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Animal Hoarding:

We aren’t aware of any specialized resources in this area for animal hoarding right now, but below are good sources of information that may help lead you to find resources in your area:

 

Assessment & Measurement Tools:

 

Authority in the U.S. for Information about Hoarding Disorder:

 

 

Cleaning Companies-Hoarded Environments:

CADSC, Inc
Serving New England
877-366-8348

 


Crisis cleaning/hoarding related

•Want to break into the cleaning business of helping people who hoard?
•Hoarder Home Specialist Course

 

Doctors/Therapists/Counselors:

Paul Gervais, PhD
16 Julianne Lane
Augusta, ME 04330
Phone: (207).622.0713

Tom Hansen, PhD, LCSW
PO Box 5081
Ellsworth, ME 04605
Phone: (207) 664-0097

Francine Blattner, MD
222 St John Street Suite 118
Portland, ME 04102
Phone: (207) 761-5876
Fax: (207) 799-8156

Debra Bunce, Ph.D
Psychodiagnostic Services of Southern Maine
17 Bishop Street
Portland, ME 04103
Phone: (207) 595-0479

Lee Fitzgibbons, PhD
Anxiety Solutions of Northern New England, PLCC
104 Webbs Mills Road
Raymond, ME 04071
Phone: (207) 655-2737

Gordon Street, PhD
Anxiety Solutions of NNE, PLLC
PO Box 70
Raymond, ME 04071
Phone: (207)655.2737
Email: gpstreet@anxietysolutions.net

James Claiborn, PhD
6 D Street
South Portland, ME 04106
Phone: (207) 799-0408
Fax: (207)767.7002
Email: CBT4OCD@maine.rr.com

Thomas Moyer, PhD, ABPP
PO Box 2000
York, ME 03909
Phone: (207) 363-7142

 

 

Elders:
Image source-My Mother’s Garden Documentary

  • National Center on Elder Abuse: State Directory of Helplines, Hotlines, and Elder Abuse Prevention Resources-State reporting numbers, government agencies, state laws, state-specific data and statistics, and other resources.
  • The National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Inc. (NAELA) was founded in 1987 as a professional association of attorneys who are dedicated to improving the quality of legal services provided to people as they age and people with special needs.
  • National Association Senior Move Managers -Facilitates “the physical and emotional aspects of relocation for older adults, with a national referral network, for delivery of services with compassion and integrity.”

Elder & hoarding related info & news stories

 

Fire Departments Specially Trained for Hoarded Structures/Related:
Currently we don’t know of any specialized training in this area. Here’s what they are doing in Arizona though-hooray AZ!

Maricopa County firefighters practice battling fires in hoarder homes.
Watch the video.

Fire & safety hoarding related news stories

 

Hoarding Task Forces & Related Services:

We aren’t aware of any Hoarding Task Forces in this area at this time, but please check the two sites* above who may have more current listings than we do at the present time.

 


Professional Organizers:

New England Professional Organizers
http://www.napo-newengland.com/


Professional organizers can provide important help for clients who are getting mental health treatment for hoarding. Very few mental health providers make home visits and even those who do can usually only provide limited visits (for example, once per month). Working with a professional organizer can give clients critical hands-on help with their hoarded items. Ideally, the professional organizer would contact the therapist and work with them to help the client’s hoarding symptoms.

Some professional organizers have specialized training in working with hoarding or related problems, such as chronic disorganization (CD). This specialized Institute for Challenging Disorganization (ICD) provides information about CD and trains professionals to work effectively with this problem. However, CD is not the same as hoarding because a person may be chronically disorganized without having hoarding (for example, because of current depression or attention deficit disorder). In contrast, most people who hoard do have CD. The ICD provides contact information for professional organizers with different levels of expertise in working with CD (www.challengingdisorganization.org). The National Association of Professional Organizers provides contact information for the broader group of professional organizers and also provides training opportunities.

 


The ICD offers a variety of resources to help both people who are challenged by chronic disorganization and the professionals who work with them:

  • The Code of Ethics provides guidelines for professionals and also helps potential clients know what to expect of an ethical organizer
  • The Useful Links section provides links to outside organizations that offer information and assistance to chronically disorganized people
  • The ICD Clutter-Hoarding Scale is a free assessment tool to help professional organizers and related professionals evaluate the health and safety aspect of clutter/hoarding situations
  • The FAQs section provides answers to questions the public might have about chronic disorganization and the ICD
  • The ICD is involved in collaborative research projects relating to chronic disorganization. The Research Projects section describes that work.
  • Additional reading from the ICD

•Want to break into the organizing business & help hoarding clients?
•The Board of Certification for Professional Organizers (BCPO®) (certifying body whose charter is to increase the professionalism of the organizing industry)

Professional organizers

 

Support Groups, In-person-Family Members of Hoarders:
We aren’t aware of any at this time in this area


Support Groups, In-person-Hoarders:

Anxiety Solutions of Northern New England
PLLC 104 Webbs Mills Road
PO Box 70
Raymond, ME 04071-0070

(207) 655-2737

Quote:
“We offer a free Adult Anxiety Support Group that meets here in our waiting room at 7PM on the 2nd and 4th Thursday nights of each month (except only the 2nd Thursday night in November and December). Quite a few members have OCD, and several of them are struggling with hoarding, so the topic often comes up for discussion and other adults struggling with hoarding would be welcomed.” -Gordon P. Street, PhD



Manual for Facilitating a Support Group, IOCDF, if you’d like to start one in your area!

 


Treatment Centers/Clinics for Hoarders:
We aren’t aware of any at this time in this area


Additional Information/Resources:
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News Articles/Media:

2/8/12: Maine man dies trying to save his dogs from house fire

General hoarding related news articles in our archives/all areas, if you’d like to see how the reporting has changed (and readers comments) with all the recent awareness about Hoarding Disorder:

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Disclaimer re: all services/businesses/providers
The services, businesses, treatment providers and all others (as well as external links) listed do not mean a recommendation or endorsement by Children of Hoarders Inc. These listings are for sharing general knowledge on what is available only. All businesses and services should be carefully researched by consumers before entering in to any contract or any schedule of services what-so-ever. Children of Hoarders Inc. has no affiliation with any of the businesses or services listed, nor does it receive any commissions for services contracted by our site visitors. Children of Hoarders Inc. is not responsible for the business practices, services or fees, of anyone listed in these forums, or the content of any external links.

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