photoKings Highway neighbor Jerri Locke keeps mentioning this hoarding conference to me, and she’s never even been inside my house, so I assume it’s because she wants me to tell you guys about it and not because this is an intervention.

“Lighten up!” the 2013 Southwest Conference on Hoarding is from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, June 7, in the Hitt Auditorium at Methodist Hospital. The keynote speaker is Cory Chalmers form the TV show “Hoarders.”

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The conference is for professionals as well as people who are concerned with a relative or friend’s hoarding tendencies. Registration costs $25 and includes breakfast and lunch. Here is the schedule:

Registration and Continental Breakfast              8 am – 9 am
Welcome                                                                   9 am – 9:15 am
“Hoarding: A Simple  Look at a Complex            9:15 am – 10:45 am
Disorder” – Cory Chalmers (Key Note)

Break                                                                          10:45 am – 11 am
Continuation of Key Note                                      11am – 12:30 pm
Lunch                                                                        12:30 pm – 1:15 pm
“Hoarding and the DSM V”                                    1:15 pm – 2:15 pm
– Peggy McMahon, Ph.D.

“Hoarders in the Midst”                                           2:15 pm – 3:15 pm
– Jennifer Owens, Esq.

Break                                                                          3:15 pm – 3:30 pm
“Animal Hoarders”                                                   3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
– Colby Grady, CTPO

Wrap-up                                                                     4:30 pm – End