Connect with siblings across the state in our NC SIBS Facebook group. Swap stories, support others, get advice, and find out about statewide sibling related events.

The Sibling Leadership Network (SLN) provides siblings of individuals with disabilities the information, support, and tools to advocate with their brothers and sisters and to promote the issues important to them and their entire families. Find a sibling chapter in your state.

The Sibling Support Project is a national effort dedicated to the life-long concerns of brothers and sisters of people who have special health, developmental, or mental health concerns.

Provides resources, services, advocacy, and support to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. 1.800.662.8706 | www.arcnc.org

The Arc of the U.S. has created a Center for Future Planning that offers insight, guidance and assistance for families and individuals at various stages of future planning. Learn about future planning, build your plan, find professionals, and see how others have planned.

Sibshops are pedal-to-the-metal events where school-age brothers and sisters meet other sibs (usually for the first time), have fun, laugh, talk about the good and not-so good parts of having a sib with special needs, play some great games, learn something about the services their brothers and sister receive, and have some more fun. To find a Sibshop near you, visit HERE.

There are a number of online, interactive closed communities for siblings at different ages to connect with each other for information and peer support. Hosted by The Sibling Support Project, these groups serve as a front-line resource for sibs, by sibs! Siblings can look on Facebook to request to be added to a group.

SibTeen — for sibs who are teenagers

Sib20 — for siblings in their 20s

SibNet — for adult siblings

Provides family support to individuals with disabilities and their families living in the community. FIFNC additionally offers Lifetime Connections offering customized supports and future planning assistance. 919.251.8368

Providing caring connections and caring to families and children with disabilities, mental health challenges, and special healthcare needs and the community since 1985. 1-800-852-0042 | www.fsnnc.org

Mission is to ensure that people with developmental disabilities and their families participate in the design of and have access to culturally competent services and supports as well as other assistance opportunities which promote inclusive communities. 919.850.2901 | www.nccdd.org

Provides advocacy and legal services at no charge for people with disabilities across North Carolina, as the state’s federally mandated protection and advocacy system. 1.877.235.4210 | https://disabilityrightsnc.org

Community based services for people with intellectual/developmental disabilities are managed through a network of LME/ MCOs that oversee and manage local services. Find your local LME/MCO by visiting the site here. 1-800-662-7030

The Division of Aging works to promote the independence and enhance the dignity of North Carolina's older adults, persons with disabilities and their families through a community based system of opportunities, services, benefits and protections. 919-855-3400

North Carolina’s comprehensive center for a range of multidisciplinary clinical services, basic to applied research, clinical and research training and advocacy, with the goal of improving the lives of individuals with developmental disabilities and their families. 919-966-5171 | https://www.med.unc.edu/cidd

Committed to improving the lives and education of ALL children every day. 800-962-6817 | https://www.ecac-parentcenter.org

AKALAKA connects people caregiving for disabled family and friends with the peer-powered network needed to succeed at home and in our communities of choice. 704-916-9869 | www.akalaka.org

Creating and sharing resources and education to support Autistic individuals and their support network across the lifespan. www.autismgrownup.com

NAMI North Carolina is an organization of families, friends, and individuals whose lives have been affected by mental illness. Together, we advocate for better lives for those individuals who have a mental illness. 919-788-0801 Helpline- 800-451-9682 or text 919-999-6527 http://www.naminc.org

The Sibling Survival Guide: Indispensable Information for Brothers and Sisters of Adults with Disabilities. Edited by by Don Meyer and Emily Holl.

There are lots of great resources for siblings of all ages. Resources include articles and books, information on future planning, organizations, podcasts, resources for grieving siblings, and research. https://siblingsupport.org/resources