The greatest untapped resources for improving our health and social well-being are the knowledge, energy, and firsthand wisdom of the individuals, families, and communities who have dealt with challenges in their everyday lives. Mental health professionals can learn how to leverage these relationships to enact broader, community-wide change, using practices that fall outside of traditional methods of mental health service delivery. This book presents insights from the authors' two decades of work with the citizen health care model, in which they have partnered with leaders from a wide range of communities on initiatives designed to improve health and remove social barriers. Readers will learn big-picture strategies for identifying and developing community-level initiatives, from disease prevention to broader cultural challenges, as well as common problems that arise when doing this work. The book includes in-depth discussions of successful, real-world programs cocreated by therapists and community members in areas such as diabetes education, antismoking campaigns, school success, political depolarization, and police interactions.