May is National Foster Care Awareness Month. In May of 2022, Rob and Kate Bauer (Founders and Director of CTB-WI), met with the Department of Children and Families State Secretary Emilie Amundson to set up and display the mural for the month. The mural was designed and created by the 16 sibling groups who attended the August summer camp.

The design for the mural emerged from the collaborative dialogue the facilitator, Teresa Buss, had with the campers, camp volunteers and founding members. 

The structure of CTB-WI is  made up of multiple reunited sibling groups who are then combined into a larger "family group" for the duration of camp. The family groups  participate in programs, activities and meals together throughout the week. The families also join together as a whole to participate in community time. The structure of camp is how the number “3” surfaced and became a focal point for the question:  "What does CTB-WI mean” to them individually, as a siblings/family group, and as a whole?

The facilitator collected feedback from the campers, volunteers, and camp leaders, Based upon  initial feedback, the word, Love, and its common symbol, became the visual representation of the three components to execute the production of the mural to honor the sacred space, “Camp” has resonated with  for so many. The sibling groups created the individual panels  collectively to represent the impact camp has had on them.

When viewing the final collaborative mural, one can see the many individual panels that were completed by each sibling group respectively. If one looks closely at each panel's imagery and words, one can see what camp means to the youth personally, what camp means for their sibling group, and what the whole of camp means to them. The panels together reveal three hearts, or as some of the campers observed, one heart and a butterfly.