Help us honor our PWSA | USA volunteers! Do you know someone who deserves to be recognized for their service and dedication to PWSA | USA's mission and the PWS community? 2022 Volunteer Appreciation Award nominations are now being accepted through March 15, 2022. PWSA | USA will give out the following four awards: Advocacy and Awareness Volunteer Award, Research Volunteer Award, Family Support Volunteer Award, and Volunteer of the Year Award. The award recipients will be announced during the recognition dinner at PWSA | USA's upcoming Volunteer Summit (more information below). Click on the button below to download the 2022 Volunteer Appreciation Award Nomination Form.
Applications are still available if you are interested in attending PWSA | USA's 1st Annual Volunteer Summit, April 29 - May 1, 2022 at the Embassy Suites by Hilton - DFW Airport North in Dallas, Texas. Click here to download the application. Please send your completed application to volunteer@pwsausa.org. Thanks to a generous donation, all travel, lodging, and event expenses for the Volunteer Summit will be paid for by PWSA | USA. Applicants will be approved on a first-come, first-served basis. All applicants MUST be registered as active volunteers with PWSA | USA and agree to participate in all volunteer summit activities.
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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.