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AGAPE – Long Island2024-03-07T12:30:20-05:00

AGAPE – Long Island

Serving Nassau and Suffolk Counties 

21 Greene Avenue, Amityville | 631-598-1983

Funded by the Regional Permanency Resource Centers initiative of the New York State Office of Children and Family Services’ (OCFS), the Coalition opened the AGAPE Long Island office in the spring of 2017.

AGAPE Long Island serves families in Nassau and Suffolk counties who have adopted a child or those that have become guardians of a relative’s child.  By providing supportive services and connecting families to resources such as parent trainings, support groups for both parents and youths, peer mentoring, navigation for cross-system needs, therapeutic services referrals, counseling, or other supports to help families address issues as they arise, the AGAPE program helps post-adoptive and post-guardianship families through the unique challenges they face following an adoption or guardianship.

AGAPE’s services are provided free of charge. It is open for families who have adopted through foster care or private adoption whether domestically or internationally.  Services are also available for those caring for a child through G docket guardianship. Whether it’s a simple question, a need for more training or a more challenging problem, we are here to guide you.

If you are an family who has adopted a child or are caring for a child through a G-Docket, Article 17, informal, fictive, or KinGap Guardianship or custody, AND live in one of New York city’s five boroughs (Brooklyn, Staten Island, Manhattan, Bronx, Queens) or Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Dutchess, Nassau, Madison, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk,  Tompkins, Ulster or Westchester Counties,  please begin the AGAPE enrollment process now. Click to button to begin!

 

Take the First Step to Support – Become an AGAPE Family!

Meet the AGAPE Long Island Team

Looking for Post Adoption Support in another county?

Through funding provided by the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, every county in New York has free post adoption support services. Find the Regional Permanency Resource Center that provides services in your county here.
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Upcoming Long Island AGAPE Events

Not sure if AGAPE is right for your family? Come on out and meet the team at one of the many connective events and educational trainings we host in our AGAPE counties. All our events are free and most of the support groups and trainings have either childcare or a youth activity.

 To view and register for all the upcoming AGAPE trainings and events, just click here.

Professional Adoptees Networking

Are you an adopted adult who works or volunteers within the field of adoption and/or child welfare? It's time we reinvest in our own mental health. Let's get together to talk, laugh, vent, maybe even scream about the emotional labor that goes into being a professional in this arena.

The AGAPE Long Island office is open Monday through Friday 9am to 5pm. 

The HelpLine is always available 24 hours a day, seven days a week!

You can usually find AGAPE Long Island staff at Nassau County DSS office in Uniondale on Wednesdays from 9 AM to 12 PM.
AGAPE staff will be at the Suffolk County DSS office in Hauppauge every other Wednesday form 1:30 to 4:30 PM.


Funded by the Regional Permanency Resource Centers initiative of the

The Coalition’s Adoption and Guardianship Assistance Program for Everyone (AGAPE) in New York City and Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Dutchess, Nassau, Madison, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk, Tompkins, Ulster and Westchester Counties is funded by the Regional Permanency Resource Centers initiative of the New York State Office of Children and Family Services.
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