It all began over a lunch meeting in November 2010. Dr. Vivian Nix-Early, COO of BuildaBridge, Danielle Dembrosky, Programs Administrator at that time of BuildaBridge and Julieane Ramic of Nationalities Service Center (NSC) discussed the possibility of providing BuildaBridge Classroom art classes to young refugees newly arrived in Philadelphia. NSC is a refugee and immigrant resettlement agency, serving almost 300 persons annually in Philadelphia. Having identified the idea to address the mental health needs of newly arrived refugees, NSC and BuildaBridge joined two other refugee resettlement agencies and two other family health agencies that had also identified this same idea at the same time. The idea to collaborate was born, leading all agencies to collectively write a grant proposal in January 2011 to the Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual DisAbility Services (DBH) for a project that would provide mental health resources to these communities....