Expanding access to behavioral health services, substance use disorder services, and vital human services such as those for people with intellectual and/or developmental disorders is vital to providing high-quality, whole-person care to everyone in need. As an initiative to expand access to and improve care, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is in the process of evaluating and awarding new grants to support existing and new Certified Community Behavioral Health Centers (CCBHCs) across the nation. These new funding grants can be used for building or upgrading a CCBHC’s health IT infrastructure to support coordinated whole-person care. There are two models of care that a CCBHC can choose to integrate physical health services and behavioral health and human services: Either model can be made to work. There are, of course, opportunities and risks associated with each model that must be considered to be successful. The main benefit of the partnership model is that a contractual partnership limits clinical and financial risk for the CCBHC in providing primary care services. CCBHCs refer to these partners as Designated Collaborative Organizations or DCOs. Because most behavioral health (BH) executives come from a purely BH background, including both their education and their executive experience, they often lack experience in physical health services or primary care practice administration. Therefore, the DCO model can be considered ideal as it comes with the people who have the experience, leadership, and acumen to operationalize and build primary care practices.