October 2007 Business

1) “F” was the moderator & Jeanette timed for the meeting

2) Creating a Mental Health Professional Contact Page on our website:
We discussed creating a new page for the website that would show any mental health professionals who would like to have their names and contact info. listed. We would only post those who are comfortable working with DID/dissociative clients. “C”drafted a proposed website page and email invitation (to go to everyone on the email list), both of which the group discussed, edited and approved. As of this posting, there is now a web page on our site waiting to be filled with names of those mental health professionals who are willing to help.

3) Partner’s Group:
The idea of starting a partner’s group was approved. Our group agreed that this was a good idea as long as it didn’t interfere with the privacy of those in the current DID group. Since it was discussed that it would be most convenient to have the partner’s group meet at the same time and in the same general area, the partner’s group would need to meet in a different building, and members from the partner’s group should not plan to come back to the DID group meeting room/building to meet their DID partner. In general, it was decided that the partner’s group, once started, could run itself as they desire. We would provide them with our basic guidelines, from which they can create their own if they wish. To start with though, it will be peer led, and will meet in a public area nearby at no cost. An initial group of a few will meet first to get this started. More information will be posted in coming months – so that this group is more open and available to others as well.