We provide the support and coping skills children and young adults with emotional disorders need to live and function in their communities. We offer highly structured residential services; community based services that provide a less restrictive level of care; and in home services for children and young adults who live at home with their families. Our goal is to support each individual based on his or her needs so that each person in our care can strive to become as independent as possible.
Residential Programs
Ottilie RTF
Located in Briarwood, Queens, the Ottilie Residential Treatment Facility (RTF) serves 56 adolescents and young adults who suffer from a severe emotional disorder as well as mild mental retardation. The Ottilie RTF offers a highly structured setting that emphasizes day-to-day adaptive living skills through a variety of therapeutic and educational programs.
Residents of the Ottilie RTF attend the Theresa Paplin School, an Article 81 and 89 Residential, Non-Diploma Bound Special Education School certified by New York State. The Theresa Paplin School teaches students functional, academic and vocational skills based on each individual’s abilities. For more information, see Schools.
Madonna Heights RTF
The Madonna Heights Residential Treatment Facility (RTF) is a strength-based, trauma focused and family friendly environment for young women between the ages of 12 and 21 who need long-term mental health services under the supervision of a physician. For more information, see Madonna Heights.
Community Residences
SCO operates three Community Residences that provide a structured, supportive, home-like environment for adolescents who are ready for discharge from higher levels of care such as our RTFs and psychiatric hospitals, but are not yet ready to return home. There they learn the skills necessary to live and function as active members of the community.
Turning Point SRO/Outreach
The Turning Point Single Room Occupancy (SRO) is a dual-diagnosed, co-ed residence for the 8 young adults who are ready to make the transition from a structured RTF or hospital to community-based living but who still need support to make that transition successful. This program is complimented by The Outreach Service Center which provides employment and entitlement assistance as well as other supportive services for the 8 SRO residents as well as other dual-diagnosed young adults living in the community.
In-Home Services
Children’s Blended Case Management
This program provides intensive case management and supportive case management services for 44 children/adolescents and their families in Brooklyn. The goal of this program is to keep them with their families and avoid having them placed in residential programs.
Children’s Waiver Services
SCO assists families who wish to keep their children at home by offering a broad spectrum of services in the home. Without these services, children would most likely need to be placed in an Inpatient Hospital Setting or a Residential Treatment Facility.
Family-Based Treatment
This program places children with severe emotional disorders in the homes of specially trained foster families. The emphasis is on treating the young person in a loving, secure family environment while receiving services in the community.
Bronx Community Respite
Serving Bronx children, this program provides timely out-of-home respite services for families coping with children who have a severe emotional disorder. The child is temporarily placed with a Respite Family so the child’s family can take advantage of some time needed to attend to other issues.
Bridges to Health
Bridges to Health provides enhanced services to foster children with serious emotional disabilities, developmental disabilities, and/or children who are medically fragile allowing them to remain in a home setting. It also provides services to both the foster and birth families to help them give the best care possible. Once enrolled, children are eligible for these services until they reach 21.
Foster Care Mental Health Services
Children in SCO’s Foster Care program are provided with social services and medical care at on-site medical clinics that also include mental health and counseling services.