Coordination of sustainable financing for evidence-based youth mental health treatments: protocol for development and evaluation of the fiscal mapping process

Table 1 Proposed steps of the fiscal mapping process, as adapted from intervention mapping

Step	Intervention mapping steps	Fiscal mapping process steps
1. Needs assessment	Identify determinants (barriers and facilitators) of implementation/sustainment	Identify resources needed for implementation/sustainment and determinants for those resources
2. Matrices	Specify program objectives and link those objectives to determinants	Specify funding objectives and link to determinants of needed resources for implementation/sustainment
3. Theory-based methods	Specify feasible, available implementation strategies matched to objectives	Specify feasible, available financing strategies matched to funding objectives
4. Intervention, adoption, and implementation^a	Select strategies that best address the determinants	Enact financing strategies that best address resources needed for implementation/sustainment
5. Evaluation plan	Monitor and evaluate progress	Monitor and evaluate financial viability

^aIntervention mapping has six steps [74, 75], but the “intervention program” and “adoption and implementation” steps are redundant and can be combined when the intervention is an implementation strategy [71, 73]

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