Who we are. What we do.
Pathways to Promise, founded in 1988, is a multifaith and multicultural mental health support organization that addresses the need for comprehensive mental health support for any person with a mental health condition and those who surround them. Our vision is realized in communities across the nation through a continuum of program resources and a delivery model.
SINCE 1988
HEALING COMMUNITIES. CHANGING LIVES.
WHO WE ARE
A movement rooted
in relationship.
Pathways 2 Promise is a national healing movement equipping faith communities and organizations to become trusted front doors to mental wellness, connection, and care.
OUR MISSION
Pathways 2 Promise is a national healing movement equipping faith communities and organizations to become trusted front doors to mental wellness, connection, and care.
OUR VISION
A safety net of stigma-free, diverse, connected communities of care.
WHAT GUIDES US ​
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Our Core Values
These five commitments shape how we build relationships, develop programs, and partner with communities.
Compassion
People-driven mental wellness support.
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Companionship
Side-by-side human connections.
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Courage
Championing justice for everyone.
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Collaboration
Connecting faith and other partners.
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Community
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Innovating program and model delivery.
OUR HISTORY​
All beginning in 1988​
In 1988 Pathways to Promise began as collaboration of faith groups and mental health organizations to promote caring ministry with persons who have prolonged mental illness and their families. In our early years, we sponsored conferences and published well-researched and carefully detailed toolkits for congregational mental illness ministry. Our collaborative efforts have borne much fruit including...
WHAT WE DO
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​The need is enormous.
The opportunity is human.
Mental health challenges and loneliness touch every community. Professional resources cannot meet every need, so Pathways strengthens the community around the individual.
The US Population is about 340 Million.
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More than 1 in 5 live with a mental illness.
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Half will be diagnosed over their lifetime.
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Half experience loneliness daily.
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Suicides reached an all time high in 2022.
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From isolation to connection.
This is an opportunity for especially faith communities to rise-up and provide the volunteer force to meet this challenge to support people with mental health challenges and those who surround them.“
Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhuman because it often results in physical death.” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.“
Mental health is a social justice issue, a matter of saving lives that demands innovative action.” - Dr. George R. Williams
OUR APPROACH​
​Community is part of the solution
Pathways works with communities to equip them to support people with mental health challenges and those who surround them. Our programs are relational, adaptable, practical, and rooted in the strengths already present in communities.
We build networks of faith and community partners that can offer education, connection, support, referral, and pathways toward wellness.