WisconSibs look forward to Spring. Warmer weather. New life. And one of our favorite holidays, National Siblings Day (always on April 10). It also means it’s time we look forward to seeing Peeps everywhere and our Sibs Are My Peeps photo contest!
It just takes a few Peeps, some glue, a box, paper or decorations of your choice, and a little imagination. This year’s theme is “PEEPlympics”. Imagine using Peeps to show your favorite Olympic event, celebration or sport.
The Sibs Are My Peeps contest runs from March 1 – 31. See below for more details.
Check back later for info on the 2025 contest
The Sibs are My Peeps Photo Contest is open to any age, any ability, from any where. You can enter more than one scene. More than one person per family, group, business, or class may enter, too.
So show us your best “PEEPlympics” scene. What will you re-create with Peeps? We can’t wait to see your scenes!
We salute Anna & Analiese from New London/Hortonville, WI
for their 2019 entry “Peeps Grand Cinema”.
Anna and Analiese were each just 9 years old in 2019 but already huge advocates for people with disabilities. They noticed that the cinema in the town did not have accessibility for people using wheelchairs. Their 2019 entry in the Sibs Are My Peeps photo contest corrected that. Their entry stated “Our theater doesn’t have “handicap” spots for Lilliana (Analiese’s sister) so we have to sit at the edge of the row with her chair parked in the aisle.
Our Peeps Cinema has a concession stand, popcorn stand and a front row spot for Peep Lilliana. There’s even popcorn on the floor like a real theater.”
Anna and Analiese were awarded a special award, the “At-ta-Peep” Advocacy for Sibs and their Peeps.
Congratulations to all of the
2019 Sibs Are My Peeps Photo Contest finalists:
Taelyn, Gia, and Maribel from Brillion for “Peep on Swimming”
Glenbrook Elementary School – Mrs. Rettler’s class for “Go Peeps Go”
Anna & Analiese from New London/Hortonville, WI for “Peeps Grand Cinema”
Leah Quinn from Neenah for “Peep Yoga Studio”
The staff and clients of CP Fox Cities for “Party on Peepabago”
A2Z Design from Appleton for “Peeps Be Chillin’”
Elise from Appleton for “Peepin’ Around the Farm”
Penelope from Hortonville for “Peeps Cabin”
and honorable mention from entries by Denmark High School Photography students.
PEEP WATCH:
WINNER OF THE 2017 PEEPL’S CHOICE AWARD
Peepwatch created by the staff and clients of the CP Center – Kimberly
Close-ups of the different features of the Peepwatch display.
A BEARY FUN CAMPING TRIP: WINNER OF THE 2016 PEEPL’S CHOICE AWARD
Submitted by: Sophia Nedens, Garrett Nedens A BEARY Fun Camping Trip
My family and I took a trip to Montana to see our Grandparents and of course, go camping! We took a drive up a mountain in our four wheeler, played TV (we acted out TV shows as Grandpa and Dad clicked the channel button on our “remote”) and even encountered fresh bear poop!
After watching a documentary on bear attacks the night before departing and finding out our camp site was surrounded by raspberry bushes, Mom and Grandma decided not to come. So we enjoyed some fun times with Dad (the peep sitting in the peach ring float) Noah, (the peep roasting a marshmallow over a fire) Garrett, (the fishing peep with a Sibshop shirt) Grandpa, (the peep wearing a bear mask and hiding behind the tent trying to scare us) and I. (The peep attracting bunnies with a Lego carrot).
Enjoy these entries and winners in the 2016 Siblings Are My Peeps Contest
Submitted by: Angela NeSmith Little Peeps in the Woods
Submitted by: The Benz Bunch (Anna, Aaron, John, Maria, and Claire) Jelly Peeps
Submitted by: NAMI Fox Valley: Helen Timm, Ralph Timm, Kelly Kumbier, Wendy Magas, Maren Peterson, Dinny Grueneberg, Hoppy Peep Lanes
Submitted by SOAR Fox Cities Connor Baumgartner, Nick Smithback, Cade McCallister Title: SOAR to the Stars – Peep Edition
Submitted by: Mary Leupold, Barbara McDonald, Victoria Vertz, Savannah and Chelsea Brandenburg
Submitted by: Savannah Vertz Pool Party
Family Respite Care Services: Janesville
Family Respite Care Services: Beloit
Family Respite Care Services: Beloit
Family Respite Care Services: Beloit
Family Respite Care Services: Janesville
Family Respite Care Services: Janesville
Submitted by: Kim Hruska, Katerina Hruska Syble “Hopp” School
Submitted by: Kim Hruska, Katerina Hruska Show Siblings
Submitted by: Taylor Stanis, Alivya Stanis, Ava Stanis, Westli Stanis Egg-ceptional Twin Peeps
Submitted by Team Soul Sisters: Ashley Noggle, Megan Noggle, Lauren Noggle, Brooke Noggle You Scream, I Scream, All Peeps Scream for Ice Cream
Submitted by Team Soul Sisters: Ashley Noggle, Megan Noggle, Lauren Noggle, Brooke Noggle Boston Peep Party
Submitted by the Northeast Regional Center for Children & Youth with Special Health Care Needs (Tracey Ratzburg, Kara Van Vooren, Molly Martzke, Suzanne DeGroot, and Joe Hameister) Making S’more Memories with Our Peeps
Submitted by: Sophia Nedens, Garrett Nedens A BEARY Fun Camping Tirp
The Princess and the Peep: designed by Emily Bowles and Aurora Smith
Stellaluna and her Peeps: Emily Bowles and Aurora Smith
Peeps® corporation is in no way sponsoring or involved in our contest.
Siblings: This is a great opportunity to get information and even PRIZES!
