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Criminal Justice

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What the Criminal Justice System Is; The Three Main Parts — Police, Courts, and Corrections; How a Case Moves, Step by Step; The People in the System and What Each One Does; Rights and Responsibilities at Every Step; When Something Goes Wrong — Complaints, Appeals, and Help

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Inside an Investigation — Evidence and Interviews; Pretrial in Detail — Bail, Motions, and Negotiation; Trial Day — Testimony and the Jury; Sentencing and Corrections in Detail; Records — Sealing, Expungement, and Background Checks

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Hard Cases — Conflicting Witnesses and Weak Evidence; When Cases Collapse — Dismissals and Suppression; Victim Advocacy in Depth; Juvenile Cases in the Adult Map; Combined Cases — Criminal, Civil, and Agency Tracks at Once

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach the Map — Leading a Community Court-Watch Session; Case-Study Portfolio Review; Building a Local Resource Binder for Victims and Families; Mentoring New Learners Through Year 1

Legal Systems

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What a Legal System Is; The Main Kinds of Law; Federal, State, and Local — Who Handles What; How Courts Are Organized; How a Matter Moves Through the System; Rights, Responsibilities, and Finding Help

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Filing a Civil Case — Forms, Fees, and Service; Family Court Documents in Detail; The Agency Appeal Ladder, Step by Step; Small Claims and Housing Sessions Up Close; Reading a Court Docket

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Conflicts of Law — When Two Systems Claim One Problem; Appeals in Depth — Standards and Records; Enforcement of Judgments and Orders; Hard Cases — Jurisdiction Disputes and Removed Cases

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Courthouse Navigator Project — A Plain-Language Guide for Your Community; Teaching the Sorting Questions; Case-Study Clinics With Real (Public) Dockets; Leadership — Helping a Neighbor Find the Right Door

Laws

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What a Law Is; Where Laws Come From; How a Bill Becomes a Law; How Laws Are Enforced and Interpreted; How to Find and Read a Law; Living With Laws — Rights, Duties, and Change

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Reading a Full Statute — Annotations and History; Regulations in Detail — Comment Periods and Final Rules; Local Government — Ordinances, Boards, and Town Meetings; Following a Real Bill Through One Session; Court Decisions — How to Read What Changed

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): When Laws Conflict — Preemption Fights; Constitutional Challenges Explained; Old Laws, New Facts — Interpretation Over Time; Comparative View — How Other States Solve the Same Problem

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Draft a Model Proposal and Testimony; Run a Community Comment-Period Workshop; Teach-Back — Presenting a Law to New Learners; Advocacy Portfolio in Minister Destiny's Spirit

Violations

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What "In Violation" Means; Levels of Criminal Offenses — Infractions, Misdemeanors, and Felonies; Civil Violations, Tickets, and Citations; Violations Outside Criminal Court — Housing, School, Work, and Court Orders; What Happens After a Violation — Process and Consequences; Responding Well — Rights, Deadlines, and Fixing the Problem

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Traffic Citations in Detail — Points, Hearings, and Insurance; Housing Violations Step by Step — Notices, Cures, and Housing Court; Contesting a Citation — Building Your Hearing File; Probation and Court-Order Conditions in Detail; License Violations and Agency Penalties

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Repeat and Aggravated Violations — How Levels Rise; Contempt in Depth; Collateral Consequences Clinic — Work, Housing, Immigration; Combined Violations — When One Incident Opens Four Files

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): The Clean-Slate Project — Auditing and Closing Your Own Old Matters; Teaching the Five Questions in Your Community; Designing a Fair Citation Explanation (Officer Portfolio); Case-Study Review — Violations Handled Well and Badly

Government

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What Government Is and Why It Exists; The Three Branches — Making, Carrying Out, and Interpreting Laws; Three Levels — Federal, State, and Local; What Agencies Do All Day; How Government Touches Daily Life; Your Part — Voting, Voice, and Oversight

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): How a Bill Becomes a Law, Step by Step; Budgets — Where the Money Is Decided; Elections and Voting in Practice; Public Records and Open Meetings in Practice; Working With Your Local Board and Town Meeting

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Hard Cases — When Branches Disagree; Federal and State Power in Conflict; Agency Hearings and Appeals, Case-Study Style; Charter, Ordinance, and Home-Rule Questions

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Run a Mock Town Meeting; Map One Real Local Decision From Agenda to Outcome; Teach-Back — Explain One Government Process to Your Block; A Community Issue Campaign in the Advocacy Spirit

