Are you planning on making a year-end gift? Giving Tuesday is just one week away and is the perfect opportunity to show your support! Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, your Giving Tuesday donation will be MATCHED dollar for dollar up to $13,000. Make a gift on November 30, 2021 and give twice the good this holiday season!
Our Giving Tuesday donation page will be LIVE at www.pwsausa.org/GivingTuesday on November 30th. Your gift will support PWSA | USA's Family Support, Research, and Advocacy initiatives in the new year! Save the date by joining our Giving Tuesday Facebook event:
Calling all PWS Families! What are you #GivingGratitude for?
Ahead of Giving Tuesday, we encourage you to download and print our #GivingGratitude sign and share what you are grateful for. With Thanksgiving coming up, write out your gratitude message, or use one of our pre-filled signs, and snap a picture with your family over the holiday weekend!
Send in your picture to communications@pwsausa.org by 11:59 p.m. EST on Monday, November 29, 2021 to be part of our 24 hours of Gratitude Challenge! Each hour, we will share a picture that was emailed to us on our social media pages, encouraging others to support our mission throughout the day.
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Jennifer Bolander has been serving as a Special Education Specialist for PWSA (USA) since October of 2015. She is a graduate of John Carroll University and lives in Ohio with her husband Brad and daughters Kate (17), and Sophia (13) who was born with PWS.
Perry A. Zirkel has written more than 1,500 publications on various aspects of school law, with an emphasis on legal issues in special education. He writes a regular column for NAESP’s Principal magazine and NASP’s Communiqué newsletter, and he did so previously for Phi Delta Kappan and Teaching Exceptional Children.
Evan has worked with the Prader-Willi Syndrome Association (USA) since 2007 primarily as a Crisis Intervention and Family Support Counselor. Evans works with parents and schools to foster strong collaborative relationships and appropriate educational environments for students with PWS.
Dr. Amy McTighe is the PWS Program Manager and Inpatient Teacher at the Center for Prader-Willi Syndrome at the Children’s Institute of Pittsburgh. She graduated from Duquesne University receiving her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Education with a focus on elementary education, special education, and language arts.
Staci Zimmerman works for Prader-Willi Syndrome Association of Colorado as an Individualized Education Program (IEP) consultant. Staci collaborates with the PWS multi-disciplinary clinic at the Children’s Hospital in Denver supporting families and school districts around the United States with their child’s Individual Educational Plan.
Founded in 2001, SDLC is a non-profit legal services organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the legal rights of people with disabilities throughout the South. It partners with the Southern Poverty Law Center, Protection and Advocacy (P&A) programs, Legal Services Corporations (LSC) and disability organizations on major, systemic disability rights issues involving the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the federal Medicaid Act. Recently in November 2014, Jim retired.