Compulsive Hoarding Top Cause Of Evictions & Homelessness
San Francisco Conference to address little known but prevalent mental illness...
The Mental Health Association of San Francisco (MHA-SF) will present its 10th Annual Hoarding and Cluttering Conference, Progress Not Perfection: Improving Health, Safety and Comfort Through Harm Reduction, on Thursday, October 18, 2007 at St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco. The conference is sponsored by KaiserPermanente, Oty and County of San Francisco, Community Behavioral Health Services, The California Endowment, CitiApartments, the San Francisco Mayors Office on Disability, the Volunteer Legal Services Program of the Bar Association of San Francisco and others.
Compulsive hoarding involves the collection or failure to discard large numbers of objects even when their storage causes significant clutter and impairment to basic living activities. Affecting an estimated 15 % of low-income tenants in San Francisco, compulsive hoarding also cuts across demographics of age, gender, ethnicity and socio-economic status. This unique conference will increase awareness about this serious issue and provide tools and hope for recovery through the sharing of expert research, legal advice, and resource exchange among mental health professionals, city department staff, housing providers, family members, and people who compulsively hoard.
MHA-SF is pleased to announce a distinguished multi-disciplinary group of speakers and presenters, including keynote, Michael A. Tompkins, Ph.D., licensed clinical psychologist and founding partner of the San Francisco Bay Area Center for Cognitive Therapy. The conference will be held on Thursday, October 18, 2007 from 9:00am to 4:00pm at St. Mary's Cathedral, 1111 Gough Street. Advanced Registration is $125 before October 12. Those interested may register online at www.mha-sf.org.
MHA-SF is a non-profit citizen's organization founded in 1947 dedicated to improving the mental health of residents in the diverse communities of San Francisco through advocacy, education, research and service. In June 2007, in partnership with the City and County of San Francisco Department of Aging and Adult Services, MHA-SF launched The San Francisco Task Force on Compulsive Hoarding, convening representatives from major city departments, housing providers, service providers, and others with the goal to coordinate services to reduce eviction and homelessness and improve the quality of life for those who compulsively hoard.
For more information, contact Belinda Lyons at (415) 421-1882 or belinda@mha-sf.org
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