Suicide and Bullycide: Insights, Prevention and Intervention
Save This Date: Thursday, March 1, 2012
Numerous high profile cases of tragic suicides of students have highlighted the need for bullying prevention and suicide prevention in schools. A new term bullycide has developed and a number of parents have sued school systems charging that their child died by suicide as a result of bullying at school. Dr. Poland has represented schools in lawsuits charging that schools acted with malice or deliberate indifference to the bullying. These tragic cases highlight the need for effective and best practices bullying prevention and suicide prevention programs in schools.
Students who do not feel safe cannot learn at an optimal level, and students themselves hold the key to increasing school safety and reducing bullying. Practical strategies to reduce bullying and increase safety and build better connections between students and their school will be shared in this presentation. Specifics will also be provided as to how staff can best support the student being victimized and provide consequences for the bully. A comprehensive program for suicide intervention in schools will also be outlined that includes prevention, intervention and postvention best practices.
Location: Educational Service Center of Cuyahoga County
5700 West Canal Road, Building B
Valley View, OH 44125
- 8:30 A.M.: Registration and Breakfast snack and beverages
- 9:00 A.M. - 3:30 P.M.: Seminar
- 12:00 P.M. - 1:30 P.M.: Lunch on your own
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Speaker: Scott Poland, EdD
Dr. Scott Poland is aninternationally recognized expert on school crisis, suicide
prevention, and school safety. He has lectured widely, written extensively on these subjects,
appeared on all major network news programs such as CNN, CBS, ABC, and NBC, and has been quoted in papers throughout the world including The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, in countless professional publications and locally in The Plain Dealer. He has testified before Congress, consulted at the White House, and is often a member of school legal teams in litigation associated with suicide, bullycide and other forms of school violence.
He has appeared on Anderson Cooper’s 360, Paula Zahn Now, 20/20, The Today Show, Good Morning America, and many other well-known news and commentary programs. His presentations are immensely helpful to schools trying to both prevent tragedy and to manage the crisis once it occurs. As a PSI Expert Partner, international speaker and university professor at Nova Southeastern University, Dr. Poland consults with many of the schools we serve helping them build effective crisis management teams. He has also trained PSI’s own Crisis Intervention Team which is available to our schools in times of need.