Collaboration toolkit: California community colleges and California county behavioral and mental health departments

This toolkit resource identifies ways to build sustainable partnerships between community colleges and county behavioral and mental health departments in order to improve community college students’ access and linkages to mental health services across the continuum of care. It addresses how community college and county staff can find the most appropriate people in each other’s organizations with whom to build collaborations, provides tools and processes that will guide and facilitate building a successful, sustainable partnerships and describes best practices for addressing the unique circumstances for colleges and county behavioral and mental health departments.