Judicial Systems in the USA vs Other Countries

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth (combined adaptation with the topic below — "Courts and Governments Around the World")

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: The American System in One Picture — Two Court Systems Side by Side; How a Case Moves Here — Trials, Appeals, and Judicial Review; The World's Legal Families — Five Ways to Build a Law System; Two Ways to Run a Trial — Adversarial and Inquisitorial; Who Decides — Juries, Judges, and Mixed Panels; When a Case Crosses a Border — What the Differences Mean for an Ordinary Person · Law Enforcement: The American Baseline — Where Police Work Meets Two Court Systems; The World's Legal Families — What an Officer Will Meet in Foreign Records; How Trials Work Elsewhere — The Inquisitorial Model and the Dossier; Who Decides Abroad — Professional Judges, Lay Judges, and Few Juries; Rights on the Ground — Questioning, Counsel, and Evidence Rules Vary; Working Across Borders — Counterparts, Records, and Why Jurisdiction Decides Outcomes · Youth (combined): Courts in Our Country — A Quick Map; Other Countries Run Courts Differently — And That Is Normal; Governments Come in Different Shapes; Rules Between Countries — A First Look at International Law; Why This Matters to You

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Reading a Foreign Court's Decision — Structure and Signals; Criminal Procedure Compared — Arrest, Charge, and Bail in Four Systems; Family Law Across Borders in Depth — Marriage, Divorce, and Custody Recognition; The European Court of Human Rights and Regional Courts

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Comparative Constitutional Review — Strong Courts, Weak Courts, None; Commercial Courts and Arbitration — Where Cross-Border Business Disputes Actually Go; Legal Transplants and Reform — How Countries Borrow Systems; Studying a Judgment-Recognition Problem End to End

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): The Country Dossier Project — One System Mapped Completely; Mock Cross-Border Case — From Filing to Recognition; Teach-Back — Explaining a Foreign System to a Community Group

Governments in Other Countries and International Law

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth (combined adaptation with the topic above — "Courts and Governments Around the World")

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: Ways to Organize a Government — Republics, Monarchies, and More; Parliamentary and Presidential Systems — Two Ways to Connect Voters and Leaders; Federal and Unitary Systems — Where Power Sits; Governments Without Competitive Elections — Described Plainly; International Law — Rules Countries Make Together; The Institutions, the Daily-Life Reach, and the Honest Limits · Law Enforcement: Why Government Structure Matters to an Officer; How Police Are Organized Around the World — Local, National, and Gendarmerie Models; Extradition — How a Person Is Legally Sent from One Country to Another (Outline); Mutual Legal Assistance — Getting Records and Evidence Across Borders (Outline); Treaties That Touch Police Work — Consular Notification and Organized-Crime Conventions; INTERPOL and International Courts — What They Can and Cannot Do · Youth (combined): see the Judicial Systems entry above — the Youth unit is one combined unit for both topics

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): The United Nations in Depth — Councils, Agencies, and Peacekeeping; Human-Rights Treaties and How Individuals Use Them; Trade Law for Ordinary Life — Tariffs, Agreements, and Prices; Diplomacy and Embassies — What Consulates Actually Do

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Reading a Treaty — Text, Reservations, and Ratification Fights; International Humanitarian Law — The Laws of Armed Conflict in Outline; Sanctions and Enforcement — How Pressure Is Applied Without a World Police; Comparing Constitutions — Rights on Paper vs. Rights in Practice

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): The Treaty Tracker Project — One Agreement Followed for a Season; Model Briefing — A Country's Government Explained in Ten Minutes; Teach-Back — The UN, the World Court, and the ICC Without the Confusion

Corruption

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What Corruption Is; The Main Forms — Bribery, Embezzlement, Abuse of Office, and Conflicts of Interest; How Corruption Harms Communities; How Oversight Is Supposed to Work; Reporting Wrongdoing Safely and Well; Whistleblower Protections in General

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Contracts and Bidding — Where the Money Leaks; Ethics Rules and Financial Disclosure, in Detail; Inside an Audit — Documents Auditors Actually Read; Interviewing, Timelines, and Report Writing for Oversight

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Case Studies — How Real Schemes Were Built and Caught; Corruption Combined With Fraud and Civil-Rights Violations; When Oversight Itself Fails — Layered Remedies; Protecting a Whistleblower Through a Long Case

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Build a Public-Records Timeline on a Real Local Question; Community Oversight Project — Attend, Document, Report Back; Teach-Back — Run a Reporting-Readiness Workshop; Design an Honest-Office Checklist for a Small Agency

