APC is a non-profit all volunteer organization helping families looking to adopt as well as those who have adopted for over 50 years.  We provide information and support to families.  We meet once a month during the year except during December and the summer months.  However, we are always available by phone if anyone needs our support during those times.

PLEASE NOTE... If you must bring your children to the General Meeting, you are responsible to supervise them.  Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.  Thank you for your cooperation.

FUNDRAISING – As we are a non-profit organization, we do count on fundraising to help us to support our activities.  We can always use monetary donations as well as donations of items that we can raffle at our meetings.  We can make gift baskets out of small items, so new items of almost any type would be greatly appreciated.  (i.e., candles, bath and body products, gourmet food items).  Cameras, DVD players, or other electronic items as well as gift cards/certificates to restaurants and stores are great items to raffle.  If you have a connection in any of these areas, please THINK OF US. Call Dawn Hernandez at 631-666-7867.

CHILDREN’S RELIEF AND WAITING CHILDREN – There are so many children right here and all over the world who need our help.  It takes so little effort to make a big difference in a child’s life.  The next time you are at the doctor’s office, ask for some samples of medicines.  Perhaps you can buy some nice shampoo and lotions while they are on sale so that a young teen can have something other than the generic brand that the group home might provide.  How about purchasing a gift card from a fast food place the next time you stop by?  A child in care usually does not have too much extra spending money.  This gift card would ensure that he or she would be able to go to the restaurant with his or her friends and not look like the odd man out.  The unwrapped  happy meal toy that your child does not really want or need would be a wonderful thing to donate to a child in an orphanage.  The ideas are endless.  Please call Trish Polk at 516 541 4822 or Caren Peet at 631 366 3434 if you would like to help.

DUFFLE BAGS – We are always collecting NEW duffel bags for the children in the foster care system on Long Island.  These kids are often moved from one home to another or eventually moved into their forever families, but are given garbage bags to move their belongings in. This is very degrading and lowers their self esteem yet another notch.  We have been collecting duffle bags for them and supplying the surrounding counties with these bags for over five years now.  If you are interested in donating a NEW bag, please bring it to the general meeting.  Any questions, call Jean Gray at 516 795 4034 or Trish Polk at 516 541 4822.

ADOPTION AWARENESS & EDUCATION –If your school or organization is doing a community project or need projects for a certain award, APC has a few members available to come and speak to your group.  Call Trish Polk at 516-541-4822.

HELP NEEDED – Could you spare an hour once a month before our General Meeting starts to greet people and hand out flyers & agendas? If we can get a few people to volunteer, then we can rotate the months you would be needed.  We also need someone to set up and take down the PA system at our General Meetings.  Please call Caryl Deiches at 631-462-3228 for more info. We could really use your help.