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This bill, the Pursuing Equity in Mental Health Act, aims to address mental health issues for youth, particularly youth of color. Key provisions include: 1. Establishing an Integrated Health Care Demonstration Program to provide grants to Federally qualified health centers, rural health clinics, and behavioral health programs serving a high proportion of racial and ethnic minority groups to create interprofessional health care teams that provide behavioral health care. 2. Directing the National Institutes of Health to conduct a study on mental health disparities in racial and ethnic minority groups, including the impact of community violence, adverse childhood experiences, structural racism, and other psychological traumas. 3. Providing grants to develop and disseminate best practices and core competencies to address mental health disparities among racial and ethnic minority groups for training in social work, psychology, psychiatry, and other mental health professions. 4. Requiring the development and implementation of a national outreach and education strategy to promote behavioral and mental health and reduce stigma associated with mental health conditions and substance abuse among racial and ethnic minority groups. 5. Authorizing additional funding for the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to support clinical research and address racial and ethnic disparities in physical and mental health.

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