Forget the flowers! Do away with the dinner reservations! Skip it all and be OUR Valentine instead! This year, honor your Valentine with a special donation to PWSA | USA that will help us do more for our loved ones with PWS. Make a donation in your loved one's honor or in their memory and you'll get a "Heart of Hope" that will be displayed in our "Hall of Hearts."
By making a donation to PWSA | USA's Hearts of Hope campaign, you will have the opportunity to add a virtual paper heart to our digital "Hall of Hearts." You can donate in honor or in memory of a loved one and have their name displayed on your paper heart. Here's how it works:
- Select the amount for your donation
- Share the name of the person you wish to honor or remember
- Tell us who the Valentine is from
- Within 1-2 business days, your "Hearts of Hope" paper heart will appear in our digital "Hall of Hearts" available here.
Donations made will benefit PWSA | USA's research initiatives in 2022!
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.