Smaller organization and it came about by a group of advocates and consumer advocates who identified hoarding and cluttering as a unique challenge to San Francisco in particular and this was wellbefore the tv shows and before it had a lot of notoriety and brought out in some circumstances and it was a group of folks, advocates in our office, to deal with these challenges and we need a place to come and meet and talk about it and give each other peer support. That is really a testament to the amazing advocacy of people who have worked on this, who have directly experienced challenges with hoarding over the years. So we ran a support group for many years. We still run it on a weekly basis, dropin, peer support group. And then we kind of branched into had a conference. So we have had the biggest conference on hoarding for the last 15 years, in the united states, and quite possibly the world. We just had it back in may. One of our specialtis that we see yourselves doing is really bringing
Clinicians and throughout the world, really acting as a hub of resources here in San Francisco. So i would say that as far as specific resources that are offered around hoarding and cluttering challenges San Francisco, we have, i think, through mha and our colleagues we have more to offer than other locations in the country. As an example, we have the conference that attracts around 400500 each year and a Weekly Support Group that anyone in San Francisco can come to, if they are identify as someone who has experienced challenges with hoarding and cluttering and i should back up, when they talk more about language and why that is so important, when we talk about Mental Health conditions. So well use the word hoarding and cluttering now, but there is quite a bit of thinking on our end and other National Leaders how to change that, because hoarding and cluttering is not the nicest term and loaded with stigma itself and we would like to look at a different way to phrase that and maybe its
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