The Plural Association supports thousands of Plurals, in over 50 countries
The Plural Association is the first and so far only, grassroots and peer-led, registered nonprofit (KVK 77247183) for people worldwide, living with Dissociative Identity Disorder, OSDD and all other forms of Multiplicity under the Plural umbrella.
TPA already supports over 3000 Plurals on a daily basis in over 50 countries and we now want to build a dedicated platform where we can provide live support via phone, chat and email. We have over 50 Plural volunteers ready to start training, which will happen once the platform is actually being built.
TPA is a registered SSBI Stichting, which is the dutch word for nonprofit and does not pay taxes over your donations.
The Plural Association is a volunteer - led NGO that depends fully on community and ally support
We are grassroots, volunteer and peer-led, registered nonprofit foundation with a social interest/goal.
In our case the empowerment of Plurals. You can read about our full 9 point mission statement by clicking here.
Please become a (financial) Plural ally today and donate towards the empowerment of Plurals.
Plurals deserve peer support, your financial gifts are what will make that a reality.
If you are financially able, please donate, together we empower more Plurals!
For just a $10 donation you can empower a Plural System and their Headmates through a warmline peer support call
Your financial gift helps Plurals and their Headmates find live support when they need it the most. At the warmline platform where Plurals and their Headmates can share their stories and worries with trained lived experience peer support Plurals.
We have based the price of $10 per warmline call on this source.
Your donations are what makes our work possible, your money directly empowers Plurals.
After overhead cost, we are legally obliged to spend 90% of donations on our main goal, which is the empowerment of Plurals.
What we use your donations for
We use donations to run The Plural Association, a grassroots, peer and volunteer-led nonprofit foundation.
We do not financially gatekeep, we provide free access to our conferences, communities, training and other events, for all those who depend on order to be able to participate.
The Plural Warmline is a free service where Plurals can share their stories and worries with trained peer support Plurals.
Warmline software is a product where you pay a monthly fee, per volunteer (or employee) for the basic software. Anything extra, costs more money, per month, per volunteer. Examples of extra add-on's are sms texting, transferring a call to a different volunteer / department, etc. On top of those cost, you also pay the call costs per (full) minute, yes for receiving the call. Calling outbound, is an extra add-on.
We give an overview in our newsletter on what we spend donations on in the last period, to be transparent. We also set a new fundraising goal, which is also announced in the newsletter.
After overhead cost, we are legally obliged to spend 90% of donations on our main goal, which is the empowerment of Plurals. Everyone on our team is a volunteer, to keep our overhead cost as low as possible, everyone works from home.
We do not receive any financial grants, government or other types of funding at the present time and are completely dependent on community and ally support.
We thank you for your trust and support.
The Plural Warmline
The Plural Warmline is a free warmline where Systems & their headmates can share their stories & worries with a trained, lived experienced peer support Plural volunteer via email, live chat, sms texts & calls.
A warmline is a line you reach out to before you reach a potential point of crisis. Our warmline for Plurals provides early intervention with emotional support that can prevent a crisis.
To be able to provide this service for free to all Plurals who need it, year round, we depend on continued donations.
Too many Plurals and their Headmates, can't find support at all or not outside of paid therapy
Over 75% of the Plurals we empower and support, live with Dissociative Identity Disorder. This debilitating disorder consists of having multiple parts of the personality, out of the ordinary forgetting (amnesia) and clinical distress.
The DSM-5 states that an alarming rate, of over 70% of outpatient people, who have repeated suicide attempts. Many of thousands of people we speak to on a daily basis, are either unable to find a therapist equipped, able and willing to take on (another) DID client.
Many report they need more support in between therapy sessions. So far this is not available, as most warm and hotlines are not familiar with how to support and empower Plurals.
DID/OSDD is not rare and suicide attempts are common
Contrary to popular belief, DID is not rare at all: The largest prevalence study into Dissociative Identity Disorder, from April 2019 showed that 3.7% of 30,000 college students scored for DID.
We also know that it takes 6 to 12 years to get a correct diagnosis for DID and that people collect up to 8 different, sometimes inaccurate diagnoses in the meantime.
Because of this, we estimate that no more than 0.5% of people with DID are actually correctly diagnosed! This is a huge problem. Not only is it extremely difficult to live a life without having system awareness, it is also dangerous.
It is of uttermost importance that Plurals find a place where they and their system are heard, understood and can safely ask their questions. A place where they can find support in between therapy or before therapy starts, as waiting lists are in many places years long. Plurals deserve peer support and together we make it a reality.
Our surveys show continuously that Plurals, no matter the label, desire support & empowerment
As you know, The Plural Association proudly supports all forms, types and experiences of Plurality and Plurals, no matter the word(s) or label(s) they use to describe those unique and individual experiences.
Because we know we can never ethically gatekeep and we can only empathize with someone's experience when we are willing to believe them as they see it and not how we imagine their experience to be. (Brene Brown.)
Since 2017 we have held surveys under our community members, to ask them all sorts of things, including what Plurality labels they use and if and how our work empowers and supports them. This important feedback, has shown us from day 1, dat all Plurals who desire support, no matter the label they use, benefit from receiving that support, once it is made available to them.
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Other ways to help to fundraise
There are various ways you can help us fundraise:
- Share our donation page on your social media, on your website, via email or by sharing with friends and family.
- Share our social media posts. - from: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube.
- Create a Facebook fundraiser. - Simply fill in the form and start fundraising.
- Fundraise on Twitch. - Just search for The Plural Association on 'Streamlabs charity' click 'fundraise' and follow the steps.
- Fundraise on YouTube. - Invite your viewers to donate in your video and add our donation link into a YouTube end card and video description.
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out! Thank you.
What Plurals say:
Thank you together we empower more Plurals!
TPA provides education, advocacy, and connection, combating isolation and stigma, thus supporting plurals in living happier, healthier lives.
Donate because DID affects 1 – 3 percent of the population but doesn’t get the recognition, acceptance, support or research that it deserves. Probably the most misunderstood, dismissed and hidden condition in society today.
Donations to TPA are so important because one of the scariest things is being on your own going through this; TPA helps stop us from being alone.
Donations toward TPA are very important because this will help so many plurals who maybe don’t have access to therapy, or who maybe want to meet others going through the same thing. It’ll make plurals feel less alone.
Having DID/alters can be an extremely isolating experience. The lack of widely available resources makes it even harder to manage symptoms. TPA is one of the only organizations completely focused on trying to change this. Supporting TPA could change lives. Including mine.
WE collectively need support and help and this is an opportunity to ask questions and talk with others like ourselves and that is extremely important.
This is the first time in nearly 30 yrs we have found safe people and places to talk all things plurality. TPA is the only place talking about inclusiveness and DOING something about it. Also the only ones to try and make Warmline.
There aren’t enough resources for DID, this is so needed because this is an isolating disorder.
Donations to TPA are incredibly important to plurals as it gives back to a community that withstands so much stigma. Donations ensure that plurals have a safe, empowering and informational space to grow as well as be themselves.
We need to put money into these types of organizations because currently the funding and support out there for DID suffers is severely lacking.
