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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 offering a ten-week Adopting Older Kids And Youth (A-OKAY) parent preparation course in nine 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 it starts for a mini-orientation and then you are welcome to stay for the class and begin your ten week learning experience.  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; and 9) Sunday afternoon at 4pm in Jamaica/Queens.  All evening weekday orientations start at 6pm. 

In addition, we offer the Brooklyn, Suffolk County, Nassau County, and Staten Island communities our award winning cable television program an 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 topics of upcoming shows and the current time and day of our shows in Brooklyn, Suffolk County, Nassau County, and Staten Island.  To access our TV page click on to our Home page and access the TV page from the Home page.

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 broad cast 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  

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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