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NINE ORIENTATIONS
EVERY WEEK:

Sunday at 4pm in Jamaica Queens
Monday at 6pm in Yonkers, Westchester
Tuesday at 6pm in Bronx

Tues. at 6pm in Holtsville, Suffolk County
Wednes. at 6pm in Coney Island, Bklyn
Thursday at 6pm in Harlem, Manhattan
Thursday at 6pm on Staten Island
Saturday at 10am in East NY, Brooklyn
Sat. at 2pm in Rockville Center, Nassau
                                     
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.

 

 

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:
2008

You Gotta Believe's New York City Monthly Support Group usually meets on the last Friday of every month (except Aug 22, Nov. 21, Dec 19th) at St. Vincent's Services located at 66 Boerum Place, in Downtown Bklyn at 7pm. 

You Gotta Believe's Long Island Monthly Support Group usually meets on the first Monday of every month {except July 14} in our Holtsville office at 7pm.
 

A Brilliant Hilarious Tribute to Motherhood -
 By Anita Renfroe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anSpBUxsgAU

After watching above watch interview below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHJN2PGm1Yo

 

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 Excellent Cayahoga County Teen Recruitment
Video w/ YGB Dear Friend Cedric Riley
http://cfs.cuyahogacounty.us/media.asp.

Watch How a Youth Coming To Teach Waiting Families & Families-in-training Can Lead to a Placement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjr_aodzY_g

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BIG NEWS! - YGB Receives Adoption Excellence Award
From The Fed's HHS Children's Bureau  -
 YGB won in Category #10: Media/Public Awareness
for our Adopting Teens & 'Tweens TV & Radio Shows
 Learn more about all 2007 Winners by clicking below
 
www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/current_initiatives/aeawards07.htm

Workshop Description

Workshop Overheads

Teen Homeless Prevention - Children's Bureau - Final Report

Permanent Parents for Teens - Children's Bureau - 2nd Year

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 Two Adoption Blogs:
www.fletcherclan.blogspot.com
http://www.bartswholenewworld.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

Read a great El Diario (written in Spanish) article about YGB staffer & Family Mary Chancie who has adopted three young men   http://www.eldiariony.com/noticias/detail.aspx?section=17&id=1608330&desc=  

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

 

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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