Presenters:  Maureen Underwood, LCSW has been a social worker in the field of suicide assessment and prevention for over 40 years. She has trained clinicians nationally on standards of care for risk assessment, served as an expert witness in malpractice claims against social workers related to standards of care, and co-chairs the NASW Taskforce for Standards of Care for Suicide Prevention. She has also written questions for the clinical part of the LCSW licensing exam.

Michelle Scott, PhD, MSW, Professor and Director of SRF Suicide Prevention Research and Training Project, School of Social Work, Monmouth University. She is the evaluator of the Columbia Suicide Screen used in the Columbia TeenScreen Project. She is also the Project Evaluator for New Jersey, New York, and Arkansas’ Garrett Lee Smith (GLS) Suicide Prevention State Initiatives and two campus GLS grants. She is a member of the State of New Jersey’s Child Fatality Near-Fatality Review, Suicide Subcommittee and co-chair of NASW Taskforce for Standards of Care for Suicide Prevention.

Presenter:  Jonathan B. Singer, PhD, LCSW, an internationally recognized expert in youth suicide and social work technology. He is Professor of Social Work at Loyola University Chicago, Past-President of the American Association of Suicidology, author of over 100 publications, co-lead of the Social Work Grand Challenge “Harness Technology for Social Good,” and founder and host of the award-winning Social Work Podcast, for which he was named an NASW Social Work Pioneer in 2023. In 2024 he was named a Fellow of the Society for Social Work and Research, and in 2025 he was named Distinguished Alumni at the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work.

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