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The SPRC Discussion Series on Suicide Prevention

Identifying and Treating Students at Risk for Suicide: The AFSP College Screening Project

Ann Haas, Research Director, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP)
October 7, 2004

Ann Pollinger Haas, research director for AFSP, will be speaking on Identifying and Treating Students at Risk for Suicide: The AFSP College Screening Project at the next SPRC discussion series. The AFSP College Screening Project is an internet-based program designed to identify and refer for treatment students at risk for suicide. To date, the project has targeted students in five successive semesters at Emory University, in Atlanta, and is currently being pilot-tested at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). Project results, evaluation and implementation challenges, and lessons learned will be discussed.

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Speaker's Biography

Ann Haas photograph

Ann Pollinger Haas, Ph.D., a medical sociologist, is the Research Director of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and Professor of Health Services at Lehman College of The City University of New York. At AFSP, Dr. Haas directs the extramural research grants program, as well as the development, implementation, and evaluation of the College Screening Project, which uses an innovative, Internet-based approach to identify and encourage into treatment college students who are at risk of suicide. Dr. Haas has also worked closely with the College Film Project as the principal author of the film's Facilitator's Guide, and is Co-Principal Investigator for AFSP's Suicide Data Bank, a project that studies cases of patients who have died by suicide while receiving psychotherapeutic treatment. She was the lead author on the Youth Suicide chapter in the forthcoming book, Treatments that Work for Adolescents, and has written widely on suicide, post-traumatic stress disorder, women's health, and drug abuse.

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Participants

C. Mark Anderson, Director of Counseling & Testing, Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma, WA

Paula Arnold, Resources Coordinator, SPRC

Lidia Bernik, Program Coordinator, SPAN USA

Lori Bradshaw, Librarian, SPRC

Nancy Bruce Cook, Pre-Doctoral Intern, Student Counseling Center University of Washington, Tacoma

Laurie Davidson, Center for College Health and Safety, EDC

Sue Eastgard, Director, Washington Youth Suicide Prevention Program

Ellen Freedman, Senior Prevention Specialist, SPRC (Moderator)

Louisa Holmes, Prevention Specialist, SPRC

Bethany Koestner, Research Assistant, AFSP

Donn Marshall, Director & Chief Psychologist, Counseling, Health and Wellness Services University of Puget Sound Tacoma, WA

Patrice Melvin, Senior Prevention Specialist, SPRC

Jane Anne Miller, North Carolina

Michelle Moskos, University of Utah

Rebecca Odor, Director of Violence Prevention, Virginia Department of Health

Sue O'Halloran, Maine

Jason Padgett, Kentucky

Debbie Ruggles, Violence Prevention Specialist, Washington Department of Health

Lorraine Siggins, Chief Psychiatrist/Clinical Professor Yale University Health Services/Yale Medical School

Mort Silverman, Senior Advisor, SPRC

Gary Spielmann, Director of Project Management NYS Office of Mental Health

Oreoluwa Somolu, Technology Associate, SPRC

Ramya Sundararaman, Prevention Specialist Coordinator, SPRC

Carol S. Wood, Clinical Manager/Licensed Psychologist, Student Counseling Center University of Washington, Tacoma

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