Hoarding Resources

Here are some resources highlighted during a Hoarding presentation given at our August Homeless Services Planning Committee meeting:

HOMES Risk Assessment – A hoarding risk assessment tool developed by Christiana Bratiotis, Ph.D, LICSW while at Boston University

Hoarding Fact Sheet – Published by the International OCD Foundation

Metro Boston Housing Partnership’s Hoarding and Sanitation Initiative – webpage

In addition, we were notified via email of an upcoming training in October:

Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership presents

Harm Reduction:

A Pragmatic Approach to Severe Hoarding

by Michael A. Tompkins, Ph.D.

 Wednesday, October 29, 2014

9 a.m.- 4 p.m.

Severe hoarding is a serious and growing problem. A combination of an unsafe living environment with an individual’s poor capacity to deal with that environment leads to high-risk situations that can result in eviction, homelessness, and even death. This workshop, led by licensed psychologist Michael Tompkins,  presents harm reduction as an alternative to treatment for severe hoarding.

Attendees will learn:

  • Factors that influence harm potential for people who hoard.

  • How to assess harm potential.

  • How to engage people who hoard in the harm reduction process.

  • How to develop a harm reduction plan.

  • Specific harm reduction strategies.

Cost: $60 per person — Includes breakfast and lunch — MBHP plans to offer CEUs for this training

For more information, and to receive an email notice about upcoming registration, contact Jesse Edsell-Vetter at jesse.vetter@mbhp.org.

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