ICHC Training Institute

UPCOMING TRAININGS

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MHA-SF holds trainings for housing providers, In-Home Supportive Services workers, case managers and other professionals who work with those who compulsively hoard through the development of a Hoarding and Cluttering Training Institute. The Training Institute provides half day and day-long trainings for specialized professions on compulsive hoarding. Trainings for professionals will provide Continuing Education Units (CEUs). All training participants receive an MHA-SF Certificate of Completion. Trainings are provided by MHA-SF staff, Michael A. Tompkins Ph.D. of the San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy and other local experts affiliated with MHA-SF.

Trainings focus on harm-reduction rather than treatment, per se. Harm reduction assumes that it is not necessary to stop all compulsive acquiring, or to clear homes completely in order to stop harm, and proposes that the goal of stopping all acquiring or removing all clutter is unrealistic. Harm reduction emphasizes improving the safety, health and comfort of persons who hoard, while also improving relationships between the person who hoards and his or her family members or caregivers.

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