Join us on Tuesday, March 22nd, 2016 1:00PM – 2:00PM EDT
Learn about how PWSA (USA)’s services are helping families and loved ones and how YOU can help PWSA (USA) Save and Transform Lives with an eWalk or On The Move event!
Featuring:
- Evan Farrar, Crisis Intervention and Family Support Counselor
- Bonnie Shelley, Coordinator of Medical Affairs
- Lori Moline and Diane Seely, New Parent Support and Mentoring
- Donny Moore, Development and Communication Specialist
- Leanne Gilliland, Development Specialist
You’ll have the opportunity to submit questions in advance and in real time to be answered by our presenters. Along with answers to your questions, you will learn about:
- Our crisis and family services and the exciting new programs for our community
- Our medical support services
- Our new parent and mentoring program
- Our online support groups for parents, grandparents and coming soon a group just for dads
- Our medical support services and recent projects
- How you can help PWSA (USA) continue to provide these vital services
- What is eWalk and On The Move and the step to take to get started
- Setting up your eWalk page
- How we help you with every step of the way for your On The Move event
- How your money raised will help PWSA (USA) and the family and loved ones affected by PWS
Click HERE to register!
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.