In recent years trammg directors have found it increasingly important to include in the child psychiatry curriculum at least some formal experience in community mental health. Community mental health clinics, supported by federal and state legislation, have multiplied rapidly across the nation; and more and more graduating child psychiatrists are directly employed by such clinics or become involved in other ways in community work. As the community mental health approach has developed and as the first tentative outlines of a body of specialized concepts and skills have emerged, the need for the child psychiatrist in training to be exposed at least to some degree to this area of knowledge and practice has become evident. The methods by which such an exposure can best be accomplished have not been widely discussed in the literature. A notable exception is an early paper by Bernard (1964) which describes a training program and some of the roles that a community child psychiatrist may be called upon to fulfill. The present paper is a report of our efforts on the Children's Service of the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute to provide, during the past five years, a course in community child psychiatry, which offers career trainees a limited introduction to the concepts, methods, and problems of community mental health.