Sibling and Workshops on Sibling Concerns

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Sibling groups and Workshops on Sibling Concerns

Hi—

I am the director of the Sibling Support Project, the United States’ sole national effort dedicated to the interests of over six million brothers and sisters of people with special health, mental health, and developmental needs.

Like you, I maintain lists on groups under the “Special Needs Family” category. Our lists focus on the concerns of brothers and sisters. Our lists include SibKids (for young sibs), SibNet (for adult sibs), and SibGroup (for those running Sibshops and similar peer support efforts for young brothers and sisters).

I am hoping you will be kind enough to share the following two-part announcement with the members of your list. The first part is about the groups we sponsor and the second is about the workshops we conduct on sibling issues and training we provide on the Sibshop model. (I’ll leave it up to you if you want to send this out as one email or break it up into two.) Should you need suggestions for subject lines, the first could be: “Announcing the SibKids and SibNet Listservs” and the second could be “Workshops on Sibling Issues and Training on the Sibshop Model.”

Thank you, in advance, for considering this! If I can provide you with any further information about these announcements or the work of our project, please let me know.

Sincerely,

Don Meyer

Director, Sibling Support Project

6512 23rd Ave NW, #213

Seattle, WA 98117

donmeyer@...

www.siblingsupport.org

Online Training Calendar at www.calsnet.net/sibshop

_________________________________

Announcing the SibKids and SibNet Listservs (please share this with families and service providers in the disability, health, and mental health communities!)

The Sibling Support Project of the Arc of the United States is pleased to announce SibNet and SibKids. SibNet and SibKids are the Internet's only listservs for and about brothers and sisters of people with special health, developmental, and emotional needs.

Both SibKids (for younger brothers and sisters) and SibNet (for older siblings) allow brothers and sisters an opportunity to connect with their peers from around the world. Both listservs have members from the US, Canada, Australia, England, Japan and elsewhere. SibNet (started in 1996) and SibKids (started in 1997) are remarkably warm, thoughtful, and informative communities where young and adult brothers and sisters share information and discuss issues of common interest.

Anyone who has email can subscribe to SibKids and SibNet. For a no-cost subscription and to learn more about SibKids and SibNet, please visit the Sibling Support Project's Web Page (see address below). Finally, if you have further questions about SibKids, SibNet, our Sibshops, or the work of the Sibling Support Project, please contact:

Don Meyer, Director

Sibling Support Project

6512 23rd Ave NW

#213

Seattle, WA 98117

donmeyer@...

www.siblingsupport.org

_________________________________________

Workshops on Sibling Issues and Training on the Sibshop Model

The Sibling Support Project is pleased to announce that we are now scheduling workshops for 2007. Please share this announcement with families you know and 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 for only these reasons:

Siblings will be in the lives of family members with special needs longer than anyone. Brothers and sisters will be there after parents are gone and special education services are a distant memory. 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 siblings’ life-long “typically-developing role models.”

The Sibling Support Project is the United States’ only 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’ve conducted workshops on sibling issues in all 50 states, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Guatemala, New Zealand, and England and have helped establish over 200 replications of our award-winning Sibshop program in eight countries. Our books for families include Sibshops, Views from Our Shoes, Living with a Brother or Sister with Special Needs, and Uncommon Fathers and our new book for teen sibs, The Sibling Slam Book. And our work and publications have been featured in newspapers (Washington Post, New York Times), magazines (Exceptional Parent, Sesame Street Parent, Reader’s Digest), professional publications (JASH, Journal of Pediatric Psychology, The American Academy of Pediatrics News), and television (ABC News’ 20/20, Nightline and World News Tonight and Brazelton on Parenting) across the United States.

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.

Addressing siblings’ concerns benefits everyone: brothers, sisters, parents, agencies, taxpayers and especially the family member who has special needs. In many important ways, brothers and sisters ARE the future--and are too important to ignore.

If you would like to learn more about our workshops, seminars, and keynotes please call or contact us by email and we’d be happy to send you more information. Our schedule is beginning to fill up, but we still have openings.

Don MeyerDirector, Sibling Support ProjectA Kindering Center program6512 23rd Ave NW, #213Seattle, WA 98117 ; fax donmeyer@...Sibling Support Project website: www.siblingsupport.orgSibling Support Project online training calendar: http://plus.calendars.net/sibshop Our brothers, Our sisters, Ourselves

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> Subject: Sibling groups and Workshops on Sibling Concerns

>

>

> Hi—

>

> I am the director of the Sibling Support Project, the United States’ sole

> national effort dedicated to the interests of over six million brothers and

> sisters of people with special health, mental health, and developmental needs.

>

> Like you, I maintain lists on groups under the “Special Needs Family”

> category. Our lists focus on the concerns of brothers and sisters. Our lists

> include SibKids (for young sibs), SibNet (for adult sibs), and SibGroup (for

> those running Sibshops and similar peer support efforts for young brothers and

> sisters).

