This presentation will provide a brief overview and review of outcomes from the purposeful expansion of integrated care services with colocated collaborative care (i.e., the Veteran’s Health Administration version of Primary Care Behavioral Health) into specialty medicine settings. Core program content will involve focused discussion of anticipated and unanticipated barriers encountered to the planned expansion of integrated care, including how our implementation team planned for and responded to these challenges. The talk will conclude with a conversation about the variables that have maintained the energy and resilience needed to keep moving forward – slowing out of necessity, but without stopping.