Media Kit

Welcome to Family Paths’ online resource for the press and media. Here you will find quick facts, accolades we’ve received, powerful promotional videos, as well as logos and past articles. If you need further assistance, please contact Angela Dant, Executive Assistant, at adant@familypaths.org or 510-380-1722.

QUICK FACTS

Family Paths was founded in April of 1972 as a volunteer-run hotline for stressed parents under the name Parental Stress Service. Since 1985, we have been headquartered in Oakland, CA at the Grove Building at Martin Luther King, Jr. Way and 18th Street and in 2001 purchased the building as our permanent home. In 2005 the organization was re-named Family Paths, retiring the former Parental Stress Service in name only. Today, Family Paths’ 24-hour Parenting Stress Helpline continues and the agency thrives as a leader in community mental health, child abuse prevention and treatment, and family support services like parent education. Annually, our Parenting Stress Helpline fields over 4,000 calls, and currently has approximately 900 referral sources in our database to help support parents and families in Alameda County. In 2020, Family Paths became the lead agency of the Strong Families Alliance of Alameda County, an initiative of the Alameda County Social Services Agency and the Child Abuse Prevention Council of Alameda County to form a coalition of a dozen agencies and connect residents of Alameda County, and the greater Bay Area, to community resources, providers, and supports local to them..

Find our Founding Story HERE

Overview of the services we provide HERE

LOGOS

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Family Paths’ Finding Peace Within group is the recipient of the Alameda County Mental Health Advisory Board’s 2018 Community Service Award in the Promising Innovative Program category. Longtime clinicians, Amy Attiyeh, MFT, and Phyllis Lorenz, MFT, co-founders and facilitators of Finding Peace Within, have led this group for over a decade and served more than 200 women who are committed to getting the skills they need to heal and thrive. Read more about our Finding Peace Within group HERE.

First 5 Alameda County recognized our leadership in the realm of Parent Education and fatherhood services by awarding Family Paths with the Jeff Gillenkirk Fatherhood Communications and Advocacy Award in 2023. Read more about our Parent Education program and our PE instructors HERE.