The Albuquerque (New Mecixo) Public Schools established the Mental Health Project in August 1985 to provide an interdisciplinary team approach to deliver direct/indirect counseling services to selected special education students, families, and staff. Seventy-seven percent of the 88 students, ages 5-21, receiving services were either behaviorally disordered or communication disordered and exhibiting behavioral problems; others were learning or multiply disabled. Clinical services provided students and their families achieved slight to complete alleviation of the referring problem in 84 percent of the cases. Consultation services were considered helpful by 63.5 percent of the special education teachers, counselors, and administrators receiving them for such problems as feelings of failure, burnout, easing students' transition problems from elementary to middle or middle to high school, and providing advocacy for a child. Training activities provided to staff, teachers, and/or parents were considered helpful by the same percentage. Training sessions promoting positive interaction with handicapped children and their families covered such topics as grieving and loss, behavior disorders, and teacher burnout. An evaluation of the program indicated the need for administrators and teachers to receive more information about the program, improved communication between project and school-based staff, clearer criteria for admitting students into the program, and additional inservice training. (VW)