The linkage between the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-Community Health Associates and the MGH-Benson Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine began in order to address the concern of providing affordable, easily accessible, culturally appropriate behavioral medicine interventions for low income patients served by MGH Community Health Centers, as well as the desire to demonstrate the efficacy and economics of these interventions. Since depression was such a prevalent issue among health center patients, with a significant impact on health care service utilization, it was decided to focus on offering Mind/Body services to this population first.