This information packet is designed to aid schools in identifying financial sources that can be used to finance new intervention approaches that emphasize coordinated services. A four-part framework is offered as a guide to thinking about financing efforts to enhance programs and services to children: redeploying available funds, refinancing and freeing funds for reinvestment, raising new revenue, and restructuring financial systems to effect change. The packet includes the following information: (1) maximizing federal financing; (2) funds under the Improving America's School Act of 1994 designed to foster coordinated services; (3) selected references on financial strategies; (4) resource agencies and organizations; (5) financing children's mental health services; (6) Internet resources specializing in assistance related to financing school mental health services; (7) model programs for financing school mental health services; (8) state consultants for financing mental health in schools; (9) funding sources for school-based health programs in Baltimore, Maryland; (10) examples of federal resources for education, comprehensive services, health, social services, housing , and mental health; (11) steps to writing a proposal for a grant; and (12) using alternative reimbursement models for financing school-based health centers. (Individual articles contain references.) (CR)