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Scott Poland, Ed.D.

Phone: (954) 262-5881
Email: spoland@nova.edu

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Center for Child Welfare SI broadcast will be available next month

NSU News Release:
Nova Southeastern University Awarded Suicide and Violence Prevention Grant

 

Dr. Scott Poland is a nationally recognized expert on school crisis, youth violence, suicide intervention, self injury, school safety, threat assessment, parenting and the delivery of psychological services in schools.  He has lectured and written extensively on these subjects, appeared on all major television network news programs, and has presented over 1,000 workshops in every state and numerous foreign countries. He served on the President’s Roundtable on Youth Violence and has testified about the needs of children before the U. S. Congress on four occasions Dr. Poland is a founding member of the National Emergency Assistance Team for the National Association of School Psychologists and serves as the Prevention Director for the American Association of Suicidology.  He has led multiple national crisis teams following numerous school shootings and suicides and has assisted schools and communities after terrorism acts in New York , Washington , D.C. and Oklahoma . He has also worked in the aftermath of hurricanes in Texas , Louisiana and Florida . He has also been an expert witness in numerous legal cases.  Dr. Poland is a Past President of the National Association of School Psychologists and was the Director of Psychological Services (1982-2005) for a large Texas school district that received numerous state and national awards for its exemplary psychological services. Dr. Poland developed and ran one of the nation’s largest adventure based counseling programs (ROPES) as over 100,000 students and staff participated. He has received many individual honors including being named a finalist for the national school psychologist of the year, named the most outstanding school psychologist in Texas twice and named most outstanding psychologist in Texas . He also received the Houston Wage Peace Award. 


Dr. Poland discussing his interests





Dr. Poland Speaks at a Congressional Hearing on School Safety

CPS Professor Presents on Self Injury

Scott Poland, Ed.D. associate professor in the Center for Psychological Studies, recently presented on self injury via satellite from Tallahassee. The broadcast was seen at 364 locations in the United States and Canada and had more than 4,800 registered participants. The two-hour presentation will soon be posted on the Center for Child Welfare website at the University of South Florida.

The presentation on June 30 was organized by Poland and was titled "Self Injury: Insight and Testimony." It featured two young women, Lori Pede and Emily Rose, who previously received an award from the National Mental Health Association for their willingness to talk about their struggle with self injury.

The Florida Department of Health's Distance Learning Satellite Network, the Office of Performance improvement and Children's Medical Services (CMS), Division of Prevention & Intervention in collaboration with DOH/Office of Injury Prevention, Florida Department of Children and Families, and Florida Office of Drug Control/Statewide Office of Suicide served as sponsors.

Dr. Poland


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