The Canadian Scoliosis Screening Coalition
The Canadian Scoliosis Screening Coalition Advocacy Campaign:
A Private Bill for to proclaim June as Scoliosis month
for Provincial Legislators
Added May 11, 2025.
GET INVOLVED! VOLUNTEER AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE! .
Canadian parents and patients can be
proactive by
to inform them of the issues you or your child are facing and demand your province establish school screening and better resources for children with Scoliosis, direct them to our website.
Join forces with the Canadian Scoliosis Screening Coalition's initiative to establish Scoliosis School
Screening in your province and advocate for better resources and improved care for Scoliosis patients
by proclaiming June as Scoliosis Awareness month and June 1st as Scoliosis Awareness Day.
This involves contacting your MPP or MLA or Provincial Minister of Health to get them to sponsor a private Bill.
Please contact the Canadian Scoliosis Screening Coalition for more information by
emailing us at: CSSC@scoliosiscanada.ca.
Republican Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida in February of 2024 signed such a senate bill (see
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/360 ) to promote and provide state support for early
detection/screening programs of Scoliosis in public schools and declare June as Scoliosis Awareness
month. If a Republican governor can support such a bill, our Canadian politicans can too. Disease does not discriminate. Any child can get Scoliosis.
Every provincial government should aspire to pass a private BILL to proclaim June as Scoliosis
Awareness month, to promote early detection and screening in schools, increase awareness and
education of AIS, and promote research and reinstate support and funding for spine care. And advocate
for full funding of braces and Schroth PSSE. This is sound preventative health care for children.
The highly respected Scoliosis Research Society SRS has been promoting this campaign throughout the US and
Internationally for some years now and provides a lot of helpful tools on their website as does the
highly respected National Scoliosis Foundation. Note, this legislative process can take up to a year as
the bill passes through several readings. Please start the advocacy process now. Please
visit
Scoliosis Awareness Month, the
Scoliosis Research Society and
the National Scoliosis Foundation (US non-profit patient led organization established in 1976, provides assistance to US States to setup school screening programs). Refer to
Links to Screening Publications to see US State Scoliosis School Screening Publications.
Below are two US Senate Bills that can be used as templates for Canadian provincials MPPs and
MLAs.
PATIENT & PARENT ADVOCACY WORKS! This Bill process has had great success in the US to initiate the establishment of Scoliosis school screening in many US States.
Be part of the solution. Email the Federal Health Minister
We Canadians can do the same and treat our children better!