START is a registered charity with the Charity Commission (number 1143737) and is run by a Board of Trustees who have the financial and legal responsibility for the Trust. They in turn delegate the running of each of the projects that START is involved in to the Management Committee.
START exists to promote recovery from and raise awareness of Dissociative Disorders by providing training, education and support to dissociative survivors and their professional and lay supporters, and by campaigning for appropriate treatment.
We intend to fulfil our aim by four objectives:
- Promoting the psychological and physical wellbeing of dissociative survivors of trauma and abuse
- Providing training, education and support for dissociative survivors and their professional and lay supporters
- Raising awareness and reducing the stigma of dissociative disorders in society
- Campaigning for appropriate treatment for those with a dissociative disorder
START provides the legal, administrative and financial structure to enable these objectives to be met through a number of different but connected projects. These are currently:
More details will appear here soon, but in the meantime please click on the links at the top of the page for more information.
