The growing gap between student need and system capacity. Every day, students walk into schools carrying anxiety, trauma, grief, stress, and emotional overwhelm that often go unseen. At the same time, educators, counselors, and school staff are being asked to respond to increasingly complex behavioral health needs within systems that were never designed to support them at this scale. This film explores how schools have become the frontline of behavioral health in America — and why fragmented, reactive approaches are no longer enough. Through the lens of infrastructure, coordination, and early intervention, this introduction to the Becoming U Behavioral Health System examines what becomes possible when schools move from isolated responses to connected systems of care.