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December 10, 2015

Mental Health ‘First Aid’ helps first responders gain awareness

If you see someone in public who’s injured, what would you do? Call for help and render first aid, you say. Maybe help them get to a hospital. But what if that someone has no visible symptoms of an illness or an injury? What if it’s clear something is wrong, but you can’t see or detect a definite problem?

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