Peninsula Community Services, Inc., a non-profit organization, has provided a variety of direct and supportive services for residents of San Mateo County since 1978. We became interested in hoarding because of our years of experience working with community agencies and with the clean-up and disposal problems of persons at the end stage of their severe hoarding difficulties.  

In March of 2000, PCS supported a 2 day professional symposium called “The Pack Rat and the Neighborhood Trash House -- Understanding Extreme Hoarding Behavior and Implications for Communities”.  It was very well received by the many professionals and interested public from the Bay Area who attended.

PCS is currently working to identify and promote Bay Area resources available to those with this problem and those interested in the field of "Extreme Hoarding Disorder". To this end, PCS has created and will maintain its web site www.hoarders.org where we will post any relevant information that is given to us and that we have encountered that should be of interest. 

At this time PCS is not providing direct services. We have no employees and our work is done on a volunteer basis.

                                                                         To Contact Us:

Call Linda Merrifield 650 343-4380 or email at lmerrifield@comcast.net.

Our Board Members are: Alan Merrifield, President, Linda Merrifield, Sec./Treasurer, Martha Legallet, Marjorie Chahal, & Pamela Martin. Our new Board Members are Kim Bullock M.D.  Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and Tamara Hartl, Ph.D. Stanford University School of Medicine VA Palo Alto Health Care System, and Mary Legallet.