You Gotta Believe

You Gotta Believe is an adoption organization focused on finding permanent families for young adults, teens, and pre-teens in foster care. Its family-finding work recruits and matches prospective parents with youth, with the aim of creating lifetime commitments. The organization offers parent training and certification through MAPP, emphasizing parenting children with histories of trauma and preventing further trauma or abandonment. It also provides support before and after adoption, continuing to assist families as long as they need it. The organization works toward permanent family connections for young people leaving foster care, including reconnections with family of origin, people already involved in their lives, or new families. It is based in New York City and describes its work as national.