Scleroderma Foundation Michigan Chapter

The Scleroderma Foundation Michigan Chapter, SFMC is a non-profit organization located in Southfield, MI. We are one of the 20 chapters under the National Scleroderma Foundation which is located in Danvers, MA. 

SFMC has been in existence for over 40 years working with those persons who have scleroderma, their families and caregivers to provide resources, counseling, support groups, and educational programs in Michigan. We also raise funds that support the Scleroderma Foundation's peer-to-peer reviewed research program. 

We look to the day that a cure can be found but until that day is here, SFMC will continue to provide quality services to those in need. 

Scleroderma makes life harder. Literally. To the experts, scleroderma is a chronic, autoimmune connective tissue disease. To those affected by it, scleroderma is an illness that’s sometimes hard to live with—both physically and mentally. In fact, in Latin, “scleroderma” translates directly to “hard skin,” and that’s exactly what this illness is. An overproduction of collagen causes
patients’ skin to harden. And in the most severe cases, internal organs can harden, too. 

For the over 10,00 patients across the state of Michigan, children, men and women,scleroderma ranges in severity from mild to life threatening. 1 out of 906 Americans are effected by scleroderma and although medications can slow the disease’s progression and relieve patients’ symptoms, there is no known cause or cure.