Restore Funding for Tourette Syndrome Services in PA

Concerning the funding for PATSA. I can not come up with the words to express how important the existence of PATSA is to the families dealing with Tourette Syndrome. There really is no one else to turn to that understands the impact this disease can have on a family. PATSA is a major player in educating the public to accept and understand children with this condition. PLEASE CONTINUE TO FUND THIS AMAZING ORGANIZATION!!!!!

The education and support PA-TSA provided to our fmily was of invaluable help. Please continue to fund PA-TSA!

Tourette’s was brought to my attention and into my life in a big way with my son’s diagnosis. We need funding for this program to continue because every year more parents and children are faced with the damage that Tourette’s can cause.

Tourette Syndrome is a misunderstood neurological condition that needs the support and the understanding of the general population. The PA Department of Health needs to continue to fund PA-TSA

This is an amazing team of people that have helped my family and son with TS. Please don't stop funding for this group!

This organization is imperative to our children in PA with Tourette Syndrome and their families. They are an asset to our schools and to the government.

Funding for PA-TSA is critcal! It helps to provide in-service training for teachers and school personnel to support students and eliminate stigma. This education is important!

There are important and necessary services provided by PATSA for the many families and schools impacted by Tourette Syndrome.

This group supports so many people, I have been working my whole life to support more! It's a problem across the country to have the TS community be under served. PA has been doing such a good job as an example!

My son is 15 years d and has sufferred from Tourette's Syndrome since he was a toddler. Over the years, he has benefited greatly from the help of volunteers and the various materials and education that government funding provides. Please do not cut this funding. Tourette's can be a very debilitating social condition for kids and adults without the proper public education. Thank you.

PA-TSA was our ONLY source of help when my daughter needed accommodations in public school. Please do not cut funding for this very important organization.

Please restore funding. Someone I love has TS.

Please keep funding for people with Tourettes

Use the WAM $ to fund it.

As I am now nearing 40 years old, being diagnosed with Tourettes Syndrome at age 11 in 1990, have always struggled with obtaining appropriate health care and support systems due to the lack of appropriate support, education, advocacy and awareness for Tourettes Syndrome and the co-occurring/comorbid conditions that are known to be associated with it in their varying manifestation specific to the individual, the Tourettes Syndrome community (those with the diagnosis, those yet to be diagnosed for any reason, and those close to us) have endured needless suffering. Those who would abuse us, neglect us, misrepresent us, bully us for reasons we do not deserve, any help via this petition for funding, or otherwise would be of great service to us, to those around us, and those yet to understand, this includes those in local city, state, and federal political agendas and policies in conjunction with the medical community. Our lives are at the mercies of those around us, those we look to for help, support, understanding so that we may have an equal opportunity for a better quality of safety, health, and well-being and ultimately a better quality of life. We all have worth. We all have something extraordinary to share, to give of ourselves for the greater good, no matter who we are; who anyone is. Do something good for someone else. This funding may actually save a life or two, or more, be it an adult or child, no matter the age...you cannot put a price on that. This funding would be beneficial to everyone, with or with out Tourettes Syndrome and the way we all exist. Please do the right thing.

Please do not eliminate these services. I never realized how many children/adults are affected by this until the past several years when I have met such wonderful children/adults with this syndrome and how these services have helped them.

When my son's Tourette's came out full force in middle school this organization came in to help me deal with some educators that felt he could "control" it. They were a Godsend to my son and our family.

As a life long liberal, I am more than happy to support the vast majority of your proposals and actions. However, I hope you will reconsider taking funds from PA-TSA. I have seen how hard this has been on my son and his family as they raise a child with Tourette Syndrome. And they have amble resources. Please consider how the elimination of funding will affect families who have no such resources and rely on PA-TSA. Thank you.

This organization has helped myself, my sister, my family. Without these services we would have not gotten to where we are today.

Dear politicians. This organization does amazing work for children, adults, and families throughout PA. The amount of money this organization saves the state is innumerable through education, training, resources.