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When done right, first aid quickly identifies a problem and triages patients so the more urgent cases get treated first and followed up on. Now, with federal aid, that same strategy will apply\u00a0to the pressing problem of veterans\u2019\u00a0mental health.<\/p>\n

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A push for new funding \u2014 and the use of existing funds \u2014 may soon make more resources available to help identify vets who need help with depression or other mental illness through the National Council for Mental Wellbeing\u2019s \u201cMental Health First Aid training.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[195],"topic":[178],"news-type":[172],"class_list":["post-13997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-veterans","topic-mental-health","news-type-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nFirst-aid training for mental health could aid at-risk veterans<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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