The SOCAC’s work promotes the alignment of state agency and community partners to ensure that systems serving youth and families support the whole child along a continuum and spectrum of care from prevention to high intensity services. The SOCAC’s impartial forum, and its accentuation of youth and caregiver voice in planning and policy development and implementation, is essential for serving the mental health, health, and education needs of youth, to create the conditions for students to learn, teachers to teach, and families to thrive. This means developing strategies and policies that remove the burden on school staff to provide for the mental health and health needs of students and devote more time to: (1) creating cultures of care and connection, (2) implementing transformative SEL standards, WRAP programming, early literacy initiatives, and Student Success plans, (3) supporting regular attendance and (4) ensuring quality teaching and learning.