Symposium Summary: Collaboration Between Community Behavioral Health Providers and Schools

Leaders from state education, mental health, public health, and health care financing agencies joined community mental health providers, educators, advocates, and family members to address the importance of these partnerships; as well as sharing and expanding on strategies to strengthen the partnerships; and collaborating on next steps to build, expand, and sustain those partnerships.

The Massachusetts Association for Mental Health (MAMH), in collaboration with the Association for Behavioral Healthcare (ABH), hosted a full-day symposium, Collaboration Between Community Behavioral Health Providers and Schools: Strategies and Opportunities to Support Student Access to Behavioral Health Care, on November 21, 2024 in Framingham, Massachusetts. The meeting was supported by a generous grant from the Charles F. and Beatrice D. Adams Charitable Trust, with additional support from Mass General Brigham.