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Michelle Scott, PhD, M.S.W. (She/Her/Hers)

Professor, Director SRF Suicide Prevention Research and Training Project
School of Social Work, Monmouth University
New Providence, New Jersey, United States

Michelle Scott, MSW, Ph.D. (School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley), is a Professor and Director of the SRF Suicide Prevention Research and Training Project in the School of Social Work at Monmouth University. Her research focuses on suicide prevention of youth and first responders including evaluations of school-based screening for suicide-risk, suicide prevention programs, crisis team training, the transportability of evidence-based treatment to social work practice, and improving best practice for suicide and malpractice prevention among social workers. She is co-author of the Lifelines Prevention 11th and 12th grade curriculum and Lifelines Intervention: Helping Students at Risk for Suicide, a whole school approach to suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention. Dr. Scott served on New Jersey's Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council (2010-2022) and the Child Fatality Review- Suicide Subcommittee. Currently, she is the program evaluator for New Jersey’s Garrett Lee Smith Suicide Prevention Initiative. She has also led GLS evaluation efforts for New York and Arkansas; and, has been the principal investigator for two Monmouth University GLS campus grants. Dr. Scott is co-chair of the NASW Standards of Care for Suicide Taskforce.

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