Come Join Us For The OCD SoCal Open House Mixer – June 14th, 2014

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On Saturday, June 14, 2014, The Gateway Institute is hosting an Open House Mixer for the Southern California Affiliate of the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF) from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. in our newly expanded offices in Costa Mesa, California. Please join us for this exciting event!

Jim Sterner, Director of Gateway Institute and President of the Southern California Affiliate of the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF) is committed to the mission of increasing awareness and understanding of OCD throughout Southern California by sponsoring this event and other educational programs offering support and a sense of community with other OCD sufferers and their families.

We are pleased to welcome to our mixer, guest speaker, Sarosh J. Motivala, Ph.D., Director of Training for UCLA’s OCD Treatment Program. Dr. Motivala will address details of Exposure Therapy and its importance in the treatment protocol of managing OCD. In addition, Chris Trondsen, distinguished speaker on OCD, will join us to share his personal journey and miraculous recovery from OCD. We will also hear from Chris’ mother as she shares her first-hand account from a family member’s perspective.

We encourage you to attend with friends and family who are interested in learning more about OCD, the IOCDF Southern California Affiliate and the International OCD Foundation conference in Los Angeles July 16-18, 2014. You will also have the opportunity to meet others with OCD and their families, as well as local doctors and therapists.

Light snacks and beverages will be served. Please RSVP by June 10th to ocdsocal@gmail.com.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Upcoming talk May 7th: Understanding Treatment Options in OCD

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Dr. Sarosh Motivala, Director of Training at the UCLA OCD Intensive Treatment Program,  will present an overview of OCD and its treatment as part of NAMI’s lecture series. The presentation will from 7-8:30 pm at the Westside Mental Health Center.  Contact NAMI at 310-889-7200 or email them at info@namila.org for more info.

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We Need You!

We are looking forward to continuing to build the SoCal team so that we can offer more local programs and be the best resource possible for Southern California. If you’d like be a part of this growing team and you live in any of the six SoCal counties (Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, San Bernardino, Riverside or Imperial counties), please contact us at ocdsocal@gmail.com.  Opportunities to get involved will include facilitating schools outreach programs (including hoarding assistance training for community service credits for High Schoolers), facilitating media outreach, helping with fund raising and event planning, writing for the online newsletter, coordinating support groups and membership drives.

Participate in the 2014 OCD Awareness walk in Sacramento
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If you happen to be in the Sacramento area on Saturday May 10, or you know people interested in our cause, check out the OCD awareness walk in Sacramento. It will be the first walkathon held on the west coast to bring attention to OCD.  The first ever walkathon was held in Boston last year and was a rousing success. You can get more info on the walk at the OCD Sacramento Affiliate’s  Walkathon Facebook page.