Families and patients navigating PANS and PANDAS begin each day seeking answers, understanding, and support, but these often come too slowly.
Your gift helps create a clear path forward by providing clarity, fostering connections, and offering guidance.
Your support helps shorten the time between the onset of PANS/PANDAS symptoms and the start of treatment & support.
It turns fear into clarity.
Isolation into connection.
Hopelessness into a path forward.
At the Alliance to Solve PANS & Immune-Related Encephalopathies (ASPIRE), we believe that awareness is only the beginning — action is what changes lives. And action is exactly what your donation makes possible.
Why your support matters
When you give, you help ensure that:
- You help ensure that no child, teen, or adult is dismissed, blamed, or left without answers.
- You help provide education so symptoms are recognized earlier, so families aren’t spending years searching for a diagnosis and treatment.
- You help provide educators and providers with the tools they need to understand this neuroimmune condition.
- You help build a community for patients and families through ASPIRE’s ChitChats, guidance, and resources.
Your donation doesn’t just support programs.
It supports people
One patient, one family, one future at a time.
This season, your gift carries weight.
- It fuels education.
- It pushes policy forward.
- It makes space for compassion in a field that too often turns families away.
Most of all, it helps ensure that no one feels invisible — not the parents fighting for care, not the adults still seeking treatment, and not the children whose symptoms changed their worlds overnight.
Thank you for standing with ASPIRE — today, this season, and all year long.
Your generosity is more than a donation.
It is hope, in action.
“As a teacher, I thought I understood the students in my classroom until I realized I didn’t fully understand PANS/PANDAS. ASPIRE’s in-service training changed that for our entire team. Now, the behaviors we were struggling to interpret had a medical framework. We learned how inflammation and neuroimmune issues affect learning, stamina, and behavior, and why these students need patience, flexibility, and coordinated care. Since then, we’ve supported three students with PANS more effectively, and we even identified another student who is now getting proper medical and therapeutic evaluation. For us, it truly shifted the way we think about student behavior and supports.” – K. Thomas, Educator
ASPIRE Programs
ASPIRE in Action – We empower and connect our community with tools and resources for advocacy, education, support, and awareness.
ASPIRE programs reach five core audiences to increase awareness and understanding of PANS PANDAS on a national level while providing critical support to all members of our community.
- National General Public
- Families & Patients
- Schools & Educators
- Legislators
- Providers
“When our child was first diagnosed with PANS/PANDAS, everything felt overwhelming—new terms, new fears, new decisions. ASPIRE became the one place where things finally made sense. Their website, toolkits, and webinars gave us information we could actually use each day, not medical jargon we had to decipher. And the ChitChat support groups and Facebook community… those were our lifeline. Hearing from other parents who understood this complicated journey helped us breathe again. Our child is making slow, steady progress. It’s still hard and every day can feel like a new challenge but having ASPIRE’s support has kept us grounded and hopeful.” – April & Ken
Please help close the gap between the onset of symptoms and the start of treatment while providing support through their journey. We can’t do it without your help.
Learn more from Dritan Agalliu, PhD, ASPIRE Professional Advisory Board, on why ASPIRE needs funding to provide programs that educate, create awareness, and provide support.
“Walking into my first IEP meeting, I felt completely unprepared. ASPIRE changed that. Their school resources explained the process, the language, and the expectations in a way I could actually understand. With their guidance, I learned how to articulate my child’s needs, share specific PLOP details, and collaborate on accommodations that matched my child’s strengths and challenges. I can now participate fully in the conversation, and my child’s IEP reflects a much clearer picture of what they need.” – Katie Testino
You are an integral part of the progress our community needs to improve the lives of those affected by PANS PANDAS. With your support, we can impact our community in a lasting way. Your donation will help close the gap between the onset of symptoms and the start of appropriate treatment. We can’t do it without you. Every gift helps us continue our work to empower all affected by PANS, PANDAS and immune-related encephalopathies.