John Bateson

John Bateson was executive director of a nationally-certified crisis intervention and suicide prevention center in the San Francisco Bay Area for 16 years. He was also executive director of three university-run counseling centers, and deputy director of a multi-county social service agency. Bateson served on the steering committee of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (now known as 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline) and was appointed to a blue-ribbon committee that created the California Strategic Plan on Suicide Prevention. He is the author of Suicide (Johns Hopkins University Press), The Education of a Coroner (Scribner), The Last and Greatest Battle (Oxford University Press), The Final Leap (University of California Press), and Building Hope (Praeger Press).