Ensure Your Campus Has a Suicide Postvention Plan
About This Episode
About This Episode
In this episode, Dr. Kurt Michael of The Jed Foundation discusses the importance of suicide postvention should a death occur on your campus.
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About This Episode
About This Episode
In this episode, Dr. Kurt Michael of The Jed Foundation discusses the importance of suicide postvention should a death occur on your campus.
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Featured Speakers
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Heather Salko, Esq.
Manager of Risk Research
Heather oversees the development of risk research publications. Her areas of expertise include employment law, Title IX, and student mental health. Before joining the Risk Research team, she practiced employment and insurance coverage law and handled UE liability claims for more than a decade.
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Dr. Kurt Michael
Senior Clinical Director, The Jed Foundation
Kurt brings to JED expertise in rural school mental health and adolescent suicidology. At JED, he has developed new initiatives to help schools and communities across the nation to better evaluate their suicide prevention systems, adopt flexible and effective postvention policies and procedures, and scale up the promotion of lethal means safety practices (e.g., safe storage of medications and firearms). Previously, he spent over two decades as part of the Psychology Faculty at Appalachian State University, establishing and sustaining a nationally recognized program of funded research and clinical practice in school mental health, adolescent suicidology, and rural healthcare. He retired as the Stanley R. Aeschleman Distinguished Professor of Psychology. Kurt earned a Master of Science and PhD in Clinical and School Psychology from Utah State University and completed his Resident Internship in Child Clinical Psychology at Duke University Medical Center. Kurt is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Rural Mental Health and the Editor of the inaugural Handbook of Rural School Mental Health, published by Springer in 2017. His most recent publication with colleagues on developing the school mental health workforce in rural K-12 districts is in the 3rd Edition of the Handbook of School Mental Health. In his free time, Kurt enjoys partaking in outdoor adventure sports with his family and their boxer, Mayer.