DOJ — Department of Justice

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What the Department of Justice Is; The Parts People Hear About Most; What the DOJ Does Day to Day; What the DOJ Does Not Do; Federal DOJ and State Attorneys General — Who Does What; How an Ordinary Person Interacts With the DOJ

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Inside a U.S. Attorney's Office — How Federal Cases Are Screened; Task Forces in Practice — Joint Local and Federal Work; The Civil Rights Division's Process, Step by Step; Federal Victims, Witnesses, and Jury Service

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Case Studies — Multi-State Schemes and How They Were Built; Pattern-or-Practice Investigations From Complaint to Findings; Choosing the Forum — Hard Routing Cases; Federal Sentencing and the Bureau of Prisons, in Outline

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Route Ten Real-World Scenarios to the Right Office, With Reasons; Community Briefing — Explain a Federal Case in the News Accurately; Teach-Back — A Resident's Guide to Federal vs State Help; Build a Local Referral Card in the Advocacy Spirit

Legal System Codes

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What a Code Is — Laws Written Down and Organized; Titles, Chapters, and Sections — How the Shelves Are Built; Two Examples of Organization — The U.S. Code and the Massachusetts General Laws; How to Read a Citation's Shape; Where to Look Up a Real Law; Using Codes Carefully — What a Code Cannot Tell You Alone

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Regulations and Their Own Code Collections; Reading a Whole Chapter — A Guided Worked Example; Bills, Acts, and Session Laws — Watching Law Change; Annotated Codes and Case Notes, Hands On

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): When the Code and the Case Law Pull Apart; Prior Versions and Effective Dates in Real Disputes; Ordinances, Court Rules, and Codes Combined in One Problem; Research Trails — Documenting How You Found the Law

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Verify a Viral Legal Claim From Citation to Text, Start to Finish; Build a Neighborhood 'Find the Real Law' Guide; Teach-Back — A Law-Library Session for Your Community; Research Project in the Advocacy Spirit — One Question, Fully Sourced

Circumstances for Actions

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Why Circumstances Change the Legal Answer; Intent — What Was in the Person's Mind; Accident, Mistake, Negligence, and Recklessness; Self-Defense and Defense of Others; Necessity, Duress, and Consent; Aggravating and Mitigating Circumstances at Sentencing

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): The Elements of an Offense — How Charges Are Built From Circumstances; Retreat Rules and the Home — State Differences in Detail; Evidence of State of Mind — Words, Preparation, and Afterward; Sentencing Hearings — How Circumstances Are Presented

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Hard Cases — Mixed Motives and Split-Second Interventions; Combined Defenses in One Incident, Case-Study Style; When Circumstances Collide With the Codes — Researching the Actual Rules; Charging Decisions — A Prosecutor's-Eye Case Study

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Analyze a Full Case File and Defend Your Reading; Community Teach-Back — Reading a Verdict in the News Without Outrage or Confusion; Mock Sentencing — Weighing Aggravating and Mitigating Facts; A Plain-Language Circumstances Guide for Your Community, in the Advocacy Spirit

How to Become President of the USA

Schools: Adult · Youth

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult — "How to Become President of the USA — The Constitutional Path, Step by Step: Eligibility, Nomination, Election, Counting, and Inauguration": Part 1. The constitutional door — who may serve / Part 2. Deciding, organizing, and registering — the campaign as a legal structure / Part 3. Primaries and caucuses — winning a party's nomination / Part 4. Conventions, running mates, and ballot access / Part 5. The general election and the Electoral College / Part 6. Counting, certification, and inauguration — and the honest summary · Youth — "How to Become President of the USA — The Real Path, Step by Step, From the Constitution to Inauguration Day": Part 1. The three rules in the Constitution / Part 2. Step one and two — parties pick their person: primaries, caucuses, and conventions / Part 3. Step three — the whole country votes / Part 4. Step four — the Electoral College finishes the job / Part 5. January 20 — inauguration, and what you can do right now

Years 2–4 (planned): Year 2 — The Campaign Calendar: From Announcement to Convention, Month by Month · Year 2 — Campaign Finance in Depth: Limits, Reports, and Public Financing · Year 3 — The Electoral College in History and Debate: The Law as It Stands · Year 4 — Capstone: Plan a Complete, Lawful Candidacy on Paper

