The Canadian Scoliosis Screening Coalition
www.ScoliosisCanada.ca contact us by email: CSSC@scoliosiscanada.ca
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.
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.
We Canadians can do the same and treat our children better!