We offer our 10-week parenting experience in multiple locations throughout New York City and in Long Island.

Once you register and attend our initial Orientation – Class #1, you may continue your remaining 9 classes at the location that is most convenient for you.

The initial orientation class is an overview of the realities of the foster care system and an up-close look at the focus and unique values of You Gotta Believe.

Please call our office at 718-372-3003 Monday through Friday to speak with someone about your interest and to register for your orientation session.You may also inquire via email at info@yougottabelieve.org or register online here.

We offer classes at multiple locations throughout the New York Metro Area each week, on an ongoing basis. Classes cover the gamut from the psychosocial needs of children in care to the documentation required for certification. Through the classes you gain a sense of the immediate and long-term effects on youth of being removed from their families and being placed with strangers, issues surrounding children that are institutionalized and its potential impact on the family. The ten classes are key to making the most important decision about whether you are best suited to become foster (temporary) or adoptive (permanent) parents to a child in foster care.

We aim to offer the most experiential process as possible.

Class Contact:
Paul Snellgrove (646) 691-7985 Nichelle Thomas (929) 287-0192

Once you have attended a Orientation/Meeting #1 at any of our locations, you may continue the remaining classes in any order at the location of your choice. Please call our central office at 718-372-3003 to schedule your orientation class. 

Meeting #	Date of Class	Topic
Meeting #1	October 5th, 2016	Orientation Welcome to the GPSII/MAPP Program for teens in Foster Care
Meeting #2	October 12th, 2016	Where the MAPP Leads: A Foster Care and Adoption Experience for Teens
Meeting #3	October 19th, 2016	Losses & Gains The Need to Be a Loss Expert for Teens in foster care
Meeting #4	October 26th, 2016	Helping Children with Attachment
Meeting #5	November 2nd, 2016	Helping Teens Learn To Manage Their Behavior
Meeting #6	November 9th, 2016	Helping Children With Birth Family Connections: YOUTH PANEL
Meeting #7	November 16th, 2016	Gains and Losses: Helping Children Leave Foster Care  Support After Placement
		NOTE – NO CLASS ON WEDNESDAY, NOV. 23RD DUE TO THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
Meeting #8	November 30th, 2016	Understanding the Impact of Foster or Adopting PARENT PANEL
Meeting #9	December 7th, 2016	Perspectives in Foster/Adoptive Parenting Adapting & Adopting
Meeting #10	December 14th, 2016	Beginnings & Endings: Unconditional Commitment: The Only Love That Matters