New York is soliciting grant applications for a $15 million program designed to help residents of the state cope with “ collective trauma ,” including the purported pain brought on by the “structural inequalities and disparities” experienced by people of color and immigrants, state documents show.

The program, titled “Promoting Wellness and Healing in Communities,” tasks applicants with proposing ways to “reduce the impact of trauma on members of a community” by “implementing or expanding innovative community/grass-roots strategies that support promotion of community well-being, resilience, and healing.” New York’s state Office of Mental Health asserted that migrants, people of color, and refugees can experience collective trauma because “trauma histories can be built into cultural nor

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