The Steering Committee is comprised of founding Building Bridges Initiative members and key partners including representatives from residential and community providers, families and youth. The group is charged with setting the overall direction for Building Bridges and developing priorities for the committee and workgroups. The Steering Committee also creates and implements strategies to maximize every opportunity to advance the values and principles of the Joint Resolution across America. The following people are members of the Building Bridges Steering Committee:

• Gary Blau, SAMHSA/CMHS
• Samantha Broderick
• Beth Caldwell, Caldwell Management Associates
• Julie Collins, Child Welfare League of America
• Sybil Goldman, Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development
• Jody Levison-Johnson, Louisiana Coordinated System of Care 
• Bob Lieberman, Southern Oregon Adolescent Study and Treatment Center and American Association of Children's Residential Centers
• Polina Makievsky, Alliance for Children and Families
• Joy Midman, National Association for Children's Behavioral Health
• Raquel Montes, Casa Pacifica
• Martin Rafferty, Youth M.O.V.E. Oregon
• Reyhan Reid, TA Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health/American Institutes for Research
• Linda Rosenberg, National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
• Sandra Spencer, National Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
• Beth Stroul, Management & Training Innovations, Inc.
• Rosa Warder, Behavioral Health Care Services