Constitution and Bill of Rights

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: What the Constitution is — and what it is not; How the Constitution is built — the parts and what each one does; The Bill of Rights, amendment by amendment in plain words; Later amendments — rights that grew over time; How rights work in real life — and where they have limits; Your role — using, protecting, and changing the Constitution · Law Enforcement: What the Constitution is — the document behind the oath; How the Constitution is built — and where police power fits; The Bill of Rights, amendment by amendment — what officers must honor; Later amendments — equal protection and voting rights on the street; How rights work in real encounters — limits, courts, and close calls; Your role — honoring rights while doing the job

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): The Fourth Amendment in depth — searches, warrants, and consent; The Fifth and Sixth Amendments in depth — silence, counsel, and fair trials; Due process and equal protection in everyday disputes; State constitutions — when Massachusetts protects more

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Reading court decisions — how precedent is built and changed; Rights in digital life — phones, data, and location; Balancing tests — how courts weigh rights against public interests; The amendment process as citizens have actually used it

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-back — lead a plain-words Bill of Rights session in your community; Rights audit — review a real agency encounter against the Constitution; Case-study project — follow one right through three court decisions; Community application — a know-your-rights resource fair with local legal aid

First Amendment Rights

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: What the First Amendment protects — five freedoms in one amendment; Free speech — what it covers and what it does not; Freedom of religion — two clauses, two protections; Press, assembly, and petition — speaking together and speaking to government; First Amendment rights at school, at work, and in public spaces; What to do when you believe your First Amendment rights were limited · Law Enforcement: What the First Amendment protects — five freedoms officers encounter daily; Free speech on the street — protected words, unprotected categories, and officer conduct; Freedom of religion — neutrality in enforcement; Press, assembly, and petition — crowds, cameras, and complaints; First Amendment rights in schools, workplaces, and public spaces — what officers are often asked; What to do when a First Amendment question arises on a call

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Speech categories in depth — threats, fraud, defamation, and incitement; Permits, protests, and public forums in practice; Religion in public institutions — schools, funding, and displays; Student and employee speech — the case law in plain words

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Prior restraint and the press — history and hard cases; Government speech vs. private speech on official accounts; Compelled speech and professional speech disputes; Retaliation claims — elements, evidence, and defenses

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-back — run a five-freedoms workshop for a neighborhood group; Meeting project — attend, speak, and petition through one full public issue; Neutrality drill review — analyze recorded encounters for viewpoint problems; Community application — build a local guide to comment, permit, and complaint channels

Miranda Rights

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: What Miranda rights are — and where they came from; The four warnings in plain words; When Miranda applies — custody plus interrogation; Invoking your rights — and waiving them; What happens if warnings are not given — evidence rules in general; Young people and Miranda — and what to do in a real encounter · Law Enforcement: What Miranda rights are — and where they came from; The four warnings in plain words — what officers must communicate; When Miranda applies — custody plus interrogation on the street and at the station; Invocation and waiver — honoring the choice a person makes; What happens if warnings are not given — evidence, exceptions in general, and documentation; Young people and Miranda — extra care with juveniles

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Custody close cases — stations, cars, hospitals, and schools; Interrogation boundaries — volunteered statements, booking questions, and undercover contact; Waiver litigation — totality of the circumstances in real hearings; Two-step questioning and its court treatment

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Juvenile Miranda — state protections and interrogation research; Language access and comprehension in warnings; Recorded interrogations — standards, review, and false-confession safeguards; Miranda and immigration, military, and tribal settings in general terms

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-back — teach the custody-plus-interrogation test to a community class; Hearing project — observe a suppression hearing and map it to the unit; Interview review — audit recorded interviews against the four warnings; Community application — a wallet-card and family guide to invoking rights, reviewed by a local defense lawyer

How to Understand Laws With Weapons per State

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now) — Adult parts: One right, two governments — the shape of weapons law · The federal floor — what federal law sets for everyone · The state map — three kinds of carry regimes, as categories · Who may not possess, and where carry is restricted — the general level · Massachusetts in depth — chapter 140 and chapter 269, section 10 · How to read one state's law — and verify it officially

Year 1 — Foundations (open now) — Law Enforcement parts: The same map, from the responder's side of the counter · The federal floor an officer actually meets · State regimes as categories — and why the category is not the encounter · Prohibited persons and restricted places — verification, not assumption · Massachusetts in depth — licensing framework, carrying offenses, and the Bruen advisory · Helping the public read the law — and knowing the limits of the desk answer

Year 2 (planned): Reading a State's Full Firearms Code; Federal Categories in Depth — the NFA and the GCA; Place Restrictions as Categories — a Verification Practicum; Session Laws and Phase-Ins

