Community-based mental health providers have voiced concern that their residential treatment colleagues keep children too long and fail to demonstrate the effectiveness of their services. Building Bridges calls for restructuring the relationships among residential mental health treatment and community-based providers, families, and youths. CFTs bring together the expertise of residential treatment and community-based providers and capitalize on the strengths of youth and families as part of a long-term recovery-oriented plan.Residential treatment programs and their community partners across the nation are improving their efforts to ensure that treatment is family driven and youth guided by implementing practices advocated by Building Bridges such as CFTs; hiring family and youth advocates; developing youth and family advisory councils; providing education and support to increase self-advocacy skills; integrating cultural and linguistic competence; and implementing trauma-informed care, thereby reducing the need for restraint and seclusion.Advocates and policymakers are recognizing that residential treatment is part of the service array and that coordination and collaboration are essential to improving outcomes.Below are some ways in which community and residential treatment providers can support the work of Building Bridges:> Establish relationships and dialogue across all constituent groups, including families, youths, community-based mental health providers, residential treatment providers, advocates, and policymakers.> Develop protocols and practices to make entry into residential treatment and the transition back to the community a seamless, supportive, and coordinated process.> Support youths and families during their time in residential treatment programs with participation in community-based mental health programs and support services, thereby facilitating timely and smooth transitions home.> Continue to implement trauma-informed, family driven, youth guided, culturally and linguistically competent and evidence-based practices.> Support the development of and become active members of child and family teams.> Convene meetings and dialogues among constituencies to promote conversations about Building Bridges.