Workshops on Sibling Issues and Training on the Sibshop Model
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The Sibling Support Project is now scheduling workshops for 2010. Feel free to share this announcement with families, training directors, conference planners, and coordinators of family services from appropriate agencies.
Many agencies wisely value the families they serve and are committed to providing family-centered care and services. However, even the most family-friendly agencies often overlook brothers and sisters. Brothers and sisters are too important to ignore, if only for these reasons:
- Siblings will be in the lives of family members with special needs longer than anyone. If they are provided with support and information, they can help their sibs live dignified lives from childhood to their senior years.
- Throughout their lives, brothers and sisters share many of the concerns that parents of children with special needs experience, including isolation, a need for information, guilt, concerns about the future, and caregiving demands. Brothers and sisters also face issues that are uniquely theirs including resentment, peer issues, embarrassment, and pressure to achieve.
- No classmate in an inclusive classroom will have a greater impact on the social development of a child with a disability than brothers and sisters will. They will be their sibling’s life-long typically-developing role models.
The Sibling Support Project is a national project dedicated to the concerns of brothers and sisters of people with special health, developmental and mental health concerns. We specialize in providing lively, family-friendly, and highly-rated workshops on sibling (and father and grandparent!) issues to audiences of parents, service providers, university staff and students, and siblings of all ages.
We’d welcome an opportunity to present at your agency or your next conference or training event. We’ll show you how parents and providers can decrease siblings concerns and increase their opportunities, how to create sibling friendly services, and even how to start your own Sibshop.
If you would like to learn more about our workshops, seminars, and keynotes please call or contact us by email and we¹d be happy to send you more information. Our schedule is beginning to fill up, but we still have openings.