Background

The Minnesota Hoarding Project (MHP) was established in late 2009, by Jennifer Sampson, a marriage and family therapist and doctoral student in the Family Social Science Department at the University of Minnesota, to study compulsive hoarding behavior and its influences on the family. In 2010, Jennifer joined forces with Janet Yeats, a marriage and family therapist and doctoral student specializing in grief and loss, to develop what the organization that is now known as The Hoarding Project.

In the THP’s most recent project, Jennifer and Janet worked to develop an educational-support group for family members of persons who hoard in order to help them learn about compulsive hoarding and manage feelings of frustration, grief, and loss associated with the hoarding behavior in the family.

If you are interested in participating in an ongoing support group for family members struggling with a loved one’s hoarding behavior, please click here to visit our Family Member Support Groups page.

For opportunities to participate in future research on hoarding and the family, please click here to visit our Research Participation page, or if you would like to be added to our mailing list to be notified about recruitment for future research studies, please click here.