Sponsored By: South Shore Public Health Collaborative
March 25 - June 10, 2026
Click below to view and download session-by-session materials:
Book: Digging Out - Helping Your Loved One Manage Clutter, Hoarding & Compulsive Acquiring (Tomkins & Hartl, 2009)
Session #1 : Introduction & What is Compulsive Hoarding?
Session #2 : Harm Reduction
Handouts: Principles of Harm Reduction & Four A’s to Seeking Forgiveness
Session #3 : Setting the Stage for Harm Reduction
Video: Helping People Who Hoard: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading, and Threatening
Session #4 : Helping Them Accept Help
Handout: Challenging Situations Worksheet
Handout: Driving in Cars Exercise
Handout: Finding Affirmations Worksheet
Handout: Forming Good Questions
Handout: The L.E.A.P. Method - An Overview
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Session #5 : Assessing Harm Potential
Motivational Interviewing Handout
Session #6 : Creating a Harm Reduction Plan
Session #7 : Keeping the Harm Reduction Targets Clear
Session #8 : Managing the Bumps in the Road
Session #9 : All in the Family and Other Complications
Session #10 : When the Landlord Knocks and Other Terrors
Slides
Handout
Session #11 :
Slides
Handout
Session #12 : Harm Reduction Review and Wrap-Up
Slides
Handout
Revisiting the Goals of the Digging Out Group
Resource List
Hoarding Resources
Mass Housing Hoarding Resources
Practical steps, contacts, and support resources for people affected by hoarding. List downloadable PDF list is updated 2x per year.
Artifcts is a digital platform and app for preserving, documenting, and sharing meaningful objects (artifacts) from your life or family history. (Thank you, Anne, for sharing!)
Hoarding Assessment Tools
Videos
Hoarding & Harm Reduction (Center for Hoarding and Cluttering)
Events