No office worker or cop leaves their personal emotional problems when they leave home in the morning, making the daylong Mental Health First Aid course, managed by the National Council, imperative in professional settings.

More than a million Americans have taken the first-aid-for-the-mind course to manage their own, or their co-workers’ and family’s emotional crises and get them into treatment.

We sent reporters back to school to learn how people ranging from office workers to prisoners to police are applying the teachings in their daily lives and reporting on their findings.

Coverage included: Bloomberg, CNN, WRC-TV, The Washington Post, The Hill