Year 3 (planned): The Framework Cases After Bruen; Interstate Travel and Federal Safe Passage in Outline; Appeals, Relief, and Record Correction; Restricted Places in the Case Law

Year 4 (planned): Comparative State Systems Seminar; Teaching the Public to Verify; Weapons Law as a Living System

How to Get Licensed to Carry per State

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now) — Adult parts: What a license to carry is — and what it is not · The three doors — permitless, shall-issue, and licensing states, as categories · Reciprocity and travel — your license ends at the state line unless the next state says otherwise · Before you apply — eligibility screens you will meet everywhere · Massachusetts, step by step — the official path to an LTC · After the license — renewals, address changes, denials, and staying current

Year 1 — Foundations (open now) — Law Enforcement parts: The licensing desk — what this system asks of law enforcement · Categories an officer will hear claimed — and what each claim actually means · Out-of-state licenses, visitors, and LEOSA — recognition in outline · The Massachusetts file — what a complete LTC application contains · Suitability and prohibited-person decisions — reasons in writing, every time · Denials, appeals, renewals, and the public's questions — closing the loop lawfully

Year 2 (planned): The Application File in Depth; Training Requirements Across the Categories; Nonresident Licensing Practicum; Fees, Terms, and Renewal Cycles

Year 3 (planned): Suitability in the Case Law; Revocations, Suspensions, and Restoration; Recognition Shifts — Tracking Other States Lawfully; The Appeal Record

Year 4 (planned): Administering Licensing Lawfully — a Desk Seminar; Licensing After the 2024 Act; The Applicant's Advocate — Explaining Decisions

Wiretapping, Phone Cloning, and Illegal Surveillance

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement (Youth protective adaptation is filed under "Hidden Technology in the Home" below: When Someone Is Watching Your Phone)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: What interception means — the federal Wiretap Act; Consent — the rule that decides most real cases; When wiretapping is lawful — and why the process is deliberately hard; Phone cloning and SIM-swap fraud; Tracking people — GPS, location records, and stalkerware; Satellites and spying technology — the honest picture; Your rights when it happens to you · Law Enforcement: The constitutional frame — people, not places; Title III done right — the strictest process in American law; The phone in the suspect's hand — Riley and the warrant rule; Location evidence — Jones, Carpenter, and the geofence question; Eyes and sensors on the home — Kyllo and what comes next; When the suspect is the surveiller — stalkerware and illegal taps; Getting it wrong costs the case — suppression and the professional stake

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): The Stored Communications Act in depth — records, providers, and the § 2703 ladder; Pen registers and trap-and-trace — the law of addressing information; State wiretap laws compared — consent maps and state interception acts; Wiretapping where you live and work — employers, landlords, and family members recording each other

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Civil wiretap litigation — building a § 2520 case (damages, fees, defenses); Geofence and reverse warrants — reading the divided courts closely; Drones, pole cameras, and plate readers — surveillance technology in the lower courts; Signals and satellites at university depth — real capabilities from public sources only

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-back — teach the consent rules to a community group; Case-file practicum — a simulated § 2520 claim from intake to filing outline; Rights audit — review your own devices, accounts, and carrier protections end to end

Hidden Technology in the Home

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth (Youth protective adaptation: When Someone Is Watching Your Phone — secret monitoring by a partner, friend, ex, or stranger: location-sharing pressure, password demands, and account snooping; telling a safe adult; parents' household rules are a family matter and are not this unit's subject)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: Safety first, and how homes get watched; The smart home — who holds the admin account holds the home; Finding hidden cameras and microphones; Finding watching that lives in accounts and networks; Preserve the evidence before anything changes; Report it — in an order that keeps you safe; Take legal action — and honest expectations · Law Enforcement: The call you are walking into; Interview and documentation at intake; What you are looking for; Preservation that survives court; Charges and orders; Working the attribution problem honestly; Staying inside your own limits · Youth: Watching vs caring — where the line is; Location sharing — your location is yours to share; Passwords and accounts are yours — and the safe-device rule; Apps — stores, permissions, and stalkerware; What to do — tell, save proof, and get support

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Account security in depth — passkeys, authenticators, and controlling recovery options; Surveillance in rentals, workplaces, and schools — the rules outside your own front door; Working with advocates and legal aid — the referral map; Setting up a smart home safely from the very first device

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): The civil case built — privacy claims, ch. 93A, and § 2520 combined (attorney-reviewed outline); Provider and platform legal process for victims and their counsel; What the research says — reading studies on technology-facilitated abuse critically

