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You Gotta Believe!, The Older Child Adoption and Permanency Movement, Inc. is an IRS determined 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation and was approved by the State of New York to have the authority to both place out and board out children since 1995.

We are a homeless prevention program that seeks to prevent homelessness by finding permanent moral and legal adoptive homes for teens and preteen children in foster care.

We offer an on-going learning experience to the general public by making available to you a 30 hour ten-week GPS II/MAPP with a specialty in Teen Permanency (that we also refer to as the Adopting Older Kids And Youth - A-OKAY) parent preparation course in ten different locations in and around New York City every week.  Please see our events page for the topic of the next class.  You may come to any class one half hour before the class begins for a mini-orientation. You are then welcomed to stay for the class and begin your ten week learning experience.  All our classes are "rolling" which means you can join the class any time you would like. We offer these orientations and classes every 1) Monday night in Yonkers; 2) Tuesday night in the Bronx; 3) Tuesday night in Suffolk County/Holtsville; 4) Wednesday night in Coney Island/Brooklyn; 5) Thursday night in Harlem; 6) Thursday night in Staten Island; 7) Saturday morning at 10am in East New York/Brooklyn; 8) Saturday afternoon at 2pm in Nassau County/Rockville Centre; 9) Saturday afternoon at 3pm in Manhattan's Greenwich Village; and 10) Sunday afternoon at 4pm in Jamaica/Queens.  All evening weekday orientations start at 6pm.    We will be adding an 11th class soon at the Long Island GLBT Community Center in Bayshore starting on March 2nd and we will also be adding a 12th class soon in far eastern Long Island in the Riverhead area. 

In addition to our "physical presence" learning we offer with our A-OKAY classes, we also offer the Brooklyn, Suffolk County, Nassau County, and Staten Island, Yonkers, Manhattan, and Bronx communities our award winning weekly cable television program entitled "The Adopting Teens & 'Tweens Show"  This show offers a variety of excellent information about the experience of bringing teens and pre-teens into your home permanently.  Please see our TV page for the current time and day of our broadcasts in Brooklyn, Suffolk County, Nassau County, Staten Island, Yonkers, Bronx, and Manhattan.  To access our TV page click here http://www.yougottabelieve.org/tv.htm.  It is also interesting to note that if you cannot get our TV programs on your television at home you can watch a live-stream of the program as it is airing either in Brooklyn (every Thursday at Noon and 8pm), Manhattan (every Thursday at 11:30am), or The Bronx (every Sunday at 10:30am.)  Please click on our TV page above to access the live stream.

Lastly, we also offer our award winning live radio broadcast every Sunday night from 8-9pm Eastern time on WGBB 1240 on a AM dial which can be heard on your radio in Nassau County, Western Suffolk County, most parts of Queens, and some parts of Brooklyn.  This radio broadcast is entitled "The Adopting Teens & 'Tweens Radio Forum."  If you cannot access the program from your radio feel free to listen to a live-stream on-line every Sunday night between 8-9pm at www.am1240wgbb.com   If you happen to miss the live radio broadcast feel free to listen to the program anyway on the radio station's website by the Tuesday after the Sunday broadcast by clicking here http://www.am1240wgbb.com/Show%20Pages/TeensAndTweens/teens.htm

 

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Pat O'Brien Chester Jackson

Adopting Older Kids And Youth is A-OKAY

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MAILING ADDRESS:

You Gotta Believe!
1728 Mermaid Avenue
Brooklyn, NY  11224
tel: (800)601-1779


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