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Florida Suicide Prevention Days at the Capital
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Suicide Prevention Symposiums
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Transforming Communities and Lives
Sept. 30 - Oct. 1, 2008
Caribe Royal All-Suites Resort
Orlando, Florida
Building Resiliency and
Promoting Mental Wellness
Dec. 5 - 6, 2006
Hilton Clearwater Beach Resort
Clearwater, Florida
Training Library
Self-Injury: Testimony, Insight, and Critical Issues
Presented by Scott Poland, Emily Rose, and Lori Pede, June 30, 2009
Purpose: To provide quality education and information to Departmental staff and contract providers regarding the incidence and factors in self injury and to understand the relationship between self-injury and suicide.
Dr. Scott Poland is a faculty member and crisis coordinator at NOVA Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He is a nationally recognized expert on school crisis, youth violence, suicide intervention, self injury, school safety, threat assessment, parenting and the delivery of psychological services in schools. Dr. Poland is a founding member of the National Emergency Assistance Team for the National Association of School Psychologists and serves as the Prevention Director for the American Association of Suicidology. He has led multiple national crisis teams following school shootings and suicides and has assisted schools and communities after terrorism acts in New York, Washington, D.C. and Oklahoma. He has also worked in the aftermath of hurricanes in Texas, Louisiana and Florida. Dr. Poland is a Past President of the National Association of School Psychologists and was the Director of Psychological Services (1982-2005) for a large Texas school district that has received numerous state and national awards for its exemplary psychological services.
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Creating Competent School Communities for Suicide Prevention
Presented by Maureen Underwood, May 28, 2009
A practical model for school-based youth suicide prevention envisions schools as competent and compassionate communities where all members are concerned about each others welfare. These school communities know how and where to get help when members are in need. This webinar will review both a conceptual format for identifying the needs of youth suicide prevention in the competent school community as well as outline resources for meeting those needs. Content will address the benefits of suicide-awareness training for the entire school community, review relevant information about risk factors, warning signs, and protective buffers, and outline the educator’s role in identifying suicide risk in students and making appropriate referrals.
Presented by Maureen Underwood, this webinar is based on both the content and evaluation data from the best practice online educator training offered by the Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide. It will also highlight aspects of the LIFELINES School-based Suicide Prevention Program, which Underwood coauthored with John Kalafat, PH.D, and the Maine Youth Suicide Prevention Program.
MAUREEN UNDERWOOD is a licensed clinical social worker and certified group psychotherapist with over 30 years of experience in mental health and crisis intervention. She is the former coordinator of the New Jersey Adolescent Suicide Prevention Project and the current clinical director of the Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide (www.sptsnj.org), With a practice specialty in grief, trauma and crisis resolution for children and families, she has developed numerous programs and published extensively on these and other related topics. She is also the co-author of “Managing Sudden Violent Loss in the Schools” and “Beyond 9/11: Helping School Staff Prepare for the 9/11 Anniversary”.
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School Crisis Prevention and Intervention
Presented by Richard Lieberman, May 14, 2009
The recent anniversaries of the tragedies at Columbine High School and Virginia Tech University have once again brought a national focus on crisis prevention and intervention in the schools. This webinar will provide an overview of the research and the evidenced based strategies that guided the development of the PREPaRE Model of School Crisis Prevention and Intervention from the National Association of School Psychologists. Implications for school crisis prevention, preparedness, response and recovery will be addressed to include appropriate/inappropriate interventions for students, dangerous trends/ adult behavior, suicide and school safety, co-morbidity, increase in suicide attempts in girls, choking games and what can be done to address these issues.
RICHARD LIEBERMAN MA, LEP, NCSP currently coordinates the Suicide Prevention Unit for Los Angeles Unified School District. He is a lecturer in the Graduate School of Education at Loyola Marymount University. Mr. Lieberman is co-author of School Crisis Prevention and Intervention: the PREPaRE Model and numerous book chapters and articles on youth suicide prevention, crisis intervention and responding to self injurious students in the schools. He serves on national crisis teams, sent on behalf of the US Department of Education and National Association of School Psychologists, to assist many communities in the aftermath of youth suicide clusters and school violence.
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