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

    • 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

    Children and Family Treatment and Support Services (CFTSS)

    Integrated community supports that help children (under 21) and their families with emotional and behavioral health needs improve their health, well-being, and quality of life.

    • Mental Health Services
    • Emotional/Behavioral Supports
    • Family/Parent/Individual Counseling
    • Health & Substance Use Referrals
    • 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
    • Mental Health, Substance Use & Wellness

    Madonna Heights Group Residence

    A group residence offering an environment that teaches, strengthens, and encourages young women to heal from trauma.

    • Residential Programs
    • Mental Health Services
    • Emotional/Behavioral Supports
    • Independent Living Skills
    • Family/Parent/Individual Counseling
    • Youth & Family Resources
    • Health & Substance Use Referrals
    • Suffolk
    • Mental Health, Substance Use & Wellness

    Madonna Heights Residential Treatment Facility

    The Madonna Heights RTF provides adolescent girls and young women with the most intensive residential mental health services available outside of a hospital.

    • Residential Programs
    • Medical Services
    • Mental Health Services
    • Emotional/Behavioral Supports
    • Independent Living Skills
    • Family/Parent/Individual Counseling
    • Youth & Family Resources
    • Health & Substance Use Referrals
    • 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
    • Education
    • Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities

    The Christopher School

    A New York State certified special education school that provides a therapeutic and residential setting for children with developmental disabilities

    • Residential Programs
    • Special Education/Day Schools
    • Education

    Theresa Paplin School

    A New York State certified special education school that serves adolescents and young adults who live at our Ottilie Residential Treatment Facility or are referred by their school districts.

    • Special Education/Day Schools
    • Education

    Tyree Learning Center

    A New York State certified special education school for the children and adolescents with developmental disabilities who reside at The Robert J. McMahon Children’s Center.

    • Special Education/Day Schools

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11,200

children and teens through academic, after-school, summer and work readiness programs

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