Siblings
Sibling support – Sibshop Workshop
Sibling support – Sibshop Workshop Saturday 10th September 2022
We have organised a Sibling Support Workshop for our Branch.
Saturday 10th September 2022 in Drogheda Presbyterian Church from 2.00 – 4.30 pm.
The Workshops are carried out by Liz Fitzpatrick & Linda Foley who are both Nurses working with children with Intellectual disabilities. They are qualified Sibshop Facilitators and run Sibshop workshops which are afternoons of fun for siblings of children with special needs. Please see attached leaflet.
As well as having lots of fun it provides a great opportunity for siblings to get together and chat about some of the difficulties and the positives of having a sibling with Special Needs.
The workshops are for our member’s Siblings aged between 7 & 13 and the members with Down Syndrome should be over 2.5 years old so that the Siblings can see and understand that their brother or sister has special needs.
These Sibshops are free to our members.
Please reply to secretarydslm@gmail.com or text Brendan at 083 8972044 to register your intention to attend.
Place on each workshop is limited to 12 and places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
“SIBSHOP WORKSHOPS (duration 2.5 hours)
Sibshops are fun workshops for siblings of children with special needs. We run them on weekend afternoons or during school holidays. They are lively, with games and discussions. We also prepare a snack and/ or make pizzas with the children.
As well as having lots of fun it provides a great opportunity for siblings to get together and chat about some of the difficulties and the positives of having a sibling with special needs.
The workshops are aimed at children aged between 8-12 years with a maximum of 12 children in the group recommended as we find this works best in order to give all the children a chance to contribute to the discussions and games. Their sibling with special needs should be over 2 and a half years old so that they can see and understand that their brother or sister has special needs.”
Virtual Sibshops
We organised 2 Virtual Sibshops which were run by Sibshop Ireland on Saturday 28th November and Sunday 29th November.
Feedback has been positive.
A big Thank You to Liz & Linda from Sibshop Ireland as well as all our wonderful Siblings who took part.
We hope to run them again early in the New Year.
Virtual Sibshop Pilot
We help a pilot Sibshop call on Zoom last evening Monday 4th May between Liz from Sibshop Ireland and some of our regular siblings. It was a Catch-up and chat to see how it would work for us.
The feedback has been positive so far and if that continues we will roll it out during Lockdown.
Thanks to all the Siblings who took part.