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

    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
    • 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
    • Foster Care

    SCO LGBTQ+ Peer Support Group

    Who: Any SCO youth in foster care 13+ who identifies as LGBTQAI+ What: The LGBTQ+ Support Group is a peer youth group for SCO’s youth in foster care…

    • LGBTQ Support
    • Brooklyn

87%

of adults with developmental disabilities attending our Day Habilitation program participated in volunteering opportunities

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