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Standard approaches to teaching the management of psychosocial issues in pediatrics?visits to community-based organizations and stand-alone block rotations in developmental?behavioral pediatrics and community pediatrics?neither expose residents to models of interdisciplinary collaboration between faculty preceptors and community providers nor take advantage of the efficacy of learning in continuity clinics. The authors describe their project, developed from an existing Community Pediatrics Training Initiative with long-standing relationships with a domestic violence shelter, a community center for Latino families, and a special needs resource organization for parents.