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Hairdressers, Bartenders and Other People Who Should Learn Mental Health First Aid

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson

Published March 17, 2016 at 2:07 PM CDT

If you want to be a babysitter these days, or a lifeguard, do child care or a home health aid, you have to know CPR.

Chad Scott looks forward to the day where mental health first aid is as common.

Scott is a mental health first aid instructor who's leading a training at UMD next month, and he says, in addition to mental health care professionals, anyone who has a job where they see a lot of people should consider taking the course.

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Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.

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