The Trauma-Responsive Congregations initiative is expanding the project to include 30 new congregations from multiple denominations located in the northeast United States in five new learning cohorts, between January 2026 and May 2028.

These cohorts will focus on shared contexts, such as multicultural churches, Black churches, immigrant churches, congregations ministering to LGBTQ+ members who have been affected by religious trauma, and congregations in communities facing significant numbers of individuals and families experience homelessness.

Each cohort of clergy and lay leaders will take part in in a program that includes an educational series, an in-person retreat, and group mentoring. Participating congregations will also develop concrete action plans tailored to their missions and aimed at addressing the trauma affecting their communities.