Company Profile
International OCD Foundation (IOCDF)
Company Overview
The International OCD Foundation (IOCDF) is a donor-supported nonprofit organization. Founded in 1986 by a small group of individuals with OCD, the Foundation has grown into an international membership-based organization serving a broad community of individuals with OCD and related disorders, their family members and loved ones, and mental health professionals and researchers around the world. We have affiliates in 25 states and territories in the US, in addition to global partnerships with other OCD organizations and mental health non-profits around the world.
The mission of the IOCDF is to ensure that no one affected by OCD and related disorders suffers alone. Our community provides help, healing, and hope. Our vision is that everyone impacted by OCD and related disorders has immediate access to effective treatment and support. The IOCDF provides up-to-date education and resources, strengthens community engagement, delivers quality professional training, and advances groundbreaking research.
Company History
In 1986, a group of individuals with OCD began meeting together while enrolled in some of the first medication trials for OCD treatment. The principal investigator of one of the studies was Wayne Goodman, MD, then a junior faculty psychiatrist who started the OCD program at Yale University School of Medicine during his residency training. It was Dr. Goodman’s idea that some of the participants meet together during the clinical trials to discuss their experiences of having OCD, trying to access treatment, and coping with the isolation of not knowing anyone else with OCD. Virtually none of them had ever met another person with OCD prior to enrolling in the trial.
After realizing the importance of mutual support and community, the group established itself as the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation (OCF) and began to cast their net as wide as possible to see who else was suffering in silence. Boldly, they wrote to ABC’s 20/20 describing OCD and suggesting that the producers do a segment on it. In March of 1987, 20/20 ran a segment on OCD featuring a number of the OCF Founders. The small group of Founders was subsequently flooded with 20,000 inquiries in the days following the 20/20 segment. Now the Foundation had to determine what they could do to help. And so, the Foundation began to build their structure and sought the guidance of clinicians and researchers.
Benefits
401(k) matching
Flexible spending account
Professional development assistance