The 18th Annual Senior Living EXPO takes place Thursday, September 17 from 8 am – noon at Player’s Choice in Appleton.
Free health screenings, speakers, interactive exhibits, entertainment, and prizes to celebrate life after 50. Anyone over 50 or caring for someone over 50 will leave with ideas, insights, and much, much more.
NEW THIS YEAR – Outagamie Caregiver Coalition is offering their Caregiver Café! Join in these conversation sessions with others who are providing care for family members, friends or neighbors. Sessions are scheduled at 10:00 am, 10:30 am, and 11:00 am. Each session is facilitated by trained café conversations hosts. Anyone, regardless of age, who is providing care of any type for a loved one will enjoy this opportunity to connect, share and get information. WisconSibs, Inc is a member of the Outagamie Caregiver Coalition and will be helping lead these sessions.
Admission to the Senior Expo is $2. For FREE tickets, click HERE
We are so excited that you are here. Whether you are visiting us for the first time, or have followed us for years, we welcome you to our new website…and our new name!
For years we have been serving siblings, professionals and others as the Fox Valley Sibling Support Network. It was a fitting name for a new nonprofit back in 1998 who was breaking through with new ideas and wanted to create and develop high quality programs and services for siblings throughout their lifelong journey.
As those programs developed and have grown, we’ve become recognized as a unique resource throughout the state of Wisconsin and beyond with our Sibshops, Sib Camps, teen leadership opportunities and adult sibling programs. The need for such services has grown, too, as more people with disabilities grow older, and siblings find themselves dealing with issues of aging parents, growing children, and quality of life choices with their siblings.
So lets get acquainted. Look around our new site. Whether you are a sibling or other family member, a professional, or a volunteer interested in the concerns of people with disabilities, we hope you find an opportunity to get involved in WisconSibs.
Here are links to the websites of agencies and organizations across the state and in the Fox Valley that serve individuals and families affected by disability and long-term illnesses.
Know of one that should be listed here, but isn’t? Click here to send us a message.
Upcoming events –
Fox Cities Kidz Expo – Look for our Sibs Are My Peeps display – April 15, 2023 – Fox Cities Exhibition Center
For the past 20 years, we’ve been serving Wisconsin brothers and sisters of people with disabilities. We’ve sponsored regular Sibshops® and camps for boys and girls (based in northeastern Wisconsin, but open to all) and we’ve delivered future-planning training and social events for adults and families. Click WISCONSIBS 20TH ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE BROCHURE
We’ve helped hundreds of children, teens and adults who live each day with siblings with autism, intellectual/developmental disabilities, physical disabilities and mental illness connect with resources and each other to help them throughout their lifelong journey.
As WisconSibs and WisconSibs/Fox Valley:
We continue to provide Sibshops®, camps, future planning and events for families that are open to all, but centered in northeastern Wisconsin.
We are expanding online content, consulting, coaching, future planning, and conference presentations for siblings, agencies, educators, social workers, and other professionals throughout the state.
We are strengthening our role as the Wisconsin chapter of the national Sibling Leadership Network, and will continue to connect siblings throughout Wisconsin.
Our Mission
To foster a community of support and understanding for brothers and sisters of individuals with special needs.
Our vision
Siblings will thrive throughout their unique life-long journey.
Our values
We focus on siblings and believe that when the voices of siblings of individuals with developmental disabilities or long-term illnesses are heard, individual families, communities and society benefit as a whole.
We aim to help siblings feel less isolated and more empowered when it comes to unique issues they care about as siblings.
More than ever, siblings have a critical role in the quality of life of their vulnerable siblings.
We believe brothers and sisters have perspectives that are unique from other family members, service providers, funders or government agencies, and those perspectives are critical to ensure the quality of life of individuals with developmental disabilities or long-term illnesses. We are prepared to listen and serve as a voice for the interests of these siblings.
They serve as advocates, listeners, care givers, guardians, and much more. That not only benefits their sibling with disabilities, but also taxpayers who otherwise could be called upon to support even costlier social services.
We know that for most, the sibling journey is life-long, beginning in childhood. Therefore, siblings of all ages need information, opportunities for emotional support and sharing, and leadership guidance to advocate for their needs and the needs of their brothers and sisters with disabilities.
Relationships between brothers and sisters can grow and change, and then change some more. Sometimes these relationships are difficult . . . they are always interesting. Giving opportunities to celebrate, enjoy or start sibling traditions, and supporting resilient relationships is a joyful result for siblings and for WisconSibs.
Knowing that others share the same concerns can affirm a sibling and allow him or her to grow with confidence and pride in themselves and their sibling.
We respect siblings in their choice to be lovingly involved at whatever level and in whatever way they choose.
We believe the family is the most important support system and can best help children – in particular children growing up with siblings who have developmental disabilities or long-term illnesses – if provided with information, services, and encouragement.
About our logo
WisconSibs connects siblings of people with disabilities with each other, and with resources to help them throughout their lifelong journey.
Our logo reflects that:
The “i”s of differing sizes represent the different-ness of siblings (child/adult, male/female, etc.) – the diversity of people we serve.
The span of dots reflects connection, growth, and lifelong journey. Like the arch of a bridge, it symbolizes strength and support.
The colors begin with the green and blue of our former Fox Valley Sibling Support Network identity and expand to include other primary colors. That offers a fun and vibrant palette that plays to our mission to help siblings thrive throughout their lifelong journey.
Staff, board members and siblings are available to speak to your group meeting or conference . . .
Siblings looking for information with a big dose of peer support, and a lot of fun keep coming back. Adult siblings often tell me, “I wish you had been around when I was growing up, but glad you are here for me now.” – Harriet Redman, WisconSibs, Inc Founder
