You've brought up two different things here. The first has to do with intergenerational trauma, and the second has to do with minority populations.
To speak to intergenerational trauma, one of the largest correlates with mental health challenges and the development of PTSD is that, rather than a person experiencing something stressful or traumatic and having it convert into PTSD, it has to do with a history of traumatic incidents in their lives. The more traumatic incidents you experience through your childhood and into adulthood, the more likely it is that you will develop PTSD. That rolls forward too. If we don't manage to address those concerns, they can then be passed forward as that person who is facing some mental health challenges passes a bit of that onto their kids.
My second point to that is that most of the people in the professions that I work with—first responders, frontline workers, veterans—do this because it's deeply meaningful to them. They see this as service. They have found a way to give back to society and make their lives make sense from a service perspective. Because of that, they feel like they have found a family, and a group that accepts them and is on the same mission they are on regarding this existential need to serve. When that falls apart, when the institution falls apart, they also lose their sense of purpose in life. That's damaged as well.
Both of these concerns of intergenerational trauma and a loss of direction and meaning in life can be addressed with preventative care if we get to these folks right away and keep this from going forward. I'm suggesting that our transition services aren't just affecting that 25% to 30% of people who have trouble with transitioning. This is preventing, perhaps, future generations from having these same challenges. We need to take that very seriously.