Table 4 Types of expertise across the decision set

Clinical expertise

Knowledge gained from collaborations with individuals who have expertise in medicine (e.g., physicians, psychiatrics, psychologists, community mental health providers, developers who have a clinical background)

• Reach

• Threshold

• Content of screening

• Resources to start-up and/or sustain screening, assessment, and/or treatment protocol

“So for rescreening, when we were discussing it we have kind of a steering committee that we’ve used. A variety of folks, some… partners and some folks from our field that we used to kind of pull together to help make some of these decisions.”—Child Welfare

Policy expertise

Knowledge gained from collaborations with individuals who have expertise in policy development

• Content of screening

• Resources to start-up and/or sustain screening, assessment, and/or treatment protocol

“Yeah, I think so. I think because there were a few people at the table who had and have policy backgrounds. So, there was certainly – one of the members of the team, I know, had been actively involved in an analyst involved in writing foster care policy.”—Child Welfare

System expertise

Knowledge gained from collaborations with individuals who have expertise in public sector systems including the child welfare, Medicaid, or mental health systems (e.g., caseworkers, other state child welfare offices, child welfare partners, mental health workforce)

• Reach

• Threshold

• Content of screening

• Resources to start-up and/or sustain screening, assessment, and/or treatment protocol

• Capacity of service delivery system to respond

“We really found no literature on that when it came to – I mean; I think because this is such a unique thing that we're doing in comparison to other states that we were really blazing our own path on that one. So, that was where a reliance in conversation with our child welfare partners was really the most critical place for those conversations.”—Other State Partners