Hoarding Level I
This well received and highly-evaluated one-day intensive workshop is for groups of all sizes who may or may not have first-hand experience working with hoarding situations and want or need to get a better understanding of hoarding behaviour.
Participants leave with a clear understanding of:
- The definition of hoarding
- Different types of hoarding
- How to identify hoarding
- Understanding what you see in hoarding situations
- Saving patterns in hoarding behaviour and how to identify them
- Additional disorders often found co-existing with hoarding behaviour
- Dos and don'ts of hoarding intervention
- A four-step process to assess if crisis services need to assess risk first (fire, public health, by-law, property standards, etc.)
- Recommended services
- Best-source research and what it says about hoarding behaviour and intervention
- Easy-to-use intervention tools & resources