Suicide: Before, During and After
presented by Dr. Scott Poland, Safe and Sound Schools
Register on 48 Carats to reserve your seat for this eye opening presentation. http://48carats.caiu.org/
This session, presented by Dr. Scott Poland, internationally renowned author, licensed psychologist and expert on youth suicide and school crisis, will help administrators, teachers and school support personnel increase their understanding of the incidence and most common factors in youth suicide. Participants will learn effective strategies to prevent youth suicide and lessons from the aftermath of numerous suicides.
Participants will be able to:
- Identify protective factors and primary prevention programs to prevent youth suicide.
- Identify key myths about suicide.
- Learn how to develop a comprehensive best practices model for suicide prevention, intervention and postvention in the schools that includes depression screening.
- Learn what constitutes a comprehensive suicide assessment and the importance of parent notification and collaboration with community services.
- Learn the importance of follow up once a student is determined to be suicidal and the importance of a re-entry program if the student has been hospitalized.
- Understand the relationship between self-injury and suicide.
- Learn best practices in suicide postvention.
- Learn the lessons from a number of legal cases where schools were sued following a youth suicide.
- Understand the complex relationship between bullying and suicide.
Suicide Prevention, Intervention and Postvention in Schools (title on 48 carats)
- Register no later than September 18, 2018
- Cost is $30 per participant for lunch & materials
- It is recommended that participants preview The Montana Crisis Action School Toolkit on Suicide (CAST-S) prior to attending. Link is provided below.
Friday, Sep 28, 2018, 08:30 AM
CAIU #15 (Susquehanna Room)
AGENDA
8:00 am - Registration8:30 am - Presentation by Dr. Scott Poland
12:00 Noon - Lunch (provided)
1:00 pm - Collaboration and discussion among attendees with Dr. Poland
Biography
Scott is a licensed psychologist and an internationally recognized expert on youth suicide and school crisis. He has authored or co-authored five books and many chapters on school crisis and suicide. His fifth book with Erbacher & Singer entitled, Suicide in schools was published in 2015 by Routledge and is available at www.routledge.com
He also recently co-authored the Suicide Safe Schools Plan for the state of Texas 2015 and the Crisis Action School Toolkit-Suicide (CAST-S, 2017) for the state of Montana. The CAST-S is available on line at the following web address and it is recommended that participants in the workshop review it at http://www.bigskyaacap.org/cast-s.html