Latham Centers 14th Annual Golf Classic
Please join us on Monday, October 7, 2024, at Brewster’s Ocean Edge Resort & Golf Club for the 14th Annual Latham Charity Golf Classic. The Charity Golf Classic is Latham’s largest annual fundraiser and has grown to be one of the most popular tournaments on Cape Cod.
Participants will enjoy a beautiful day of golf on Ocean Edge’s premier Nicklaus Design course, continental breakfast, box lunch, gift, banquet dinner, raffle, and auction.
Latham Centers is an international leader in the residential treatment of children and adults with intellectual disabilities, complex special needs, including Prader-Willi syndrome, and behavioral challenges. Your participation in this year’s tournament will help support Latham Centers’ vital and transformative therapeutic programs and services.
Our mission: To create opportunities for independence, self-worth, and happiness for children and adults with complex special needs.
We invite you to support Latham Centers by participating as a tournament sponsor and/or golfer. Participation is limited to the first 124 golfers who register, so sign up soon with the enclosed form or register online at t7d4.6lwboc.com.
For more information contact Erica Robinson, Latham Centers Advancement Officer and 2024 Tournament Organizer at 774-353-9302 or erobinson@6lwboc.com.
2024 Tournament Sponsors
Interested in sponsorship opportunities? Click here for more information.
Celebrating Elizabeth Roof
We are thrilled to honor Elizabeth Roof at this year’s Latham Centers Golf Classic! Elizabeth, a Senior Research Specialist at Vanderbilt University, has done incredible work in the areas of managing behavior, psychiatric features, social skills, and new promising clinical trials within the Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) community.
Elizabeth Roof, M.A. is a Senior Research Associate at Vanderbilt University Department of Psychology and has been licensed as a Health Service Provider in TN since 1994. She currently directs several research programs with children and adults with Prader-Willi syndrome with Elisabeth Dykens. They have published many peer-reviewed journal articles about many aspects of PWS across the lifespan. For almost 30 years, Elizabeth has followed over 450 children, teens, and adults with PWS in research studies. Elizabeth has recruited many families across the country and Canada by providing individualized feedback information to families on issues such as behavioral and classroom intervention, effective parenting, IEPs and educational strategies, psychiatric medication in PWS, and residential placement and professional consultation for professionals and groups. She has helped manage many clinical trials in PWS and consults with sponsors to select appropriate outcomes and logistics for clinical trials in PWS. She has presented at many state, national, and international PWS conferences and for FPWR in the US, Australia and Canada.
We can't wait to see on the course!
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