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Eleven ORIENTATIONS
EVERY WEEK:
Sunday at 4pm in Jamaica Queens
Monday at 6pm in Yonkers, Westchester
Monday at 6pm in Bayshore, Long Island
Tuesday at 6pm in Bronx
Wednes. at 6pm in Coney Island, Bklyn
Thursday at 6pm in Middle Island, L.I.
Thursday at 6pm in Harlem, Manhattan
Thursday at 6pm on Staten Island
Saturday at 10am in East NY, Brooklyn
Saturday at 2pm in Hempstead, L.I.
Saturday at 3pm in Greenwich Village
BIG BIG
NEWS
Our 11th Class Started on Monday March 2 at the Long Island GLBT
Community Center. Click here to sign up.
http://www.liglbtcenter.org/content.php?pgID=426
Call for location & direction to all classes at 718-372-3003, or find
directions to all locations by clicking on "Directions to Us" - above
right.
The only time above orientations are not offered is on
holidays and holiday weekends.
Listen To A YGB Orientation Radio Broadcast
below:
http://am1240wgbb.hipcast.com/deluge/2f34ee7a-08fd-bd9a-75a6-30d82ee3c984.mp3 |
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MEET OUR WAITING CHILDREN.
Log on to either New York City's or New York
State's website to get a flavor of the children who need permanent
homes by clicking below:
www.nyc.gov/adopt
Click on "Meet Our
Kids"
Click on "Search Our Database."
www.ocfs.state.ny.us/adopt
Log on to the Wendy's Wonderful Kids website, a signature program
of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption, to learn more about
this unique nationwide recruitment strategy to find homes for
America's and Canada's longest waiting children. YGB
is a partner.
www.WendysWonderfulKids.org
Watch video clips of children featured on Wednesday's Child this
week and previous weeks as well:
www.wnbc.com/wednesdayschild/index.html
SUPPORT GROUP:
All 5 Boros +:
BROOKLYN: Last Friday of Every
Month from 7-9pm, Holy Redeemer Church in East New York,
MANHATTAN:
Third Tuesday of the Month from 7-9pm,
University Settlement, 273 Bowery.
QUEENS:
Third Monday of the Month from 7-9pm at
the Jamaica YMCA, 89-25 Parsons Blvd.
STATEN ISLAND:
First Wednesday of the Month, 7-9pm, Bubbles
Playhouse, 2102 Clove Road.
BRONX: Second
Thursday of the Month, 7-9pm, at Abbott House, 3010 Jerome Avenue,
Bronx.
LONG ISLAND: First Monday of the
Month, 7-9pm, YGB office at 150A L.I. Ave, Holtsville, NY.
Families looking for a great way to
deal with children with severe behaviors we recommend
BEYOND CONSEQUENCES, LOGIC, AND CONTROL by Bryan Post, Ph.D. &
Heather T. Forbes, LCSW To read an article by Ms.
Forbes about the book's central premise click here:
www.beyondconsequences.com/freearticle.pdf
You can order the book Beyond Consequences, Logic, and
Control book:
http://www.postinstitute.com/books/133-beyond-consequences-logic-and-control.html |
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Three Part Series on Youtube Entitled:
Breaking Barriers to Teen Adoption
Part 1 -
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FAxMWRqqwxI
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7ML2Z2kbyU
Part 3 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_iTNXX8WLQ
Watch this Great Two Part Series "WE INTERRUPT"
Listen to what Minnesota Youth have to say about being recruited
for. This fabulous production was made possible by Minnesota
Department of Human Services (DHS)
Part 1 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StY__eircls
Part 2 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvG0-JvmR-I
Watch A Wonderful Cleveland Teen Recruitment
Video
w/ YGB Dear Friend Cedric Riley
http://cfs.cuyahogacounty.us/media.asp.
How a Youth Coming To Teach Waiting Families Lead to
her Placement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjr_aodzY_g
Don't ever forget why we do what we do.
We need Families to adopt teens in order to prevent their
homelessness upon discharge from the foster care system. Read
this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/nyregion/08foster.html?emc=eta1 |
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XTREME ADOPTION: ADOPTING
YOUTH OVER 18
Listen to one of the most unique NACAC workshops ever:
Its Never Too Late: Adopting Teens Who Are Already 18 When They Move In.
This
workshop features four single moms, Mary Keane, Mary Chancie, Lynn Zelvin, and
Loretta Tayar, and three youth, Jonathan Cruz, Nefertiti Holmes, Richard
Wilkerson (all whom were 20 when they moved in) speak about the importance
of having family no matter what age one is.
This two CD set can be purchased for $17 by clicking here:
www.adoptioncds.com/product_info.php?cPath=40_73&products_id=728
UNCONDITIONAL COMMITMENT ...
THE ONLY LOVE THAT MATTERS
... TO TEENS --- THE VIDEO - $30
Please order this informative and exciting video of 13 adoptive parents
who adopted teens and pre-teens, as well as 9 young adults who were all
adopted as teens, speak to the powerful role that unconditional
commitment played in each and every one of their placements.
Please make check out to You Gotta Believe and mail to 1728
Mermaid Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11224, and give us the address where you
would like for us to mail the DVD to you.
Workshop Description
Workshop Overheads
Teen Homeless
Prevention Project - Final Report - April 2006
Permanent Parents
for Teens Project - Final Report - Jan 2009
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