Collaborative Community Approaches to Hoarding

Whether you have years of experience dealing with individuals with hoarding disorders or none at all, this program will help you bring together a team to effectively work with individuals suffering from this mental illness in your community.

A cross-discipline team approach

According to the American Psychiatric Association approximately 2 to 6 percent of the population suffers from a hoarding disorder. People with a hoarding disorder can create situations that cause health and safety concerns and leads to those on the front lines of enforcement to uncover these individuals. Dealing with hoarders on an individual basis can be time consuming and ineffective if the underlying mental health issues are not addressed. This program will give you tools to create teams in your area to effectively help people with hoarding disorders by working together to address this mental illness. 

This virtual interactive course is designed to give potential cross-discipline teams a way to come together with guided brainstorming and the ability to ask questions in order to create their own hoarding taskforce. We encourage participants who are contemplating developing hoarding taskforces, partnerships, or teams to attend the training together but this is not required. 

Some key takeaways will be: 

• Ways to identify collaborative opportunities 
• Tools to help secure buy-in and engagement from community partners 
• Tips in implementing collaborative community solutions 
• Ideas for establishing uniform protocols 

Who Should Attend

Social workers, counselors, therapists, police and fire department personnel, health department personnel, property management, and code enforcement personnel

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  Marnie Matthews is a licensed clinical social worker and the founder of The Clutter Movement, an online resource dedicated to the treatment, consultation, and training related to Hoarding Disorder. Before starting The Clutter Movement, Marnie was Clinical and Program Director of the North Shore Center for Hoarding and Cluttering, an n4a 2016 award-winning program she developed in 2012. Marnie speaks regularly across the U.S. on all aspects of Hoarding and developed the Uniform Inspection Checklist (UIC), a universal and objective tool for assessing and addressing hoarded situations. The UIC is used nationwide, in Canada, and Australia to resolve hoarding cases. Marnie has been Vice President of the Board of Directors at The Hoarding Project and has chaired Middle Tennessee and North Shore Hoarding Task Forces. Marnie has also been a member of the Boston Hoarding Task Force and the Massachusetts Statewide Steering Committee on Hoarding. In addition to being a Graduate Level Field Instructor for Salem State University, Simmons College, and Denver University, Marnie also provides clinical supervision for social workers working towards clinical licensure. Additionally, Marnie works out of the Nashville OCD & Anxiety Treatment Center treating individuals and families impacted by Hoarding Disorder, Anxiety Disorder, OCD, and Depression.