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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 

 

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

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

 

 

 

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

WATCH ON TV/LISTEN ON RADIO
Adopting Teens & Tweens 
CLICK ABOVE  TO LEARN ABOUT
OUR 7 WEEKLY TV PROGRAMS

Or Watch on your computer every Thur at noon & 8pm (EST)

www.bcat.tv/bcat
Click on Television #2 under words "Watch BCAT Live."

Save Cable Access - Learn More - Click below
www.bcat.tv/bcat/saveaccess/saveaccess.asp

Read about our cable access show
www.bcat.tv/pdf/bcat/pg_weekly/feature_feb_15-21_2004.pdf

Listen to our Live Call-in Radio show every Sunday evening from 8-9pm on WGBB 1240 on your AM dial.  Or listen from anywhere in the world to a live stream broadcast of our radio show by logging on to the radio station's website below. 

www.am1240wgbb.com

BIG BIG NEWS!

If you missed our weekly radio broadcast you can listen at any time by clicking here:
www.am1240wgbb.com/Show%20Pages/TeensAndTweens/teens.htm

 

Break the Cycle...

 

  NEW FOSTER PARENT PERMANENCY TRAINING

Learn about the urgency to find a permanent home for your foster teen.  Maybe it can be you!  Take our 4 week training at a location near you.

MSNBC - See Pat, Chester, & Eboney
Talk About National Adoption Day - 11/16/04
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28_W1NVOsSU

NEW YORK 1's: NEW YORKER OF THE WEEK
Pat O'Brien & You Gotta Believe - 5/8/03
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01puXIDH4OY

Want To know how to Recruit Families For Older Children & Teens In Care?     Click on the great report done by NACAC
http://www.aecf.org/upload/pdffiles/familytofamily/family_every_child.pdf

Want to learn how to find families for teens? 
Read this great publication and desk reference from the
National Resource Center for Family Center Practice and Permanency Planning
at the Hunter College School of Social Worker called
Six Steps To Find A Family: A Practice Guide to Family Search and Engagement
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/nrcfcpp/downloads/SixSteps.pdf

BLOG SUPPORT: 
Check Out These Three Adoption Blogs:
www.fletcherclan.blogspot.com
http://www.bartswholenewworld.blogspot.com
www.heather-forbes.blogspot.com

ANOTHER GREAT BLOG - Brenda McCreight
Married mom of 14 - 4 are adults with families of their own.  10 still reside at home.  Dr. McCreight is also a therapist and an author.
http://theadoptioncounselor.com/Blog/

Listen to WNYC's Radio Rookie Shirley "Star" Diaz
Talk about her years in care and concerns about aging out in this fall.
http://www.wnyc.org/radiorookies/sohodoor/star.html

NBC Ch.4 News - Features YGB Staffer Craig Allen with son Teddy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYGforM9aCc
  

Listen to a dynamic radio interview w/Bryan Post interviewing Pat O'Brien
www.postinstitute.com/audio/PostInnerCircle050708e.mp3

Great article from the New York Region of the New York Times, Westchester edition,  featuring YGB Staffer Mary Keane: "Foster Mother Give Teenagers a 'Safe Place to Grow Up.'"
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/nyregion/westchester/28keanewe.html

Watch this great video from the HERE Channel - a Channel that Serves the LGBT Community - YGB staffer Mary Keane and her wonderful family.
http://www.truveo.com/Here-Family-Ep-2-clip-3/id/2510035417

Great Segment about our collaboration with the Wendy's Wonderful Kid's program on Channel 7's Viewpoint - Sunday January 25th, 2009
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=6617695

Watch this wonderful piece Columbia News Tonight did on our very own Denise Royal who they featured as New Yorker of the week. http://blog.jrn.columbia.edu/nightly/?p=642

 

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MAILING ADDRESS:

You Gotta Believe!
1728 Mermaid Avenue
Brooklyn, NY  11224
tel: (800) 601-1779        ygbpat@msn.com (e-mail)


LOCATIONS:

1728 Mermaid Ave.
(at West 19th Street)
Coney Island, NY  11224
tel.: (718)372-3003
fax: (718)372-3033

150A Long Island Avenue
Holtsville, N.Y.  11742

tel.: (631) 654-7970

fax: (631) 654-7980