The purpose of this paper was to clarify the current situation of the Coordination between schools and external organizations regarding children’s mental health problems. We administered a questionnaire survey to all the 938 yogo teachers in Niigata Prefecture from September through November 2011 on Coordination with external organizations and obtained answers from 651 of them. We analyzed the current situations of “presence of Coordination” and “affiliates,” “people who were directly involved with external organizations,” “the details of Coordination,” “the advantages gained from Coordination” and the associations between their Coordination and the numbers of years and kinds of schools they had experienced as yogo teachers.
The result was that the percentage of yogo teachers who had coordinated with external organizations was 88.5%, which increased with an increase in the numbers of years and kinds of schools they had experienced as Yogo teachers. Also, medical institutions, child guidance centers, and education guidance centers accounted for the largest numbers of affiliates in descending order. “Coordination was helpful in giving instructions or advice to support children” accounted for the largest percentage of the advantages gained from their Coordination with external organizations. In addition, Yogo teachers accounted for the largest percentage of those who were directly involved with external organizations next to class teachers, and it turned out that yogo teachers played a major role in schools’ Coordination with external organizations.