Advance Research
We support research that deepens scientific understanding of OCD and accelerates better diagnosis, treatment development, quality of life, and outcomes.
Foundation for OCD Research, Care, and Education
Building a stronger OCD ecosystem.
FORCE advances OCD research, expands access to evidence-based care, and transforms education so scientific progress reaches the people it was created to serve.
Research
Evidence-based care
Education
Lived experience
Our Mission
Close the gaps between science, treatment, and real life.
FORCE advances obsessive-compulsive disorder research, expands access to evidence-based care, and transforms education through science, lived experience, and collaboration—working to improve the lives of everyone affected by OCD.
Expand Access to Care
We are developing treatment access support so people facing financial, geographic, insurance, or provider barriers can reach clinicians who understand OCD.
Transform Education
We create and support accurate, accessible, science-backed, lived-experience-informed education for the public, clinicians, schools, and healthcare systems.
Why FORCE Exists
OCD is common, serious, treatable—and still profoundly misunderstood.
Millions live with OCD, yet too many spend years without an accurate diagnosis, without evidence-based treatment, and without the scientific progress that should be improving their lives.
- ✓Too many people are misdiagnosed, misdirected, or never referred for recommended OCD care.
- ✓Access to trained OCD clinicians remains limited by cost, geography, insurance, and provider shortages.
- ✓Research, care, education, and lived experience too often operate separately instead of strengthening one another.
10MAmericans may live with OCD.
1 in 6IOCDF findings suggest receive a diagnosis.
2%Are documented as receiving ERP, the gold-standard treatment.
This is the gap FORCE was built to address—not by choosing between research, care, and education, but by recognizing that each depends on the others.
How We Create Change
An integrated model for OCD progress.
Every initiative FORCE builds is designed to strengthen more than one part of the OCD ecosystem. New discoveries should improve treatment. Better education should lead to earlier recognition and referral. Better care should raise new research questions.
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Research support models
Funding and support for neuroscience, genetics, clinical trials, treatment development, implementation science, pediatric OCD, treatment resistance, access to care, and lived-experience-informed priorities.
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Treatment Access Program
A developing model designed around assessment and a structured course of OCD care, with funding used to subsidize or cover care for people who otherwise could not access it.
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Education and training
Public awareness, professional training, school and healthcare outreach, workshops, talks, media, and resources that improve OCD literacy across systems.
04
Community and field-building
Future summits and partnerships designed to bring researchers, clinicians, advocates, families, policymakers, trainees, and people with lived experience into the same room.
FORCE exists to shorten the distance between scientific discovery and people’s lives.
Our Values
The principles behind the work.
Everything we do is guided by the belief that science, care, education, and lived experience are strongest when they work together.
Science should serve people.
Research matters because it improves lives.
Care should be accessible.
Effective OCD treatment should not depend on privilege.
Lived experience is expertise.
People living with OCD bring essential knowledge.
Education changes outcomes.
Accurate education reduces stigma and improves recognition.
Collaboration accelerates progress.
Meaningful change happens when the field works together.
Our Vision
A future where OCD is recognized early, treated effectively, and studied seriously.
We envision a future where financial circumstances, geography, insurance status, stigma, or provider shortages do not determine whether someone receives competent treatment—and where fewer years are lost to delayed diagnosis, ineffective treatment, and misunderstanding.
What FORCE is building toward
- ✓Scientific discoveries moving more quickly into clinical care.
- ✓Researchers, clinicians, educators, advocates, policymakers, and people living with OCD working together instead of in parallel.
- ✓People living with OCD spending less time fighting the system—and more time living their lives.
Help build the future of OCD research, care, and education.
Your support helps FORCE fund science, expand access to evidence-based care, transform education, and connect the people and institutions working to improve the lives of those affected by OCD.
Your gift helps FORCE strengthen OCD research, expand access to evidence-based care, and transform education.
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