December 22, 2021 -- With a new year, comes new and exciting opportunities! PWSA | USA has partnered with Let’s Go Fitness, an online fitness community that celebrates diverse abilities, to provide free virtual exercise classes for individuals living with Prader-Willi syndrome. On January 7, 2022, an application will be available for those interested in participating and will be due January 21, 2022. PWSA | USA will select 20 individuals from the applications submitted to each receive a one-year membership to Let’s Go Fitness. PWSA | USA and Let’s Go Fitness will cover all costs for these 20 individuals, which includes:
- Online workouts using Zoom
- Guided workouts three times per week
- Individual workouts every day
- The opportunity to meet healthy role models and join a community
PWSA | USA will select the 20 participants based on several factors:
- Must be 14 years or older
- Agree to fill out a pre, mid-year, and post survey
- Agree to fill out a photo release form
Be on the lookout for our Let’s Go Fitness application on PWSA | USA’s website, social media sites, and in our January Pulse Newsletters beginning Friday, January 7, 2022. Please email your completed application to info@pwsausa.org. Learn more about what Let’s Go Fitness has to offer and find videos of past workout classes at https://www.letsgo.fit/how-it-works.html#/. We look forward to supporting our community through this fitness program and are grateful for the opportunity to promote wellness among our loved ones living with PWS.
About Let’s Go Fitness:
Let’s Go Fitness celebrates diverse abilities and welcomes and works with all people and all challenges. The Let's Go Fitness Program is divided into three phases which are: Fun, Friends, and Fitness. As athletes 'graduate' through each new level, they learn a number of new skills and their accomplishments are recognized and celebrated.
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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.