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Adult Protective Services, State laws & Statewide Resources	National Center on Elder Abuse, by state Another source for by state listings Additional/related: Reporting elder abuse/self-neglect How APS works
Animal Hoarding Animal Hoarding:What caseworkers need to know Animal Hoarding News Only The H oarding of A nimals R esearch C onsortium News from HARC Humane Society of United States Animal Sheltering Interventions Public Policy Resource Manual More News New Report More Animal Hoarding articles Fact Sheet from wildlifeprotection.net	Animal Hoarding Crisis Intervention The Tufts University Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium (HARC) at is compiling a list of people who specialize in animal hoarding crisis intervention. One counselor available at present (See below). Fee-for-Service Consultations- Long distance telephone consultation services provided (or available) for out-of-state clients or organizations. References are available upon request. For further information and costs of service, contact Ms. Nathanson directly. Email: jnncnslt@aol.com or Telephone: (617) 325-4828
Cleaning Companies familiar with hoarded homes, local services for assistance cleaning out a hoarded homeNational: 1-800-GotJunk.com American Bio-Recovery Services ThePlan.com BERGFELD's Estate Clearance Services KRICSC SE U.S.: Fagala Biohazard Specialists, LLC Warning! Some of these companies are for crime scene clean-up companies and the graphic images on their sites might be disturbing. Crisis Cleaning Advice: From those that have done it. Crisis Cleaning discussion forum	Amdecon Discreet Cleaning Services From their site: Founded in 1999, Amdecon has helped thousands of families, business owners, and property owners deal with the tragic aftermath left behind at the scene of a suicide, homicide, hoarders, biological hazard or human decomposition. 1-888-872-0911 Clutterbusters •More information •Video Tips if you don't see one listed in your area: •Check the online classifieds on craigslist.org for “junk removal” services or for “handyman” and cleaning labor. •Check your local churches to see if they have volunteer groups to help clean out these types of homes. •Post on Freecycle.org •If you don't see a company listed in your area, some people have reported finding companies to clean out these types of homes by searching "crime scene clean-ups" or "meth lab clean-ups." •Also see our Family Resource Community where members can post known resources. -Back To Top-
Child Protective Services and related resources :	Phone numbers/websites, by state seeking information
Codes/Legal/Housing Nolo.com: Nolo's mission is to make the legal system work for everyone -- not just lawyers. Library of Congress Links to Web, gopher, telnet, and ftp sites that contain the full text of state statutes, state constitutions and other legislative resources American Law Sources On-line (ALSO) Links to state laws, court information, Attorney General opinions, and more FindLaw: State Links to State statutes, codes, Supreme Court opinions, and case law National Conference of State Legislatures Links to State Legislatures State and Local Government Resources on the Net By Piper Resources American Assn. of code enforcement	seeking information -Back To Top-