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-back — run a community technology-safety clinic from this unit; Home audit practicum — a full documented audit of a volunteer household, start to finish; Train-the-helper — preparing advocates and front-desk staff to take technology-abuse reports well

The Right to Remain Silent

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth (combined protective unit with the presumption topic — "Your Rights When Police Question You")

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: The Fifth Amendment itself — what it covers, and what it does not; Miranda's trigger and teeth — what exclusion does and does not do; Invocation — silence must be claimed out loud; The edges — before arrest, at the roadside, at your door, and in civil cases; Silence at trial — the courtroom protections; Why innocent people talk — and the closing discipline · Law Enforcement: Administering warnings lawfully — and the voluntariness underneath; Custody and interrogation judgment calls — volunteered statements and public safety; Recognizing invocation — clarity, ambiguity, and the professional response; Honoring invocation — Mosley, Edwards, and the Doyle rule; Juveniles — extra care, the Massachusetts interested-adult rule, and the deception statutes; Deception limits and reliability — recording, documentation, and the suppression-hearing test · Youth: A stop is not a verdict — you are presumed innocent; The sentences that protect you — say them out loud; Massachusetts gives young people an extra shield; Searches — you do not have to agree; During the encounter — and after it

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Invocation in writing — forms, recordings, and the paper trail; Waiver doctrine in depth — what "knowing and voluntary" has to survive on appeal; The two-interrogation problem — question-first tactics after Missouri v. Seibert; Silence in grand jury, legislative, and administrative settings; Juvenile interrogation reform — reading the state deception statutes comparatively

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): The fruits doctrine in depth — Patane, Harris, and the limits of exclusion; Comparative practice — how other common-law systems warn and record; Interrogation science — what the false-confession research literature actually shows; Silence and technology — compelled passwords, biometrics, and the unsettled testimonial line

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-back — teach the three model sentences and what each one does to a community group; Suppression-hearing practicum (LE) — defend a documented interrogation file against a motion to suppress; Know-your-rights clinic project — prepare a one-page invocation card reviewed by a practicing attorney

Presumption of Innocence and Racial Profiling

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement (the Youth essentials of this topic are taught inside the combined Youth unit "Your Rights When Police Question You" — a stop is not a verdict; no separate Youth unit for this topic)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: The promise — a trial right, stated at full strength; Legally innocent, locked up — bail and the road to a plea; The encounter doctrines — where suspicion is built; What the data show — and how to read them honestly; Floyd — the case where the pattern itself went to trial; The repair tools — and the honest synthesis · Law Enforcement: The presumption as a street-level professional standard; Terry discipline — suspicion you can say out loud; Whren's lesson — a lawful basis is not the same as a wise one; Consent searches — voluntariness, documentation, and the disparity file; Your own data — how stop numbers are made and read; Pattern-or-practice and consent decrees — the professional's view

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Bail reform in the states — what changed, what the evaluations found, argued both ways; Reading a stop-data report critically — denominators, benchmarks, and the outcome and threshold tests; The trial penalty debate — the scholarship and its critics, attributed; Equal Protection doctrine after Whren — what a selective-enforcement claim must prove

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Consent decrees in depth — two decrees read end to end, monitors' reports included; State data programs compared — California RIPA, Illinois, and Massachusetts § 63 side by side; The history of the presumption — from the common law through Coffin to the modern doctrine; Body-worn cameras — the evaluation literature and its limits

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-back — teach the promise/gap analysis to a community class without slogans from any direction; Data project — obtain and present one year of your own state's published stop data with methods stated; Decree audit (LE) — map your agency's policies against one consent decree's requirements, in writing

How Racism Is Fought — and What the Record Shows: Communities, Governments, Religions

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth (age-appropriate adaptation — fairness and courage)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: The Words, Defined With Care — Prejudice, Discrimination, and Institutional Racism; The History Spine — Slavery's Laws, the Reconstruction Amendments, and Jim Crow; The Courtroom Turning Points — Brown and Loving; The Three Great Statutes — 1964, 1965, and 1968; Communities, First Tool — Contact, Schools, and What the Research Found; Communities, Second Tool — Document It, Report It, and the Hate-Crime Laws; Communities, Third Tool — Local Power, Redlining, and Standing Up; Governments — Equal Protection and the Intent Rule; Disparate Impact and the Reconstruction-Era Civil-Rights Statutes; Voting — The Voting Rights Act, Shelby County, and What Followed; The Live Debates — Affirmative Action After 2023, DEI Programs, and Reparations Proposals; Religions — What the Texts Teach; Religions — The Honest Double History and the Work Being Done Today; The Record So Far — What the Evidence Shows, and What Actually Moved the Numbers — Law Enforcement: The Professional Standard — Equal Enforcement Is the Job; Bias-Free Policing Standards — What the Published Guidance Says; Hate Crimes — Recognizing, Documenting, and Reporting Them Well; Community Trust — Practices With a Documented Record; Inside the Agency — Complaints, Data, and Owning the Record — Youth: Fair and Unfair — What Racism Means in Plain Words; True Stories — Young People Who Changed Things; Words That Wound — Slurs, Exclusion, and "Just Joking"; What To Do When You See It — The Upstander Steps; Kindness as a Practice — And When To Tell a Safe Adult

