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Pediatric patients often work with multiple health care providers for complex presenting concerns. This complexity has called for pediatric health care providers to strengthen interdisciplinary relationships with mental health providers to meet patient needs. Integrated behavioral health collaborative practice models, using the Interprofessional Education Collaborative competencies, provide the necessary scaffolding to train medical and mental health professionals. A multicultural framework can be integrated into the interprofessional education curricula to better equip health care professionals to provide culturally competent services that decenter hierarchy, power, privilege, and implicit bias, resulting in improved access and quality of comprehensive health care services.