Hoarding Unpacked

Hoarding Unpacked is a training, supervision, and consultancy platform to support frontline workers and organisations in their understanding, responses and efforts to address the complex and costly issue of Hoarding Behaviours. Hoarding Unpacked training draws its information from a mix of current industry standards, case examples & strategies that the facilitator has witnessed and used in her time working in the sector as a mental health specialist, direct in-home support worker sustaining tenancies, a supervisor for frontline workers, a hoarding support group facilitator, a hoarding consultant for government bodies, and as a trainer developer and facilitator in this specialty field since 2012 ‘Effective Approaches to Hoarding Behaviours’ The course was originally written as in-house training for a social housing company during a time the facilitator was employed as a Sustaining Tenancies Officer. Over professionals have attended this training. Training Aimed At: This training is aimed at a range of professions including but not limited to: housing and homelessness support workers, mental health, home care services, social workers, disability support, aged care, tenancy managers, cleaning services, council health and safety officers, fire safety services, child protection, animal rescue, and at times concerned family and friends have attended. Course Outline: Trauma informed approaches and considerations, working with complex and challenging behaviours, DSMV addition and definition, statistics and characteristics, different types of hoarding, OH & S issues, at risk tenancies, children safety concerns, RSPCA, neighbours and council issues, strategies and examples for case coordination with multiple service providers, practical strategies for service users and therapeutic tools, real case examples used throughout to draw information from, links to helpful resources and websites, promotion of workers self-care and a focus on a reduction of vicarious trauma impacts.