Archive for March 2023

Latham Centers’ latest quarterly LivingHealthy with PWS newsletter features extraordinary moments and helpful tips for everyone who cares for someone with Prader-Willi syndrome. Our most recent issue was published just before Valentine’s Day and featured holiday recommendations from Patrice Carroll, LICSW, Director of PWS Services. She challenged us to help individuals with PWS “make connections…

Pictured: Dr. Colleen Sari, with Katrina Kozak, at the FPWR Chicago Conference We invite you to join us for our third Lunch with Latham Webinar, featuring Dr. Colleen Sari. This session in our Prader-Willi Syndrome Webinar Series is entitled The Genetics of PWS Leading to Anxiety and Behavior Problems. Our Director of PWS Services, Patrice…

Wishing our Latham Social Services Team a fantastic School Social Worker Week!  Our clinicians provide an invaluable service to our students. Their dedication, creativity, and clinical expertise allow our students to thrive, heal, and become the best young adults that they can be. Thank you!   …. Stay tuned for upcoming posts honoring National Social Work Month – celebrated throughout…

In our final Rare Disease Day installment, we’re sharing not only quotes from staff about our last group of students, but also information on the origins of Rare Disease Day. The “globally coordinated movement” – spotlighted on www.rarediseaseday.org – “works towards equity in social opportunity, healthcare, and access to diagnosis and therapies for people living…

We’ve shared a little bit about our amazing students for Rare Disease Day this week. While we highlighted only one quote for each, staff continue to send uplifting remarks. “I have worked at Latham for the past eleven years and I am continuously in awe of the individuals that we serve,” noted Brittni Kliment, Vice…

Posting our Rare Disease Day  videos this week has allowed us to share all that is unique and special about our community with friends near and far. Katrina Kozak, Director of National Outreach, reflected on this collaboration: “When our team put this together, I was excited about the project because I felt that it allowed…

“On Rare Disease Day, we celebrate the extraordinary people in our lives that show us what it means to be one of a kind,” said Latham Centers’ Patrice Carroll, LICSW, Director of PWS Services. “Children and adults living with Prader-Willi syndrome face the world with such bravery and resilience and on this day, we celebrate…

In our second Rare Disease Day video, we showcase seven additional students who light up a room and impress staff and peers every day. During this exercise with staff, Chris H. responded to the prompt, “I have learned so much from each of our students and strive to be more like them. On their good…