Doctors, Therapists, Counselors familiar with treating compulsive hoarding Finding a therapist: ADAA, ACT, ABCT, OCD-LA OCD therapist list from OC-Foundation Attention Deficit therapist referrals OCD Treatment Therapist List from the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation How to know if your therapist knows how to treat OCD? What to expect from CBT; How to Choose a Therapist "Treatments That Work", Clinicians Guide to treating Compulsive Hoarding: Frost/Steketee Watch for Michael Tompkins book in 2008.	What is a BTI Graduate? Baltimore: Donna E. Burns, LCPC 6525 N. Charles St – Suite 234 Baltimore, MD 21204 Phone: (410) 938-8464 Fax: (410) 938-4444 Child/Adol/Adult/100% OCD Practice/Home Visits/OC Spectrum Dis/BDD/Trichotillomania/Hoarding/ERP/CBT Gerald Nestadt, MD John Hopkins Hospital Meyer 4-181,500 N Wolfe Street Baltimore, MD 21287 Phone: (410) 955-4838 Email: Gnestadt@jhmi.edu Adol/Adult/Medication/OC Spectrum Disorders/BDD/Trichotillomania/Hoarding/Accepts Medicaid/Others in group practice CBT & ERP Bethesda: Jean F. Ratner, LCSW 8209 Hamilton Sp. Court Bethesda, MD 20817 Phone: (301) 469-8542 Fax: (301) 469-8691 Adol/Adult/Home Visits for Senior Citizens/ERP/CBT Richard Wolff, PhD Wildwood Medical Center 10401 Old Georgetown Road Bethesda, MD 20814 Phone: (301).530.4550 Fax: (301).530.2277 Child/Adol/Adults/ OC Spectrum Disorders/BDD/Trichotillomania/ Hoarding/Limited Home Visits/ERP/CBT Columbia: Deborah Cole, PsyD – BTI Graduate 8640 Guilford Road – Suite 235 Kings Contrivance Village Center Columbia, MD 21046 Phone: (410) 381-7551 or (301) 596-5916 Email: classicart@verizon.net Child/Adol/Adult/OC Spectrum Disorder/BDD/Trichotillomania/ Hoading/Home Visits/Therapy Group/ERP/CBT Note: Therapy Groups - Fee Based Trichotillomania Therapy Group and Hoarding/Clutter Therapy Group - Intake Required Fee Based Therapy Group. Behavior Therapy Institute Graduate John R. May, PhD 10774 Hickory Ridge Road Columbia, MD 21044 Phone: (410) 992-7288 or (410) 997-2880 Adults/OC Spectrum Disorders/Trichotillomania/Hoarding/Accepts Medicaid/Sliding Scale/ERP/CBT Frederick: David A. Dia, LCSW-C Blue Ridge Behavioral Health Serv. 170 Thomas Johnson Dr – Suite 200 Frederick, MD 21702 Phone: (301) 695-8390 x 217 Fax: (301) 694-7906 Email: DDia@ssw.umaryland.edu Child/Adol/Adult/Home Visits/OC Spectrum Disorder/BDD/Trichotillomania/Hoarding/ERP/ CBT Gaithersburg: Louis E. Kopolow, MD, DFAPA Assoc Psychotherapy Centers 8915 Shady Grove Ct. Gaithersburg, MD 20877 Phone: (301) 963-0060 Fax: (301) 258-7482 Email: Louiskopolowmd@aol.com Child/Adol/Adult/Medication/OC Spectrum Disorder/BDD/Trichotillomania/ Hoarding/Support Group/Bilingual Staff/ERP/CBT Cynthia M. Lincoln, LCSW-C, LLC 100 Barbon Street , 2nd Floor, Bayview Havre de Grace, MD 21078 Phone: (443) 466-6830 or (410).939.6336 Child/Adol/Adult/OC Spectrum Disorders/BDD/Trichotillomania/Hoarding/ ERP/CBT Jean F. Ratner, LCSW 10400 Connecticut Avenue # 201 Kensington, MD 20895 Phone: (301) 469-8542 Fax: (301) 469-8691 Adult/OC Spectrum Disorders/Home Visits/Sliding Scale/ERP/CBT Carol E. Watkins, MD 16829 York Road Box 544 Monkton, MD 21111 Phone: (410).329.2028 Child/Adol/Adult/Medication/OC Spectrum Disorder/BDD/Trichotillopmania/ Hoarding/ERP/CBT Joyce L. Robbins, ICSW – BTI Grad Kenneth X. Robbins, MD 11305 Rouen Drive Potomac, MD 20854 Phone: (301) 983-8368 Fax: (301) 299-2986 Child/Adol/Adult/Medication/Home Visits/OC Spectrum Disroders/BDD/Trichotillomania/Hoarding/ Support Group/Bilingual Staff/ERP/CBT Behavior Therapy Institute Graduate Lynne S. Gots, PhD - BTI Graduate 2301 Research Blvd – Suite 210 Rockville, MD 20850 Phone: (301) 217-9687 Adol/Adults/OC Spectrum Disorders/BDD/ Trichotillomania/ Hoarding/ERP/CBT Behavior Therapy Institute Graduate Meyer D. Glantz, PhD 6131 Executive Boulevard Rockville, MD 20852 Phone: (301) 881-0516 Adult/Refer for medication/OC Spectrum Disorders/Hoarding/CBT Sharon C. Cooper, PhD 6201 Executive Blvd Rockville, MD 20852 Phone: (301).299.3656 Adol/Adults/ OC Spectrum Disorders/BDD/Trichotillomania/ Hoarding/ERP/CBT Theresa P. Shank, PhD – BTI Graduate Psychological Resource Associates 479 Jumpers Hole Road – Suite 106 Severna Park, MD 21146 Phone: (410) 647-8840 Fax: (410) 647-1405 Child/Adol/Adult/OC