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How to Respond Effectively to Troubled or Suicidal College Students:
Developing Community Approaches and Strategies

A 90-minute Web Seminar                                               
Tuesday, April 24, 2007         
1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT/11:00 a.m. MT/10:00 a.m. PT)                                           

Presenters:
Laurie Davidson, Suicide Prevention Resource Center, Education Development Center, Inc.

Michael McCarthy, Director of Safety and Security, St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY

Gary Pavela, author of the book, Questions and Answers on College Student Suicide: A Law and Policy Perspective (College Administration Publications, 2006).

About the program:
Campus administrators report that suicide attempts and ideation by students is increasing and the number of students coming to campus with mental health issues is on the rise. Suicide is one of the leading causes of death among college aged students.  What can campus public safety leaders and other campus executives do to respond effectively to troubled and suicidal students? This program will assist campus public safety leaders and other campus executives in developing community approaches and comprehensive policies to address student mental health issues, including suicidal students. The panel will discuss how to develop leadership collaboration and coordination to prevent, plan for, and respond to student mental health issues.   

You will learn:

  • An overview of risk management issues regarding students with mental health issues, including pertinent federal and state disability laws and requirements
  • Best practices in effective community approaches to address students with mental health issues
  • Appropriate roles for campus public safety leaders as part of a campus-wide collaborative approach to mental health and suicide prevention

Who should participate:

  • Campus public safety leaders and supervisors
  • Campus mental health counselors
  • College or university administrators

Meet the presenters:
Laurie Davidson coordinates the technical assistance that the Suicide Prevention Resource Center at Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), provides to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s campus suicide prevention grantees. She is also director of a project to disseminate resources and tools to assist campuses implementing the Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for college Students (BASICS). Davidson previously served as associate director of the Center for College Health and Safety at EDC, where she managed projects in the areas of alcohol and other drug prevention, violence prevention, and mental health promotion and suicide prevention. She also directs an effort to synthesize and disseminate best practices in campus mental health promotion, funded by the Ittleson Foundation.

Michael McCarthy has served as the director of safety and security at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY, since 1998. He is a retired police investigator from the Rochester Police Department. He also served 13 years on the Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT) and at the time of his retirement he was the SWAT Team Training Coordinator. McCarthy has instructed at the Police Academy and has also presented a variety of training programs to other area police and security organizations in anger management, conflict management, leadership, and ethics. In May of 2006, McCarthy presented a first responders program for emotionally disturbed persons to the European Association of Campus Safety in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Gary Pavela teaches in the honors program at the University of Maryland and writes law and policy newsletters to which more than 1,000 colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada subscribe. He was a law clerk to Judge Alfred P. Murrah of the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, a faculty member for the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, DC (the training arm of the US courts), and a staff attorney for the State University of New York, Central Administration. He has been a Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Center for Behavioral Sciences and Law, taught at Colgate University and serves on the Board of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. Identified by The New York Times as an “authority on academic ethics,” Pavela has served as a consultant on law and policy issues at many leading universities. He is the author of a book on college student suicide prevention.

Cost:
$149.00 per site-IACLEA member (reduced member rate)
$249.00 per site-nonmember

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Technical Requirements

Minimum Hardware Requirements

  • Intel Pentium II 200 MHz processor (or compatible).
  • 64 MB of RAM
  • 100 MB of free hard drive space
  • 800 x 600 video display with 16,000 colors (16 bit video)
  • Sound card and either speakers or headphones

Minimum Software Requirements

  • Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP (Mac and Linux not supported)
  • IE 5.0 or Higher (Netscape not Supported)
  • Windows Media Player 7.0 or Higher
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or later
  • Shockwave Player
  • Flash Player

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