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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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