Spectrum Disorders/ Trichotillomania/Hoarding/ERP/CBT Behavior Therapy Institute Graduate Ruth M.T. Stemberger, PhD 285 Wilderness Road Severna Park, MD 21146 Phone: (410).315.9797 Fax: (410).315.8015 Email: stemberger@verizon.net Child/Adol/Adult/OC Spectrum Disorder/BDD/Trichotillomania/Hoarding/ Home Visits/ERP/CBT Elspeth Bell, Ph.D. Charles S. Mansueto, Ph.D. Behavior Therapy Center of Greater Washington Silver Spring, MD 301-593-4040 Bruce Hershfield, MD - BTI Graduate 1415 Cold Bottom Road Sparks, MD 21152 Phone: (410) 771-4575 Fax: (208) 694-4107 Email: Bhershfield@aol.com Adol/Adult/Medication/OC Spectrum Disorders/BDD/Trichotillomania/ Hoarding/Home Visits/Support Group/ERP/CBT Dr. Sally Winston, PsyD – Co Director Anxiety Disorder & Stress Institute 6525 N. Charles Street Towson, MD 21204 Phone: (410) 938-8454 or (410) 938-8449 Fax: (410).825.7105 Email: Sallywinston@aol.com Website: www.anxietyandstress.com Child/Adol/Adult/Medication for s Only/Home Visits/OC Spectrum Disorder/BDD/Trichotillomania/ Hoarding/Bilingual Staff/ERP/CBT Back to top
Elder Services: National Center on Elder Abuse articles: Elderly & Compulsive Hoarding Elder law Disability Rights Resource Guide Preventing falls in older adults. More. Elder resource list Documents to have on aging parents Articles: Working With Individuals With Dementia Who Rummage and Hoard* (pdf) By: Rosemary Bakker, MS, ASID-Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Paulette Michaud, LMSW-Manager, Education & Training-Alzheimer's Association, NYC Chapter Senior's Cluttering Issues*: ClutterLESS.org Hoarding and Alzheimer's Disease-One Daughter's Story Presented by Rosemary Bakker, Director of NYC Hoarding Task Force on Hoarding and Older Adults Preventing Falls Among Older Adults Center for Disease Control and Prevention Fall Prevention Center of Excellence Information for individuals and families	National Eldercare Locator The Eldercare Locator is the first step to finding resources for older adults in any U.S. community. National Association of State Units on Aging National Association of Area Agencies on Aging find a resource in your area Locate your American Assn of Homes & Services for the Aged state association
Fire Safety Services/Hazard related: Advice from a paramedic on emergency access Firefighter Discussion forum: Compliance, "Collyer Mansions"	seeking information -Back To Top-
Hoarding Task Forces: All known U.S. Hoarding Task Forces & Related Community News Transcript of 1/94 Conference of NYC Hoarding Task Force, with Dr. Randy Frost Models to follow in communities: Dane County Hoarding Task Force Report This 40-page report is by the Dane County Hoarding Task Force (Madison, Wisconsin: 2000). It contains extensive information on housing ordinances, assessments, interventions and community agency protocols. Ottawa Community Response to Hoarding Coalition Comprised of 35 organizations. New England Hoarding Consortium newsletters: 2006 2007 Ideas to help a Hoarder realize they need support & help. Advice from family members. Send in yours. Advice on How & When to help from various sources. Video: "Hoarders Aren't Alone" How to Help "Do/Don't List" from a professional Interventions: Communication & Roles. pgs 9-17 How & When To Help A Hoarder Advice from a paramedic on emergency access Degrees of Squalor by Squalor Survivors Compulsive Hoarding Rating Scale by OCF (pdf) Clutter-Hoarding Scale, by the NSGCD (pdf)	seeking information
Local handymen/repair services (who have been personally used, are familiar with hoarded homes and will not judge):	seeking information
Local Meal Delivery Services (for when kitchens are not functional):	Sendameal.com: Not local, but can be ordered online for delivery. Just need an accesible microwave. Meals on Wheels near you.
