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- +["<xml><dl class=\"decidim_awesome-custom_fields\" data-generator=\"decidim_awesome\" data-version=\"0.12.0\">\n<dt name=\"textarea-1756922998878-0\">Idea Submission for The People's Money:</dt>\n<dd id=\"textarea-1756922998878-0\" name=\"textarea\"><div>The Creative Care Lab is a 14-week wellness, media, and leadership program helping Black and Brown New Yorkers move from survival mode to stability. Based in Brooklyn, it blends mental health tools, business and life skills, media training, and cultural confidence to support people in building sustainable futures.\n\nParticipants learn how to regulate their nervous systems, set goals, grow professionally, and use storytelling to advocate for themselves and their communities. The program ends with Voices of the Vibes — a showcase where participants share their stories through short films and creative media.\n\nWe’ll partner with local hubs like BRIC, MNN, and Brooklyn Public Library to connect people to free tools, spaces, and opportunities they didn’t know existed. With the right support, we’ll grow this into a year-round offering that brings healing, visibility, and real opportunity to communities that have always had the talent — just not the tools.</div></dd>\n<dt name=\"textarea-1758648114412-0\">What is the problem your idea aims to address?</dt>\n<dd id=\"textarea-1758648114412-0\" name=\"textarea\"><div>Too many Black and Brown New Yorkers — especially in neighborhoods like Flatbush, Brownsville, East New York, and Bed-Stuy — are stuck in survival mode. Not because they lack talent, but because they’ve been denied access to wellness, mentorship, education, and creative or economic opportunity.\n\nMost don’t know that free media equipment, business tools, or creative workspaces even exist for them. Many have never been taught how to manage stress, advocate for themselves, or navigate New York’s creative and professional landscape. Meanwhile, toxic workplaces, financial insecurity, and the erasure of BIPOC voices continue to widen the opportunity gap.\n\nThe Creative Care Lab fills those gaps. It offers tools for nervous system regulation, goal-setting, business and media training, and identity-rooted storytelling — helping people heal, grow, and build the futures they deserve.</div></dd>\n<dt name=\"checkbox-group-1756922140917-0\">Which groups does your idea focus on? Select all that apply</dt>\n<dd id=\"checkbox-group-1756922140917-0\" name=\"checkbox-group\">\n<div alt=\"youth\">Youth (under 24)</div>\n<div alt=\"public-housing\">Public Housing Residents</div>\n<div alt=\"justice-impacted\">Justice Impacted People</div>\n<div alt=\"immigrants-migrants\">Immigrants / Migrants</div>\n<div alt=\"lgbtq-plus\">LGBTQIA+ People</div>\n<div alt=\"parents\">Parents</div>\n</dd>\n</dl></xml>"]
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