Transforming access to children's mental health care by empowering the pediatric primary care providers through the NJ pediatric psychiatry collaborative care model. The program plays a crucial role in increasing the comfort and competence of pediatric primary care providers—both pediatricians and family physicians—by equipping them with tools, knowledge, and access to psychiatric consultation. They also help address the national shortage of child and adolescent psychiatrists by shifting certain aspects of mental health care into the hands of PCPs, supported by psychiatric specialists.