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SIBSPlace offers expressive arts activities, verbal activities, art expressive activities, and music expressive activities for children. The program also includes planned activities facilitated by mental health staff and homework help as part of its regular offerings.
• Price: Free support for children with a traumatically ill sibling or parent
SIBSPlace was conceptualized to assist children who have brothers and sisters with cancer or another devastating illness, and its mission has expanded to include children who have a parent with a devastating diagnosis. Since opening its doors in October of 2000, SIBSPlace has followed a psychosocial support model based in prevention theory. Expressive arts and verbal activities are facilitated to enhance self-awareness, self-expression, emotional vocabulary, and to validate feelings and behaviors to help participants develop and practice coping skills. The program designs opportunities for children to build meaningful relationships, externalize feelings, and have those feelings validated while connecting with peers living through similar circumstances. The curriculum is geared to promote resiliency while improving emotional vocabulary, self-expression, and self-awareness, and participants are provided with opportunities for empowerment to help build self-esteem and self-worth. Provision of consistent routines while engaging in an array of enriching activities fosters stability and the development of coping skills while increasing the children’s sense of power and control and reducing feelings of anxiety. The program is led by mental health staff and includes planned activities facilitated by these staff members. SIBSPlace is described as being like having an extended family, and its slogan is “SIBSPlace…A Place Where A Child Matters Most!”
Since 2015, SIBSPlace, Inc. has operated as a charitable foundation, and an official Board of Directors was approved in 2017 by the Mount Sinai South Nassau Board. Robust family participation, encouragement by Mount Sinai South Nassau, and dedicated community support led the program to apply for and receive a 501c-3 designation as a charitable foundation, and SIBSPlace, Inc. is now an affiliate of Mount Sinai South Nassau.
Parents and children have shared that “Right after my brother was diagnosed with cancer my mom went with him to the hospital and stayed FOREVER! I didn’t know who would help me with my homework. At SIBS, I get all the help I need.” One child said, “SIBSPlace is special to me because it feels like going to grandma's house ...” and another shared, “At SIBSPlace, there is always someone to help me with my homework ...” A parent said, “I am thankful for all of the people who insisted we go to SIBS ...”
Last updated May 29, 2026.
• Price: Free support for children with a traumatically ill sibling or parent
SIBSPlace was conceptualized to assist children who have brothers and sisters with cancer or another devastating illness, and its mission has expanded to include children who have a parent with a devastating diagnosis. Since opening its doors in October of 2000, SIBSPlace has followed a psychosocial support model based in prevention theory. Expressive arts and verbal activities are facilitated to enhance self-awareness, self-expression, emotional vocabulary, and to validate feelings and behaviors to help participants develop and practice coping skills. The program designs opportunities for children to build meaningful relationships, externalize feelings, and have those feelings validated while connecting with peers living through similar circumstances. The curriculum is geared to promote resiliency while improving emotional vocabulary, self-expression, and self-awareness, and participants are provided with opportunities for empowerment to help build self-esteem and self-worth. Provision of consistent routines while engaging in an array of enriching activities fosters stability and the development of coping skills while increasing the children’s sense of power and control and reducing feelings of anxiety. The program is led by mental health staff and includes planned activities facilitated by these staff members. SIBSPlace is described as being like having an extended family, and its slogan is “SIBSPlace…A Place Where A Child Matters Most!”
Since 2015, SIBSPlace, Inc. has operated as a charitable foundation, and an official Board of Directors was approved in 2017 by the Mount Sinai South Nassau Board. Robust family participation, encouragement by Mount Sinai South Nassau, and dedicated community support led the program to apply for and receive a 501c-3 designation as a charitable foundation, and SIBSPlace, Inc. is now an affiliate of Mount Sinai South Nassau.
Parents and children have shared that “Right after my brother was diagnosed with cancer my mom went with him to the hospital and stayed FOREVER! I didn’t know who would help me with my homework. At SIBS, I get all the help I need.” One child said, “SIBSPlace is special to me because it feels like going to grandma's house ...” and another shared, “At SIBSPlace, there is always someone to help me with my homework ...” A parent said, “I am thankful for all of the people who insisted we go to SIBS ...”
Last updated May 29, 2026.
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