Best practices in working with siblings are supported when caseworkers and supervisors have the benefit of training on the importance of placing siblings together and maintaining sibling connections and have opportunities to learn and refine their skills in working with siblings in care.

NCCWE Sibling Practice Curriculum:
This comprehensive training on sibling practice in child welfare has the following objectives:

• enhance understanding of issues concerning siblings in out-of-home care
• expand knowledge and skills in making appropriate placement decisions for sibling groups
• enhance knowledge and skills in the recruitment and retention of resource families willing and able to parent sibling groups
• enhance ability to present appropriate information to the court to support sibling groups
• increase knowledge of policy and legislation affecting sibling placements in participants' jurisdictions

Module 1: The Issues

Module 2: Practice

Handouts

“Siblings: Critical Life-Long Connections” Teleconference
Listen to the audio files and download handouts from this teleconference on siblings in out-of-home care, hosted jointly by NCCWE and the Child Welfare League of America for state foster care and adoption managers. (2006)