Depression is a leading cause of morbidity with disparities in care. Depression collaborative care—a team-based approach supporting care management, patient activation, and evidence-based treatments—is effective relative to usual care but often unavailable in underresourced communities. Community Partners in Care (CPIC) randomized 95 programs in health care and community-based (eg, social services, faith-based) service sectors in 2 communities, into Resources for Services (RS) for individual program technical assistance vs Community Engagement and Planning (CEP) for multisector coalition support for depression collaborative care. For depressed clients, CEP relative to RS reduced having poor mental health-related quality of life (MHRQL) and behavioral health hospitalization over 6 to 12 months. Longer-term outcomes are unknown.
