Once the Diagnostic Center determines to engage with a community that has requested assistance, Diagnostic Center staff will contact the requestor to discuss the issue presented for diagnosis and to gather available local data. After initial analysis, the Diagnostic Center staff will work with experts in the community and within DOJ to develop hypotheses about what factors may be contributing to the problem and map those factors to proven, data-driven model programs and practices. The next step in the process is creating a response strategy and intervention plan through coordination with a multidisciplinary DOJ, state, and local response team. Finally, the local response team will implement the strategy with ongoing support from the Diagnostic Center. The Diagnostic Center will support the long-term collection of outcome data to assess the effectiveness of the implemented strategy.