Our Services
Welcome!
If you’ve landed here, there’s a good chance you’re holding a question, a hope, or a responsibility connected to young people in foster care. At You Gotta Believe, we work alongside older youth to help them find what every person deserves: a permanent, lifelong family and a community that doesn’t disappear when things get hard.
Our services are built around connection. Whether you are thinking about adopting, supporting a young person you work with, seeking support as someone with lived experience, or looking for ways to stand behind our mission, we’d love to hear from you. Choose the path below that best fits where you are, and we’ll take the next step together.
Best wishes,
Rachel Hood, LMSW
Senior Director of Programs
WHAT YGB DOES
You are looking to adopt? That’s amazing! If you’d like to learn more about You Gotta Believe’s mission and services, please schedule an introductory call with our team.
We’d love to hear from you. We have families who are trained and ready to adopt. Please reach out to our Director of Family and Youth Engagement to connect.
Email Christina Young-Van Osten, Director of Family and Youth Engagement
We’re here for you! We offer several different types of support including parent support groups, youth support groups, and mental health services. If you are interested, please contact our Director of Clinical Services.
Email Emily Collins, Director of Clinical Services
Thank you so much! Whether you’re interested in supporting us financially or with in-kind donations or volunteering, we’d love to hear from you. Please contact our Associate Director of Development.
Email Meghan Wood, Associate Director of Development
You Gotta Believe (YGB) exists for one reason… to work toward the day when no young person leaves foster care without the unconditional lifetime commitment of a family.
Our goal is to find youth permanent families so that they have the support system they need to live safely and to their highest potential. Whether that means helping youth reconnect to their families of origin, to other people who have played a role in their lives, or to new families that will make a new commitment to be there for life.
We believe no child should leave the foster care system without a lifelong support network in place (family).
Everyone deserves a family – and that family is a critical element to human health and prosperity.
We hope You will join us!
