Menu Close

Siblings of Children with Serious Illness

Find information about how to support siblings

Siblings of children with serious illness often face unique challenges and emotional needs. Parents may need guidance on how to provide care and support for siblings. Find information about helping siblings cope with their feelings, address their concerns, foster open communication, and ensure siblings feel valued and understood. 

Featured resources

  • Mother talking with daughter in Family Commons art space
    For Parents and Caregivers

    Caring for a child with a serious disease can be challenging. Find resources to support physical, emotional, social, and spiritual well-being.

  • Cartoon of types of medicine
    Child-Friendly Definitions

    Explaining cancer to children can be challenging. This list of words provides child-friendly definitions to commonly used words about cancer diagnosis and treatment.

  • Monarch butterfly settling on flower
    Helping Siblings with Grief

    While you have lost a child, your other children have lost a brother or sister. You are both grieving the loss of a special family member.