PATH's Mission
Empowering children and families
to achieve lifelong successes

Vision

• Deliver the best, culturally competent family and home-based treatment and transition opportunities to children and families, reflecting the diverse identities of client populations across PATH
• Provide highly effective leadership as an educational, advocacy and support resource, preparing parents and families to best nurture children
• Lead the child welfare field in the use of family as the core therapeutic environment
• Anticipate community needs for services to children and families by creating innovative and collaborative family-based solutions
• Be the organization of choice for foster and adoptive parents, community partners and employees

Values

Child and Family-Centered Services

• Children develop best in healthy family environments  
• Children’s families are valued as partners in treatment and care  
• Diversity is respected, embraced and celebrated
• PATH recognizes the essential role of a child’s culture in healthy development

Teamwork-Focused Environment

• We actively support foster parents, families, children and employees in caring for our clients
• We rely on and value the integrity of employees, foster parents, clients, and volunteers  
• We achieve inclusiveness through communications, teamwork and role clarity  
• We value our relationships with community partners and stakeholders
• We deliver outstanding customer service and internal partner support

Organizational Leadership

• We build excellence through continuous quality improvement  
• We act as responsible stewards of our financial, human and technology resources to build a strong foundation for the future  
• We continue our national growth to help more children and families
• Cultural competence is a core value integrated into all PATH services
• We advocate for policy and services that nurtures development of healthy children, families and communities