San Jose, California – December 2, 2025 — The Sleep To Live Well Foundation (STLW) is thrilled to announce its partnership with Northern California’s noted mental health and family support organization, Family Paths, which has been serving the community’s needs for over 50 years. Sleep To Live Well supports Family Paths’ mission to empower and strengthen families by offering Sleep Wellness education resources to their clinicians, program services teams, and the hundreds of parents and children they serve.

“We are pleased to announce that Family Paths is our inaugural community partner, given their exemplary 50-year+ legacy of strengthening families. We expect our Sleep Wellness resources to augment their efforts in fostering resilience, particularly among children,” said Scarlet Nickhol, STLW’s executive director and chief marketing officer. “Furthermore, we consider ourselves privileged to collaborate with Family Paths Executive Director Barbra Silver before her retirement this year, following her 27 years of service at the organization, thereby incorporating this dimension of support during her tenure.”

“Family Paths is honored to be the first community partner to help launch this important resource with the Sleep to Live Well Foundation,” said Executive Director Barbra Silver. “Over the past 50+ years, Family Paths has worked to empower and support parents and children and give them tools to heal from the impact of trauma and stress. Understanding the importance of sleep as a source of resilience and improved health is aligned with our goal of strengthening families.”

The timing of the partnership is fortuitous, as it comes just as Sleep To Live Well is releasing its guide to help parents combat the CDC-declared public health epidemic of insufficient sleep, which is adversely affecting the health of millions of children and adults in the U.S.

Embracing Sleep Wellness: A Family Guide To Transforming Sleep Resistance Into a Nurturing Ritual, authored by Dr. Roger Washington, MD, FAAFP, with Scarlet Nickhol, MPP, MBA, is an essential 64-page guide to establishing Sleep Wellness in the household. Family Paths will utilize the guide and other STLW materials in parenting programs and with the children it serves.

“The mental health clinicians at Family Paths, led by Clinical Director Rene DValery, are the perfect conduit for our Sleep Wellness Screening Protocol and Digest tools,” said STLW Founder and Medical Director Dr. Roger Washington, a family physician of 35 years. “For too long, our healthcare providers have lacked proper training and resources to assess sleep quality as an indicator of health and wellness—physically, mentally, or emotionally. With our screening kit, they have a method to quickly evaluate whether inadequate sleep contributes to the health issues they are observing in individuals and families, along with guidance to prompt Sleep Wellness practices.”

More on the Family Guide for Transforming Bedtime
Created for Sleep To Live Well by Stanford-trained physician and sleep wellness advocate Dr. Washington (aka “Doctor Bedtime”), the family guide, Embracing Sleep Wellness, provides actionable strategies for parents and caregivers to address children’s bedtime resistance, create nurturing rituals, and support lifelong healthy sleep habits. With practical advice for parents, tips for managing bedtime for different age groups, and a focus on emotional resilience, the guide is poised to become a vital resource for any household.

Key Features:

• Easy-to-follow steps for fostering Sleep Wellness at any age
• Guidance on recognizing and honoring sleep cues
• Rituals for creating a calm, secure bedtime environment
• Solutions for families with multiple children or challenging schedules
• Section for adults to “unlearn” bad sleep habits and model healthy practices

“Our goal is to break cycles of sleep deprivation and empower the next generation with tools for resilience and well-being, especially among youth experiencing stress and trauma,” says Dr. Washington.

What People Are Saying About the Family Guide
“Simple, practical advice that actually works—made bedtime way less of a struggle at our house.” – Parent of 6 and 13-year-olds.

“We needed advice on how to reframe bedtime so that sleep is not a punishment.” – Parents of three children.

About Family Paths
Based in Oakland, CA, Family Paths has been helping families thrive in Northern California communities since 1972 by providing Mental Health Therapy, Parent Education, Parenting Support Services, and Community Outreach. Through therapy, peer support, trauma-informed care, classes, education, and a 24/7 parenting helpline, Family Paths fosters emotional well-being, resilience, and self-sufficiency for children, parents, and families. They have tracked measurable change and meaningful outcomes among thousands of families they have served, including parents who are more patient with their children, increased parenting confidence, improved child behavior, and better stress management.

Website: www.familypaths.org

About Sleep To Live Well Foundation
Based in San Jose, CA, Sleep To Live Well is a health education nonprofit dedicated to advancing public health by promoting Sleep Wellness as preventive medicine, with a focus on children and families facing adversity. Part of its mission is to develop, produce, and distribute evidence-based educational materials, including this parent guide and the children’s book Doctor Bedtime’s Sleep Magic SuperPowers for Super-Sleepers, that are grounded in trauma-informed care, behavioral science, and decades of clinical expertise. Both the family guide and children’s books are available on Amazon, with all proceeds supporting its charitable book programs.

For Community Outreach, please contact
Scarlet Nickhol, MPP, MBA
Executive Director, Sleep To Live Well Foundation
Email: info@sleeptolivewell.org
Phone: 1.888.395.7794
Website: www.sleeptolivewell.org

Together, we can make Sleep Wellness a gift for every family.