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): School-Funding Equity in Depth — How the Money Follows the Map; Housing Patterns and Appraisal-Bias Claims as Studied; Employment Testing After Griggs — Validation, Business Necessity, and the Record; Voting After Shelby County — Section 2 Litigation and State Voting Laws in Practice; Measuring a Community — Auditing Local Data Without Fooling Yourself

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Comparative Anti-Discrimination Law — How Other Democracies Write and Enforce It; Truth-and-Reconciliation Models as Documented; Institutional Audits and Their Evidence — Methods, Limits, and Follow-Through; The Reconstruction Statutes in Modern Litigation — Sections 1981, 1982, and 1983 in Depth; Faith Communities and Reform — Case Studies in Congregational Change

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Leading a Community Documentation Clinic — Teaching Neighbors to Build a Record That Holds Up; Teaching the Foundations Units — A Practicum in the History Spine and the Intent Rule; Portfolio Review — A Local Equity Audit, Presented and Defended

Ending Slavery in All Forms

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement — no Youth version (the Wave 4-J Youth unit belongs to the Background Checks topic below)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: The words, precisely; The Thirteenth Amendment, word by word; Peonage — how debt re-enslaved, and how the Court closed it; The modern federal law; The punishment exception today; Slavery today, worldwide; What ends it — and your part · Law Enforcement: The legal map an officer works under; Victim identification first; The framework of a trafficking investigation, at the public level; Charging and the courtroom, in outline; Prison labor and the punishment exception; Working with survivors and services

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Not yet levelled — the Wave 4-J unit files carry Year 1 only; Years 2–4 are to be levelled in a later pass.

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Not yet levelled — see the Year 2 note.

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Not yet levelled — see the Year 2 note.

Court Systems

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Two Systems Side by Side — Federal Courts and State Courts; Trial Courts and Appeals Courts — Two Different Jobs; Who Is Who in the Courtroom; How a Case Moves Through Court, Step by Step; Juries — The Citizen's Seat in the Courtroom; Court Manners, Safety, and What to Do on Your Day in Court

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Massachusetts Court Departments in Depth; How Judges Are Selected and How Courts Are Funded; Specialized Courts — Drug, Veterans, Mental Health, and Family Treatment Courts; Open Courts, Records, and Cameras — Public Access and Its Limits

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Reading a Docket and a Case File; Appellate Practice — Briefs, Standards of Review, and Opinions; Federal Practice Essentials — Removal, Diversity, and Federal Questions; Problem-Solving Courts and Restorative Justice Models

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Courthouse Observation Project — Attend, Map, and Report a Session; Mock Appellate Argument; Community Court-Watch and Access Report; Teach-Back — Presenting the Court Map to a Community Group

Lawsuits and Settlements

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What a Civil Lawsuit Is — and What It Is Not; Starting a Case — The Complaint and the Answer; Discovery — Sharing the Facts Before Trial; Mediation and Negotiation — Talking It Out With Help; Settlements and Verdicts — Two Different Endings; Small Claims and Signing a Settlement — Reading Before You Agree

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Damages — What Money Awards Measure; Class Actions and Mass Claims in Plain Language; Collecting a Judgment — Enforcement Step by Step; Insurance in Civil Cases — Who Really Decides and Pays; Structured Settlements and Payment Over Time

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Reading a Settlement Agreement Like a Lawyer; Liens, Subrogation, and Who Gets Paid First; Appeals After Verdict — Post-Trial Motions and Stays; Confidentiality, Non-Disparagement, and Tax Questions in Settlements

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Mock Mediation — A Full Simulated Case; Draft and Critique a Demand Letter (Practice Exercise); Small Claims Clinic Shadowing and Debrief; Teach-Back — Walking a Neighbor Through a Summons, Step by Step

