With Residents in Mind: Partnership-Driven Research for Supportive Housing Practices with Dr. Christiana Bratiotis, Dr. Sheila Woody & Jana Sasaki
When you have, what we call in hoarding — carrots and sticks in the room — so you have the enforcers and the supporters in the room — you’re able to really hear one another, exchange information, gain new perspectives, it makes the cooperative work than that much more important and easier to achieve.
Dr. Christiana Bratiotis
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About the Episode
This episode features Dr. Christiana Bratiotis, Dr. Sheila Woody, and Jana Sasaki. Dr. Christiana Brotiotis is Associate Professor in the UBC School of Social Work. Her research focuses on hoarding treatment and intervention, particularly in the contexts of affordable and community-based housing. Dr. Sheila Woody is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Director of the Centre for Collaborative Research on Hoarding. Her research interests are on hoarding disorder, with an emphasis on understanding its behaviours in order to improve treatments and interventions. Jana Sasaki is the Director of Operations for Vancouver Region at Lookout Housing and Health Society, Jana has significantly contributed to Lookout’s harm reduction approach to decluttering in housing through the creation of Assisting Reduction in Cluttering and Hoarding (also known as ARCH) team. Coming together, Jana and Drs. Bratiotis and Woody discuss their multidisciplinary collaboration and the development of the Home Environment Assessment Tool for Hoarding (HEATH). Their conversation highlights the importance of knowledge exchanges which advances the practice and scholarship on hoarding and decluttering.
Timestamps
01:45 – Get to Know: Dr. Christiana Bratiotis
01:52 – Get to Know: Jana Sasaki
02:09 – Get to Know: Dr. Sheila Woody
02:25 – Origins of the Collaboration with Lookout
08:34 – Knowledge Exchange Between Frontline Workers and Researchers
11:23 – Creating the ARCH Team at Lookout
13:58 – Fostering Change Through a Bidirectional Partnership
19:39 – Hoarding: Urgency, Housing Loss, and Human Dignity
21:26 – What is HEATH? The Home Environment Assessment Tool for Hoarding
27:38 – Securing Future Funding for the ARCH Team
Mentioned in this Episode
Partner: Centre for Collaborative Research on Hoarding
Partner: Lookout Housing and Health Society
Tool: The Home Environment Assessment Tool for Hoarding (HEATH)
Our Guests
Jana Sasaki is the Director of Operations in the Vancouver Region for Lookout Housing and Health Society, a non-profit organization providing various housing and health services to 22 municipalities in the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island. Jana has significantly contributed to the areas of overdose emergency prevention in housing, and the creation of the Assisting Reduction in Cluttering and Hoarding team at Lookout.
Dr. Christiana Bratiotis is an Associate Professor at the UBC School of Social Work. Her current research focuses on the treatment and intervention of hoarding, particularly in the contexts of affordable and community-based housing. Given her extensive career experiences working in and with the community, her work on community-based interventions to hoarding, like multidisciplinary community-based task forces, has been instrumental in advancing the scholarship and practice of hoarding treatments.
Dr. Sheila Woody is a Registered Psychologist, Professor in the Department of Psychology at UBC, and the Director for the Centre for Collaborative Research on Hoarding. Through her research, she focuses on understanding the behaviours of hoarding disorder in order to better develop more efficacious interventions. The Centre for Collaborative Research on Hoarding further extends into community-based solutions for hoarding.