Open work

What needsdoing

None of this is assigned. It is a list of real gaps. Take one, take five, take none. Stop at any time without telling anybody.

Everything below is work that would matter if someone did it. Nobody is waiting on you and nobody will follow up. If you finish something, send it and it gets credited to you by name. If you don't, nothing happens, and that is fine too.

An hour or less

Print and carry

30 minutes

Print the one-page handout. Keep a stack in your car, your bag, your break room. Hand one to someone who needs it.

Post one thing

15 minutes

Take one finding from the research and put it in your own words on your own account. Your name, your framing, your audience.

Leave material somewhere

30 minutes

Family court lobby, library board, laundromat, shelter waiting room, community college. Where people are already sitting and waiting.

Send a correction

20 minutes

Find an error, a broken link, or a weak citation anywhere in the corpus and report it. Accuracy is the entire asset.

An afternoon

Watch a courtroom

2–4 hours

Dependency and family court calendars are largely public. Sit in. Take notes on process, not people. Patterns are the point.

Pull public records

2–3 hours

County-level removal numbers, POST training records, Title IV-E claim data. Public sources, primary documents, nothing else.

Read a curriculum, teach one person

3 hours

Work through the coercive control or TBI training brief and explain it to one person who needs it. That is the whole distribution model.

Translate something

3–5 hours

Spanish first, then anything else. A survivor-facing handout in a second language reaches people the English version never will.

Ongoing, if you want it

Start a node

Your pace

Two people in one place counts. There is a starter kit and a ninety-day track if you want structure, and no obligation if you don't.

Build the citation library

Recurring

Peer-reviewed sources on coercive control, strangulation and TBI, family court outcomes, IV-E financing. Full citations, never summaries of summaries.

Design and print

Recurring

Handouts, cards, signage, table displays. If you can lay out a page or run a cutter, this is a permanent gap.

Write

Recurring

Under your own byline. Analysis, plain-language explainers, or your own account of a system failure. Published with your name attached.

Legal and clinical review

Recurring

Attorneys, clinicians, social workers, evaluators — check the training material against what you know. Tell us where it is wrong.

Help shape the open call

Recurring

A recurring public call is being planned. Day, time, and format are all open. If you want a hand in deciding, say so now.

Send it when it's done

Or don't send anything and just do it. Both are legitimate. If you want it credited, attributed, or listed, use either of these.

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