>

> I am hoping you will be kind enough to share the following two-part

announcement

> with the members of your list. The first part is about the groups we

> sponsor and the second is about the workshops we conduct on sibling issues and

> training we provide on the Sibshop model. (I’ll leave it up to you if you

want

> to send this out as one email or break it up into two.) Should you need

> suggestions for subject lines, the first could be: “Announcing the SibKids and

> SibNet Listservs” and the second could be “Workshops on Sibling Issues and

> Training on the Sibshop Model.”

>

> Thank you, in advance, for considering this! If I can provide you with any

> further information about these announcements or the work of our project,

please

> let me know.

>

> Sincerely,

>

> Don Meyer

> Director, Sibling Support Project

> 6512 23rd Ave NW, #213

> Seattle, WA 98117

> 206-297-6368

> donmeyer@...

> www.siblingsupport.org

> Online Training Calendar at www.calsnet.net/sibshop

>

> _________________________________

>

> Announcing the SibKids and SibNet Listservs (please share this with families

and

> service providers in the disability, health, and mental health communities!)

>

> The Sibling Support Project of the Arc of the United States is pleased to

> announce SibNet and SibKids. SibNet and SibKids are the Internet's only

> listservs for and about brothers and sisters of people with special health,

> developmental, and emotional needs.

>

> Both SibKids (for younger brothers and sisters) and SibNet (for older

siblings)

> allow brothers and sisters an opportunity to connect with their peers from

> around the world. Both listservs have members from theUS, Canada, Australia,

> England, Japan and elsewhere. SibNet (started in 1996) and SibKids (started

in

> 1997) are remarkably warm, thoughtful, and informative communities where young

> and adult brothers and sisters share information and discuss issues of common

> interest.

>

> Anyone who has email can subscribe to SibKids and SibNet. For a no-cost

> subscription and to learn more about SibKids and SibNet, please visit the

> Sibling Support Project's Web Page (see address below). Finally, if you have

> further questions about SibKids, SibNet, our Sibshops, or the work of the

> Sibling Support Project, please contact:

>

> Don Meyer, Director

> Sibling Support Project

> 6512 23rd Ave NW

> #213

> Seattle, WA 98117

> 206-297-6368

> donmeyer@...

> www.siblingsupport.org

>

>

> _________________________________________

>

> Workshops on Sibling Issues and Training on the Sibshop Model

> The Sibling Support Project is pleased to announce that we are now scheduling

> workshops for 2008. Please share this announcement with families you know and

> 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 for only these reasons:

>

> Siblings will be in the lives of family members with special needs longer than

> anyone. Brothers and sisters will be there after parents are gone and special

> education services are a distant memory. 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 siblings’ life-long “typically-developing role models.”

>

> The Sibling Support Project is the United States’ only 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’ve conducted workshops on sibling issues in all 50 states, Canada, Ireland,

> Italy, Japan, Guatemala,New Zealand, and England and have helped establish

over

> 200 replications of our award-winning Sibshop program in eight countries. Our

> books for families include Sibshops, Views from Our Shoes, Living with a

Brother

> or Sister with Special Needs, and Uncommon Fathers and our new book for teen

> sibs, The Sibling Slam Book. And our work and publications have been featured

> in newspapers (Washington Post, New York Times), magazines (Exceptional

Parent,

> Sesame Street Parent, Reader’s Digest), professional publications (JASH,

Journal

> of Pediatric Psychology, The American Academy of Pediatrics News), and

> television (ABC News’ 20/20, Nightline and World News Tonight and Brazelton on

> Parenting) across the United States.

>

> 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.

>

> Addressing siblings’ concerns benefits everyone: brothers, sisters, parents,

> agencies, taxpayers and especially the family member who has special needs.

In

> many important ways, brothers and sisters ARE the future--and are too

important

> to ignore.

>

> If you would like to learn more about our workshops, seminars, and keynotes

> please call or contact us by email and we’d be happy to send you more

> information. Our schedule is beginning to fill up, but we still have

openings.

>

> Don Meyer

> Director, Sibling Support Project

> A Kindering Center program

> 6512 23rd Ave NW, #213

> Seattle, WA 98117

> 206-297-6368

> donmeyer@...

> Sibling Support Project website: www.siblingsupport.org

> Support Project online training calendar: http://plus.calendars.net/sibshop

> Our brothers, Our sisters, Ourselves

>

>

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Subject: Sibling groups and Workshops on Sibling Concerns>>> Hi—>> I am the director of the Sibling Support Project, the UnitedStates' sole> national effort dedicated to the interests of over six millionbrothers and> sisters of people with special health, mental health, anddevelopmental needs.>> Like you, I maintain lists on groups under the "Special NeedsFamily"> category. Our lists focus on the concerns of brothers andsisters. Our lists> include SibKids (for young sibs), SibNet (for adult sibs), andSibGroup (for> those running Sibshops and similar peer support efforts for youngbrothers and> sisters).>> I am hoping you will be kind enough to share the following two-part announcement> with the members of your list. The first part is about thegroups we> sponsor and the second is about

the workshops we conduct onsibling issues and> training we provide on the Sibshop model. (I'll leave it up toyou if you want> to send this out as one email or break it up into two.) Shouldyou need> suggestions for subject lines, the first could be: "Announcing theSibKids and> SibNet Listservs" and the second could be "Workshops on SiblingIssues and> Training on the Sibshop Model.">> Thank you, in advance, for considering this! If I can provide youwith any> further information about these announcements or the work of ourproject, please> let me know.>> Sincerely,>> Don Meyer> Director, Sibling Support Project> 6512 23rd Ave NW, #213> Seattle, WA 98117> 206-297-6368> donmeyer@...> www.siblingsupport.org> Online Training Calendar at www.calsnet.net/sibshop>>

