KNOWLEDGE CAFE
Community Approach to Hoarding
24th October 2024
Assembly Rooms, George Street, Edinburgh
Opportunity
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to participate in the Knowledge Cafe bringing together multi-agency professionals to identify solutions for problematic hoarding.
Practice
Participants are expected to have working knowledge and experience of working with people who have lived experience of hoarding behaviours.
Collaboration
Addressing health and safety issues related to hoarding behaviour is challenging and not a job that can be done by a single person or even a single organisation.
Keynote Sessions
Morning
FACILITATED DISCUSSIONS
Addressing health and safety issues related to hoarding behaviour is challenging and not a job that can be done by a single person or even a single organisation. Everyone needs help to be successful with a hoarding situation. But what does success mean? How can you ensure safety and maintain the person’s housing even if they really just want to be left alone? What are some ways you can work with other service providers in the community on these complex problems?
Attendance at the Knowledge Cafe provides a golden opportunity for you to join other professionals who work with hoarding in a uniquely facilitated discussion. We aim to generate ideas for collaborative responses by engaging both people who work in housing, third sector support, health and social care ("carrots") and fire and safety, environmental and public health services ("sticks"). Sharing our collective intelligence will inform multi-agency solutions for hoarding.
Afternoon
HEATH© UK LAUNCH
The Home Environment Assessment Tool for Hoarding (HEATH©) was created by the Centre for Collaborative Research on Hoarding at The University of British Columbia (UBC) to assess the most important health and safety risks in hoarded environments (Woody, S. & Bratiotis, C., 2024). Risk assessment in hoarded homes is not easy. Different service providers often have different priorities when working in the home, as well as different understandings of what risk means. With this in mind, the UBC Centre collaborated with community partners such as fire inspectors, social workers, and housing providers to create the HEATH. This universal tool is designed for professionals in any discipline or area of community practice working with hoarding. The HEATH will enable service providers from diverse disciplines to communicate more effectively and plan hoarding interventions based on shared priorities.
Meet the event facilitators… and host.
Dr Christiana Bratiotis has conducted pioneering research into multi-disciplinary community hoarding task forces, highlighted in her first book titled, “The Hoarding Handbook: A Guide for Human Service Professionals” (Oxford University Press). She is the leading global authority on implementing community-based interventions for hoarding and hoarding behaviour. Dr Bratiotis is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at The University of British Columbia.
Dr Sheila Woody is Director of the Centre for Collaborative Research on Hoarding, which partners with frontline professionals and community leaders to conduct research on community-based interventions for hoarding. She has led projects on such topics as how fire departments can work with health professionals to address hoarding-related safety risks and the prevalence of hoarding in low-income and supportive housing settings. Dr Woody is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at The University of British Columbia.
Linda Fay is the founder of Life-Pod CIC and Hoarding Academy. She is a specialist hoarding practitioner, trainer and author of ‘A Pragmatic Approach to Chronic Disorganisation and Hoarding - using the DESIRE method’. She is UK’s first practitioner to receive Chronic Disorganization Specialist and Hoarding Specialist Certificates (2015) from the Institute for Challenging Disorganization. Linda is currently undertaking an MSc in Behaviour Change at Aberystwyth University.
JOIN US
Attendance at the Knowledge Cafe provides a golden opportunity for you to join related professionals who work with hoarding in a uniquely facilitated discussion. We aim to generate ideas for collaborative responses by engaging people who work in housing, third sector support, health and social care ("carrots"), and fire and safety, environmental and public health services ("sticks"). Sharing our collective intelligence will inform multi-agency solutions for hoarding behaviours.
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Participants are expected to have a working knowledge of hoarding disorder and the associated problems, risks and issues.
Please only register to attend this event if your professional role requires your involvement in the provision of help, support or interventions for people with lived experience of hoarding, and you can contribute to discussions about creating a community response.
