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title: What Is Child Welfare? A Guide for Behavioral and Mental Health Professionals
description: "**Summary:**Provides an overview of child welfare and describes how behavioral and mental health professionals and child welfare workers can support each other.   **Application: **As States, Tribes, and territories start to collaborate with mental health systems, this resource can serve as…"
url: "https://bridges4mentalhealth.org/hub/collaboration-between-systems-coordination-of-services/what-is-child-welfare-a-guide-for-behavioral-and-mental-health-professionals/"
updated: "2026-07-31"
category: Collaboration Between Systems and Coordination of Services
tags:
  - Audience
  - Child welfare professionals
  - Mental health professionals
  - TA sites
---

# What Is Child Welfare? A Guide for Behavioral and Mental Health Professionals

**Summary:**Provides an overview of child welfare and describes how behavioral and mental health professionals and child welfare workers can support each other.

 

**Application: **As States, Tribes, and territories start to collaborate with mental health systems, this resource can serve as a foundational tool from which to start conversations.

 

**Source: **Child Welfare Information Gateway

 

[Read More](https://www.childwelfare.gov/resources/what-child-welfare-guide-behavioral-and-mental-health-professionals/)

 

 

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