_________________________________>> Announcing the SibKids and SibNet Listservs (please share thiswith families and> service providers in the disability, health, and mental healthcommunities!)>> The Sibling Support Project of the Arc of the United States ispleased to> announce SibNet and SibKids. SibNet and SibKids are theInternet's only> listservs for and about brothers and sisters of people withspecial health,> developmental, and emotional needs.>> Both SibKids (for younger brothers and sisters) and SibNet (forolder siblings)> allow brothers and sisters an opportunity to connect with theirpeers from> around the world. Both listservs have members from theUS, Canada,Australia,> England, Japan and elsewhere. SibNet (started in 1996) andSibKids (started in> 1997) are remarkably warm, thoughtful, and informative

communitieswhere young> and adult brothers and sisters share information and discussissues of common> interest.>> Anyone who has email can subscribe to SibKids and SibNet. For ano-cost> subscription and to learn more about SibKids and SibNet, pleasevisit the> Sibling Support Project's Web Page (see address below). Finally,if you have> further questions about SibKids, SibNet, our Sibshops, or the workof the> Sibling Support Project, please contact:>> Don Meyer, Director> Sibling Support Project> 6512 23rd Ave NW> #213> Seattle, WA 98117> 206-297-6368> donmeyer@...> www.siblingsupport.org>>> _________________________________________>> Workshops on Sibling Issues and Training on the Sibshop Model> The Sibling Support Project is pleased to announce that we are

nowscheduling> workshops for 2008. Please share this announcement with familiesyou know and> training directors, conference planners, and coordinators offamily services> from appropriate agencies.> Many agencies wisely value the families they serve and arecommitted to> providing family-centered care and services. However, even themost> family-friendly agencies often overlook brothers and sisters.Brothers and> sisters are too important to ignore, if for only these reasons:>> Siblings will be in the lives of family members with special needslonger than> anyone. Brothers and sisters will be there after parents are goneand special> education services are a distant memory. If they are providedwith support and> information, they can help their sibs live dignified lives fromchildhood to> their senior years.> Throughout

their lives, brothers and sisters share many of theconcerns that> parents of children with special needs experience, includingisolation, a need> for information, guilt, concerns about the future, and caregivingdemands.> Brothers and sisters also face issues that are uniquely theirsincluding> resentment, peer issues, embarrassment, and pressure to achieve.> No classmate in an inclusive classroom will have a greater impacton the social> development of a child with a disability than brothers and sisterswill. They> will be their siblings' life-long "typically-developing rolemodels.">> The Sibling Support Project is the United States' only nationalproject> dedicated to the concerns of brothers and sisters of people withspecial health,> developmental and mental health concerns. We specialize inproviding lively,> family-friendly, and highly-rated

workshops on sibling (and fatherand> grandparent!) issues to audiences of parents, service providers,university> staff and students, and siblings of all ages.>> We've conducted workshops on sibling issues in all 50 states,Canada, Ireland,> Italy, Japan, Guatemala,New Zealand, and England and have helpedestablish over> 200 replications of our award-winning Sibshop program in eightcountries. Our> books for families include Sibshops, Views from Our Shoes, Livingwith a Brother> or Sister with Special Needs, and Uncommon Fathers and our newbook for teen> sibs, The Sibling Slam Book. And our work and publications havebeen featured> in newspapers (Washington Post, New York Times), magazines(Exceptional Parent,> Sesame Street Parent, Reader's Digest), professional publications(JASH, Journal> of Pediatric Psychology, The American Academy of

Pediatrics News),and> television (ABC News' 20/20, Nightline and World News Tonight andBrazelton on> Parenting) across the United States.>> We'd welcome an opportunity to present at your agency or your nextconference or> training event. We'll show you how parents and providers candecrease siblings'> concerns and increase their opportunities, how to create "siblingfriendly"> services, and even how to start your own Sibshop.>> Addressing siblings' concerns benefits everyone: brothers,sisters, parents,> agencies, taxpayers and especially the family member who hasspecial needs. In> many important ways, brothers and sisters ARE the future--and aretoo important> to ignore.>> If you would like to learn more about our workshops, seminars, andkeynotes> please call or contact us by email and we'd be happy to send youmore>

information. Our schedule is beginning to fill up, but we stillhave openings.>> Don Meyer> Director, Sibling Support Project> A Kindering Center program> 6512 23rd Ave NW, #213> Seattle, WA 98117> 206-297-6368> donmeyer@...> Sibling Support Project website: www.siblingsupport.org> Support Project online training calendar:http://plus.calendars.net/sibshop> Our brothers, Our sisters, Ourselves>