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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 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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