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PSM has lasting involvement with numerous charities as part of their good works program. Not only providing consulting to help the charities capture more monies but also getting involved in the efforts of the charities. PSM CEO Bert Cabotaje serves on the board for Autism Speaks and Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure. COO Steven Gordon is Founder and President of the SAM Foundation. If you would like further information on the charities PSM works with please contact our office.
In 2001, Dan Case was diagnosed with brain cancer. Discouraged by a lack of information and limited treatment options, Dan, together with his wife Stacey Case, his brother Steve Case, and Steve's wife Jean Case, co-founded Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure. We are a non-profit organization that partners with leading entrepreneurs, scientists and researchers to find a cure for brain cancer.
With his finance background, Dan recognized that few biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies were willing to invest research and development dollars toward brain cancer research due to its relative scarcity. By “buying down the risk” in the drug discovery process, Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure is able to speed up the drug discovery process. We apply entrepreneurial approaches to medical research and bridges the gap which often exists between academic researchers who often make significant scientific discoveries and companies which bring those treatments to patients. Since 2001, Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure has provided more than $20 million in research funding to highly qualified research investigators and physician-scientists from 42 institutions.
SAM foundation is an organization that provides extracurricular academic and athletic experiences for inner city high school students. The components of SAM present a procedural context for reality counseling that promotes self-regulation and behaviors consistent with self-control, self-efficacy, and self-determination. We support young persons through an on-going relationship serving as a positive role model and friend and building self-esteem and motivation. Our program is designed to highlight role-models, promote best practices, and help to foster a strong and dynamic community with an emphasis on sports and academics.
Successful student-athletes have developed an understanding of themselves in terms of strengths and weaknesses, which they utilize when developing strategies to meet the demands of their changing environments.
SAM imposes on student-athletes a “play-ball” approach where, in the counseling process, a total athletic involvement accompanied by academic discipline, must be followed by an assessment step to identify consequences and make subsequent value judgments regarding the efficacy of a chosen behavior. Implicit in this approach is the notion that individuals choose their behaviors and are fully accountable and responsible for their choices. More importantly, by accepting this approach the student-athlete recognizes behavior change is possible and realizes successful behavior choices are self-directed, provided responsibility is accepted. In this applied counseling context, student-athletes are led to view a current situation as a by-product of their perceptions and behaviors and to ascertain whether the situation represents their wants and their best effort to achieve those wants.
Autism Speaks was founded in February 2005 by Bob and Suzanne Wright, grandparents of a child with autism. Their longtime friend Bernie Marcus donated $25 million to help financially launch the organization. Since then, Autism Speaks has grown into the world's leading autism science and advocacy organization, dedicated to funding research into the causes, prevention, treatments and a cure for autism; increasing awareness of autism spectrum disorders; and advocating for the needs of individuals with autism and their families. We are proud of what we've been able to accomplish and look forward to continued successes in the years ahead.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and autism are both general terms for a group of complex disorders of brain development. These disorders are characterized, in varying degrees, by difficulties in social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication and repetitive behaviors. They include autistic disorder, Rett syndrome, childhood disintegrative disorder, pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) and Asperger syndrome. With the May 2013 publication of the new DSM-5 diagnostic manual, these autism subtypes will be merged into one umbrella diagnosis of ASD.
ASD can be associated with intellectual disability, difficulties in motor coordination and attention and physical health issues such as sleep and gastrointestinal disturbances. Some persons with ASD excel in visual skills, music, math and art.