Obsessive Compulsive Foundation Affiliate:	None known.
Professional organizers, familiar with treating hoarding clients and/or de-clutter helpers: Beth Johnson's one-on-one personal coaching via email and phone. (The Clutter Workshop)	You can see if any are listed here(National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization certificate program graduate lists.) The following three organizers were recommended to us by a person that hoards who has personally used them: Katherine Trezise Absolutely Organized, LLC 76 Cranbrook Road, #295 Cockeysville, MD 21030 Phone: 410-329-3300 Fax: 410-329-3142 E-mail: info@ absolutely-organized.com (secretary/staff Jennifer Power) Rose Zappa- Jehnert Get It 2Gether Organizational Services Forest Hill, MD 21050 Phone: 410-557-0497 Fax: 410-692-2564 rose@getit2gether.com Valerie Walker Destination Organized -Back To Top-
Support Groups (in-person)for Compulsive Hoarders:	National-check for a local listing Clutterers Anonymous, ClutterLESS Recovery Groups Columbia: Hoarding Therapy Group: Maryland Facilitated by Deborah S. Cole, PsyD 8640 Guilford Road – Suite 235 Kings Contrivance Village Center Columbia, MD 21046 Phone: (410) 381-7551 or (301) 596-5916 or (410) 381-7662 email: drdcole@starpower.net Hoarding/Clutter Therapy Group - Intake Required Fee Based Therapy Group. Behavior Therapy Institute Graduate Contact Dr. Cole for information about locations, times, dates, and fees. For those that want to stop being socially isolated due to their accumulated stuff and who are ready to give and receive support and help. The goal of the group is to learn to make the necessary difficult decisions, to learn to tolerate the pain of clearing things out, and to keep a schedule for maintaining one’s own space in a way that brings more peace of mind. Silver Spring: Dr. Elspeth Bell Charles S. Mansueto, Ph.D. Behavior Therapy Center of Greater Washington Silver Spring, MD 301-593-4040 Support Group: Intro group typically is offered twice a year, but days vary. On-going group now meets once a month, typically on the 3rd Wednesday of the month. For more specific information, e-mail ebellphd@yahoo.com, call 301-593-4040, x238, or visit: www.behaviortherapycenter.com Online groups, websites
Support Groups for family members:	Alanon Meeting locations Online: Family & Friends Online Community on COH website Family & Friends general discussion forum Support group list for family members COH-only Support Group: COH Support Group information. COH map. Group photo albums (members only) Repeating topics discussed (members only) For families where animal hoarding is a problem: See The Hoarding of Animals Research Consortium web site. Tips for families and friends -Back To Top-
Treatment Centers/Clinics: Intensive Treatment Programs for OCD	Behavior Therapy Center of Greater Washington Dr. Elspeth Bell Charles S. Mansueto, Ph.D. Silver Spring, MD 301-593-4040 The Anxiety & Stress Disorders Institute of Maryland, LLC Towson, MD 410-938-8449
Other resources & information to note:	Compulsive Hoarding Resource Discussion Forum -Find your state.

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