The Jed Foundation

Laurie Davidson, MA manages campus programs at the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) at Education Development Center, Inc. She has worked for more than a decade to help campus administrators and staff across the country develop and implement effective health promotion and prevention programs. In her present role at SPRC, she manages the consultation and support being given to 50 campuses receiving suicide prevention grants from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She has presented at state and national conferences and in webinars on a variety of topics, including the public health approach to campus health problem prevention, best practices in suicide prevention, and principles for sustaining prevention programs.

Before joining SPRC in 2005, Laurie directed the Campus Alcohol Prevention and Intervention project, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, aimed at organizing statewide approaches to alcohol, other drug, and violence prevention in higher education. She also served as an associate director of the U.S. Department of Education’s Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention and an associate director of the Center for College Health and Safety.

Before joining EDC, Ms. Davidson served a variety of organizations in the business, higher education, and nonprofit sectors. She has an MA in counseling and worked for eight years as a clinician in community mental health centers.