What's New At The IOCDF

Watch last year's conference keynote speakers, Christopher and Elizabeth Trondsen, talk about their experiences in overcoming OCD as a family.

View this inspiring, 3 part video from their appearance at a University of Southern California Medical School event earlier this year and learn about how important families are in the treatment of OCD.

Watch the video here.


Jeff Bell on Here & Now today

OCDF National Spokesperson Jeff Bell will be on NPR's Here & Now with Robyn Young at 12pm EST discussing his new non-profit A2A (Adversity to Advocacy) and OCD.

Tune in to find out more!


The Conference Buzz Blog is back for 2012!

Join Christina Albano, our Conference & Social Media Intern, as she interviews the speakers and planners of the 19th Annual International OCD Foundation Conference in Chicago! This week, Christina interviewed Dr. Michael Jenike about the workshops he is speaking in at the Conference. We will be posting blogs on every Monday and Friday during the weeks leading up to the Conference in July, so keep an eye out for some exciting interviews in the coming weeks. Feel free to leave us some comments, too!

To read the Conference Buzz Blog, click here.


Win a trip to Boston during OCD Awareness Week!

As part of this year's OCD Awareness Week (October 8-14), the IOCDF will be once again be holding a contest for artistic expressions of OCD experiences. Participants have a chance to enter into one of four categories: painting/photography, personal story/poetry/fiction, short film/video/animation, and song/music. To find out more or to submit an entry, visit: http://ocfoundation.org/awarenessweek/.



Please contact Denise Egan Stack at

OCD of Massachusetts (OCDM)

North Belknap
115 Mill Street
Belmont, MA 02478
destack@partners.org

If you are interested in volunteering in the OCF office during the transition or at the 2010 conference, please contact Denise Egan Stack at destack@partners.org to be added to the volunteer list.


Volunteer

The OCD of Massachusetts (OCDM) is looking for volunteers to help run its activities. We do not have any paid staff, so no matter how much time or energy you have to spare, we can use your help. here are the activiites that we need help with:

  • Lecture Series
  • Web Site
  • Resource Center/Library
  • Securing Grants
  • Support Groups
  • Publicity for our events
  • Mailings
  • Social Gatherings

We are also looking for people to serve as officers or members of our board of directors. As a member fo our board, you would be helping to set the direction for our organization. Whatever your experience is with OCD - as a patient/comsumer, friend, family member, or professional - you have valuable input that we can use. Even if you cannot make the commitment to serve on our board, please consider showing up at any of our monthly board meetings.

If there is a project you are interested in that you do not see above, please let us know. We are always interested in new projects, as long as we have enough volunteers to work on them. Projects that we are interested in starting include fundraising; increasing the number of support groups; and education and outreach through the media. In the past, we have run conferences on OCD for teachers and other school personnel, and we are interested in having more of these conferences in the future.

To become a volunteer, please contact our president, Denise Egan Stack, at 617.872.0935 or destack@partners.org.

International OCD Foundation - Massachusetts