Project AWARE is a federal grant program designed to strengthen school-based mental health infrastructure and services. As the Vermont Project AWARE team has been working with local education agencies and designated mental health agencies across three sites, the team identified a central challenge: strengthening school-community mental health referral pathways. This profile highlights how Vermont Project AWARE and the Northeast Atlantic & Caribbean Hub of CMHIS partnered to bring added implementation structure and facilitation to a complex cross-system process.