For More Information:

Palo Alto

Parents Place Koret Family Resource Center, 200 Channing Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301; 650-688-3040

Director: Karen Friedland-Brown, MA; KarenFB@jfcs.org

Parents Place Community Education Coordinator, Holly Pedersen, PhD; HollyP@jfcs.org

Office Manager: Sandra Stein; SandraSt@jfcs.org.

San Mateo

Parents Place Eleanor Haas Koshland Center, 2001 Winward Way, Suite 200, San Mateo, CA 94404; 650-931-1840

Parent Education Coordinator: Stephanie Barry Agnew, BA; StephanieA@jfcs.org

Office Manager: Joseph Gutierrez JosephG@jfcs.org

Welcome to Parents Place on the Peninsula

We have two offices on the Peninsula: in San Mateo and Palo Alto. Explore our offerings here and come visit Parents Place at our locations soon. We also offer parenting services to go—at your office, community center, preschool, etc.—through our Parents Place Community Education Program (see In the Community).

Our staff and services make us the Bay Area's leading family resource center, providing a place for parents to get education and counsel about parenting and a place for children of all ages to find peer support, social networks, and guidance on their developmental journey.

In addition to a wide variety of parent-child play groups and expert consultation on parenting issues, we offer each month many dynamic workshops and presentations on timely topics, including praising children, overscheduling children, and positive discipline.

Striving for innovative, cutting-edge, and evidence-based services, we have taken the lead in developing highly effective programs that make a positive difference for many in the community. Among these programs are our bullying prevention workshops, based on the Steps to Respect model, that are geared for educators and parents, as well as our Family Ambassador Program, which trains resource specialists to work with low-income families with young children.