OCD Louisiana

Recognize OCD. Expand Access. Change Lives Across Louisiana.

OCD is one of the most misunderstood mental health conditions. It is not simply a "quirk," and the phrase "a little bit OCD" minimizes a painful reality. In truth, OCD is a serious and debilitating psychiatric disorder.

As a result of this widespread stigma and lack of awareness, individuals and families across Louisiana are struggling while the condition goes unrecognized.

Effective treatment exists — but only if OCD is accurately identified.

Last year, the International OCD Foundation released America’s OCD Care Crisis. Here's what they found:

OCD affects 1 in 33 Americans.
Yet up to 75% may never receive an accurate diagnosis.

Even fewer receive evidence-based treatment like Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP).

The crisis is not that treatment does not exist.
The crisis is that most people never reach it.

As a small nonprofit, we have proudly run a high-quality treatment camp program. But it was limited in the number of families it could reach.

This new data made our next step clear: Before expanding treatment, we must expand recognition.

Awareness first.
Identification first.
Community reach first.

This year, we are shifting to build statewide infrastructure that:

• Increases accurate OCD awareness
• Equips schools and communities to recognize symptoms
• Strengthens referral pathways to trained clinicians
• Transforms our program into scalable modules
• Sustains free clinician consultation with experts in the field

Before people can access treatment, they must know what they’re seeing and experiencing.

Help us widen the circle — so more Louisianans reach effective, evidence-based care.