The ILC 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 they live with.

Through The ILC 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.

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

1. Canadian Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes continued medical education conference and Community Wellness Day (accredited by McMaster University, University of Toronto, and Northern Ontario School of Medicine); and
   
2. in partnership with McMaster University School of Rehabilitation Sciences Masters of Occupational Therapy Program, we offer 2nd and 3rd-year students co-op placements; and
   
3. Collaborative research, including funds to find cures; and
   
4. Wellness support to connect individuals to available services.
   

For more information on the conditions, we financially support, please learn more below. For Resources and Programs for these conditions, please visit our Support Services tab.