The Pueblo of San Felipe is ideally positioned to expand it’s the capacity to serve school-aged Native American youth via partnerships with three local education agencies (LEAs), including: the San Felipe K-12 Community School, Bernalillo Public Schools (Bernalillo Middle School and Bernalillo High School), and the Santa Fe Indian School. Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education II (Native AWARE II) will focus on partnerships and collaboration between tribal, state and local systems to promote the healthy development of school-aged youth and prevent youth violence. The population of focus for Native AWARE are Native American (NA) youth in grades K-12 with mental illness and/or co-occurring substance use disorders. The purpose of Native AWARE II is to develop a sustainable infrastructure for school-based mental health services though collaborative partnerships. Based on a public health model, these partnerships will implement mental health related promotion, awareness, prevention, and intervention activities to ensure students have access and are connected to appropriate and effective behavioral health services. Native AWARE II will promote the healthy social and emotional development of school-aged youth and prevent youth violence in school settings. Thus, the goals of Native AWARE are to: (1) Increase awareness of mental health, substance use, and co-occurring issues among school-aged youth; (2) Increase the knowledge of individuals who interact with school-aged youth to understand and detect the signs and symptoms of mental health, substance use, and co-occurring disorders; (3) Promote resilience building and mental health well-being for all school-aged youth; (4) Create and sustain a school-based mental health system based on a three-tiered public health model; (5) Develop a referral pathway system that connects school-aged youth who may have behavioral health issues, including serious emotional disturbance (SED) or serious mental illness (SMI), and their families to services; and (6) Increase and improve access to culturally relevant, developmentally appropriate, and trauma informed school and community-based activities and services. These goals will be accomplished by implementing evidence based prevention and intervention programming in the three LEAs, including health promotion activities such as Teen and Youth Mental Health First Aid, QPR and Project Venture; Screening using the PHQ-9 and CRAFFT, and clinical intervention for youth at risk of mental illness, co-occurring substance abuse, trauma and school violence using Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) and Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency (ARC) which aims to reduce symptoms related to trauma and other mental health related issues, increase adaptive and social skills in youth, and reduce distress in caregivers. Native AWARE is expected to annually serve 700 Native American youth with Project Venture, 250 with behavioral health screens, and 75 with direct services, resulting in 1025 students served annually. Native AWARE will also provide Mental Health First Aid training to 200 school staff and caregivers and 200 students annually.