About
COAC is a non-profit organization committed to serving our community by working with individuals living with HIV, as well as strengthening post-adoption, post-guardianship, and kinship families.
A word from our executive director
As an adoptive mother of two beautiful children, Joseph and Nicole, I know how lonely you can feel when you are struggling with parenting an adoptive child. Every adoptive family needs the continued support of a strong post adoption team. We all need resources and guidance through our journey to help us with the daily challenges in our lives. With better understanding and communication comes a stronger family unit. A strong and stable family unit brings joy and happiness into your lives. Remember, adoptive parents are special and unique individuals. In order to be a successful parent you need to take care of yourself first so that you can be a better parent to your child.
This is what adoption means to me:
Adventure of a lifetime
Dedication
Opportunity to form a family
Problem solving
Treasure
Inspiration
Over the top!
Never ending love
- Joann Buttaro, Executive Director
Who we are
OUR MISSION
COAC is a non-profit organization committed to serving our community by working with individuals living with HIV, as well as strengthening post-adoption, post-guardianship, and kinship families.
COAC's mission is to proactively identify, develop, recruit, stabilize, and strengthen family systems to provide permanent, loving, and nurturing homes to children.
OUR VISION
COAC's vision is to ensure that every child has a permanent, loving, and nurturing home and family.
OUR SERVICES
Post-Adoption / Post-Guardianship
Kinship Families
HIV/AIDS Support
Legal Services
Benefits Counseling
Project Support
COAC serves adoptive families who have adopted a child through foster care, domestically, and internationally. We also provide supportive services to kinship caregiving families.
COAC provides supportive services to families living with HIV/AIDS. We develop permanency plans to ensure that children will not have to enter the foster care system if parents are no longer able to care for the children.
Our Services Are Free & Confidential
For more information about our services, please complete our Contact Form.
COAC's information is kept confidential. These are stock photos and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Please note that we are not an adoption agency and do not have children awaiting placement.
The New York Council on Adoptable Children (COAC) welcomes all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, national origin, and marital, veteran, financial or citizenship status.
CONNECT WITH US
General Inquiries
212-475-0222
Main Line
Family Permanency Center [English]
646-483-5901
Melissa Holiday, Program Director
El Centro Para La Estabilidad de la Familia [Español]
646-599-1759
Maria Bustos, Family Care Coordinator
HIV Support, Welcoming New York Program
[English/Español]
646-477-0390
Denise Barrera, Program Director
MAIN OFFICE
COAC
242 West 38th St, 9th Floor
New York NY 10018
212-475-0222
SATELLITE OFFICE
Calvary Residence | Kinship & Post Adoption
162-15 112th Rd
Jamaica NY 11433
917-880-4351
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