---
title: "Mental Health and Cross-System Collaboration"
description: "**Summary:**This collection of resources includes support and guidance for encouraging collaboration across multiple child welfare systems. The goal is to ensure the highest level of care that is most appropriate for the child in question.       **Application:**Child welfare…"
url: "https://bridges4mentalhealth.org/hub/collaboration-between-systems-coordination-of-services/mental-health-and-cross-system-collaboration/"
updated: "2026-07-31"
category: Collaboration Between Systems and Coordination of Services
tags:
  - Audience
  - Child welfare professionals
  - Mental health professionals
  - Webpage
---

# Mental Health and Cross-System Collaboration

**Summary:**This collection of resources includes support and guidance for encouraging collaboration across multiple child welfare systems. The goal is to ensure the highest level of care that is most appropriate for the child in question.    

 

**Application:**Child welfare professionals can use the included resources to better understand the individual needs of children with specific mental health conditions, as well as understanding factors that contribute to a child’s development such as individual socio-economic, cultural, and religious backgrounds.

 

**Source:** Child Welfare Information Gateway

 

[Read More](https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/systemwide/bhw/collaboration/mh/)

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