Services
Sib Squad Peer Connection
Sib Squad is a community group designed to promote peer connection among siblings facing similar needs and coping challenges related to having a brother or sister diagnosed with a serious childhood illness, disability, neurodivergence, injury or a foster sibling.
Sib Squad is designed to create opportunities to reduce feelings of isolation by connecting peers on common ground.
About
Rooted in Purpose: Sib Squad Goals
Chilren don't easily, or automatically articulate with words.
It is not common to hear:
"Hey, I'm feeling stressed out about my sibling navigating challenging healthcare issues and as a result I'm feeling worried, resentful, burdened by extra responsibility, fearful, and isolated."
Sib Squad provides a therapeutic setting where children use play, movement, and opportunities for expression to process their feelings, learn words to describe their internal experiences, and develop coping outlets with peers navigating similar experiences.
Sib Squad promotes and supports hope and resilience.
The Developmental Interaction Approach
“To learn from experiences, children must engage directly and actively with the social and physical environment and be offered varied opportunities to see, hear, touch, smell, and taste their world. Thinking, sensing, feeling children make connections” - (Roopnarine, J. L., Johnson, J. E., Cuffaro, H. K., & Nager, N).
Social Goals
Connect with peers who have similar sibling experiences and develop relationships
Physical Goals
Support the nervous system through movement, identify and plan for stressors
Emotional Goals
Recognize emotions and related sensations, express and organize feelings
Cognitive Goals
Develop new language and understanding to gain mastery over experiences
Grief Goals
Learn what grief is, how it shows up, how to identify, normalize, process, make meaning, and move forward with it
Coping, Hope, & Resilience Goals
Develop strategies for stress, and grow in gratitude
Communication & Family Goals
Identify family values, strengths and roles
Individual Values & Goals
Identify self-worth and individual interests
Sib Squad Themes & Schedule
Current Schedule
Location: The Third Place for Kids
Parker, CO
For siblings of children with disabilities, neurodivergence or other special healthcare needs.
Ages 7 - 12 years old, in 2nd - 5th grade
Wednesdays, 6:30 - 7:30 pm
9/23/26, 10/7/26, 10/21/26, 11/4/26, 11/18/26
Parachute Pizza Toss, Obstacle Course, Making my Mark, Finding a Hope Scavenger Hunt, Grappling with Grief and Gratitude
