What We Fund

EDS Canada Foundation’s approach has and continues to impact change by helping individuals to feel understood and cared for in their community, and to feel less isolated in the condition(s) they live with.

Through EDS Canada’s awareness and education programs, systemic barriers to care are being identified with ongoing discussions with multiple stakeholders to break down those barriers. Stakeholders include community care access organizations, schools, departments of continued medical education, and, ministries of health.

EDS Canada organizes and funds the following programs in support of its strategy to raise awareness about hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes/Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders affecting 1 in 300 Canadians and the 1 in 5 living with chronic pain, and children are not spared:

• The Canadian Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes annual continued medical education conference and Community Wellness Day (accredited by McMaster University, University of Toronto, and Northern Ontario School of Medicine); and
• In partnership with healthcare academia, we offer student co-op placements so we appear open to and involved in other academic centres / provincial placements; and
• Research to find cures through student grants and knowledge dissemination partnerships; and
• Wellness support to connect individuals to available services.

For more information on the conditions- we financially support, please read below. For Programs we offer for these conditions, please visit our Support Services tab.