance family well-being. We help families strengthen relationships and develop resources to solve problems.
- Parenting Support
- Family Crisis Prevention
- Family/Parent/Individual Counseling
- Youth & Family Resources
- 718.312.6850
- Brooklyn
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- Family & Community Supports
Family Supports – Long Island
Programs, workshops, as well as individual and family counseling services both onsite and at home to help families through crises and help prevent crisis situations in the future. Our programs help build strong families and strong communities.
- Family Crisis Prevention
- Family/Parent/Individual Counseling
- Youth & Family Resources
- 631.639.3600
- 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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- 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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- 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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- Education
Madonna Heights School
A New York State Regents junior/senior high school for adolescent girls who live on the Madonna Heights campus or are referred by their local school district.
- Special Education/Day Schools
- 631.213.0300
- Suffolk
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- Foster Care
Residential Living for Youth in Foster Care
Group residences that provide a supportive home environment for youth in foster care who have multiple challenges including mental illness, substance abuse, alcoholism or delinquency. We also offer residential programs for young people who identify as LGBTQ as well as programs for youth with developmental disability and behavioral health conditions.
- Educational Support
- Employment/Job Readiness
- Independent Living Skills
- Housing Assistance
- LGBTQ Support
- Developmental Disability Supports
- 718.674.7700
- Brooklyn, Queens
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- Housing & Shelters
Scattered Site Supportive Housing Program
A program for young adults formerly in foster care, ages 18-25, that provides housing and case management support while young adults transition from foster care to independence
- Transitional Housing
- Housing Assistance
- 718.312.6736 or 718.312.6740
- Queens