Aims:
- To provide information and to facilitate mutual support for adults who experience dissociative identity (multiple personality) or similar childhood-trauma-related complex dissociative disorder, and their friends, family and carers (allies);
- To promote a better understanding of these conditions among health, social care and related workers in the statutory, voluntary and private sectors with a view to improving services for those affected; and
- To advance the education of the general public in order to promote a better understanding and acceptance of people who experience these conditions.
services provided:
- Maintaining a membership which is open to adults who experience dissociative identity (multiple personality) or similar childhood-trauma-related complex dissociative disorder; affiliate membership is available for partners, family, friends and carers including anyone with a work-related interest in these conditions (allies), and to any member of the general public with an interest in supporting their work;
- Producing 4 issues of a support and information newsletter per year for members and affiliates;
- Organising 2 or 3 membership meetings a year
- Maintaining a web-site, including a members-only area offering an interactive mutual support forum and access to all back issue of our newsletter
- Providing training and awareness-raising as in-house or public access events for other organisations
- Organising our own public access training days and conferences
- Providing speakers and displays for other organisation’s conferences and training events
- Participating in external consultations and providing ‘expert by experience’ input into relevant policy and strategy developments
- Developing an introductory level training DVD
- Writing and disseminating paper-based information resources, including the booklet “Understanding Dissociative Disorders” published by Mind, our own series of fact sheets (currently being re-developed) and a reading list
- Networking and co-operating with other organisations that have similar aims and interests.
Address
PO Box 2537
Wolverhampton
WV4 4ZL
Phone: 01902 810 082
Website: http://www.firstpersonplural.org.uk/
Email: fpp@firstpersonplural.org.uk
