You Gotta Believe is a New York City-based, national organization that specializes in finding permanent families for young adults, teens, and pre-teens in foster care.

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.

LGBTQ you need families and LGBTQ+ parents can form permanent, loving families too!

More than 40% of YGB parents identify as LGBTQ+ and, in our most recent parent training course, 57% of participants identified as such. Nationwide, LGBTQ+ parents are seven times more likely to adopt and foster children as compared to their straight counterparts.

An estimated 30% of young people in foster care identify as LGBTQ+, many of whom entered care due to rejection from their families because of their identity. Once in foster care, LGBTQ+ youth face higher rates of mistreatments and increased likelihood of being places in group homes.

YGB provides leadership in LGBTQ advocacy both locally and nationally. We are a founding partner of the LGBT Action Group and a key collaborator with The Center's LGBT Foster Care Project, a project to increase the number of homes for all youth, with a special emphasis on LGBTQ+ youth.

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Celebrating Pride Month

By YOU GOTTA BELIEVE THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT

Celebrating Pride Month

You Gotta Believe is committed to ALL families!

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