Lawyers and Counsel

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Counsel Means Lawyer — The Words Courts Use; The Main Roles — Prosecutor, Defense, and Civil Lawyers; Public Defenders and Court-Appointed Lawyers; Finding and Hiring a Lawyer — Step by Step; Legal Aid, Clinics, and Representing Yourself (Pro Se); Attorney-Client Privilege and Working Well With Your Lawyer

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Legal Ethics and Lawyer Discipline — What Clients Can Expect; Fee Agreements Under the Microscope; Conflicts of Interest in Real Life; The Prosecutor's Duty to Seek Justice; Guardians, Conservators, and Lawyers for Children

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Co-Counsel, Local Counsel, and Changing Lawyers Mid-Case; Privilege Exceptions and Waiver Traps; Limited Assistance Representation in Depth; Malpractice and Fee Disputes — The Client's Remedies

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): The Consultation Project — Interviewing and Comparing Three Lawyers; Build a Personal Legal-Help Directory for Your Community; Mock Client Intake and Referral Exercise; Teach-Back — Explaining Counsel, Privilege, and Pro Se to a New Learner

Under Oath

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What an Oath and an Affirmation Are; Where Oaths Appear — Court, Depositions, and Affidavits; What Swearing to Tell the Truth Actually Requires; Perjury — Lying Under Oath, in General Terms; "I Don't Know" and "I Don't Remember" — The Honest Answers; Getting Ready to Testify — Calm, Clear, and Truthful

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Cross-Examination — How It Works and How to Stay Steady; Expert Witnesses and the Oath; Grand Jury Testimony in Depth; Sworn Financial Statements and Affidavits in Family Court; Interpreters and Translated Testimony

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Impeachment Materials — Prior Statements, Records, and Bias; Recantation and Correction — Fixing Testimony Lawfully; Witness Immunity and Compelled Testimony, in General Terms; Remote and Recorded Testimony

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Mock Direct and Cross-Examination (Practice Testimony Lab); Affidavit Drafting Workshop — Write, Review, Correct; Courtroom Observation — Scoring Witness Credibility Like a Juror; Teach-Back — Coaching a First-Time Witness Through Preparation

Lie Detectors

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What a Polygraph Is and How It Claims to Work; The Science Debate — What the Machine Can and Cannot Show; Where Polygraphs Are Used — Jobs and Investigations; Polygraphs in Court — Strict Limits, Especially in Massachusetts; Workers' Protections — Polygraphs and Employment; If You Are Asked to Take One — Rights, Choices, and Calm Next Steps

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Inside the Examination Room — Question Design and Scoring; Voice Stress and Other "Truth" Technologies — The Wider Family; Polygraphs in Security Clearances — The Full Process; The History of Lie Detection — From Early Devices to Modern Reviews

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Challenging a Polygraph Result — Re-Examination and Review Paths; Employment Law Workshop — The Employee Polygraph Protection Act and Massachusetts Law in Practice; Polygraphs and Vulnerable People — Youth, Trauma, and Medical Conditions; Countermeasures and Examiner Counter-Practices — The Arms Race

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Evidence-vs-Opinion Audit — Rewrite Machine Claims as Investigative Leads; Community Briefing — What a Polygraph Result Does and Does Not Mean; Mock Screening Preparation — Rest, Honesty, and Brevity; Teach-Back — Explaining False Positives to a Worried Job Applicant

Probation

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What Probation Is — and What It Is Not; How Probation Starts — Sentencing and Supervision; Conditions — The Rules a Person Lives By; The Probation Officer — Supervision, Support, and Check-Ins; When Things Go Wrong — Violations and Violation Hearings; Finishing Well — Completion and Early Termination

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Specialized Caseloads — Domestic Violence, Substance Use, and Mental Health Supervision; Fees, Restitution, and Financial Planning on Probation; Travel, Moving, and Interstate Supervision Transfers; Supporting a Family Member on Probation

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Graduated Responses and Sanction Grids in Practice; Risk and Needs Assessment — How Supervision Levels Are Set; Probation in Juvenile Cases; Records, Sealing, and Life After Supervision

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Completion Mentoring Project — Walking a New Probationer Through Their First 90 Days; Teaching-Back — A Community Session on Finishing Probation Well; Case-File Audit Exercise With a Local Legal Aid Partner

Warrants

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What a Warrant Is — A Judge's Written Order; The Main Kinds of Warrants; What Makes a Warrant Valid in General; How Warrants Are Carried Out; If There Is a Warrant — Surrender and Clearing It in General; After the Warrant — Court, Records, and Next Steps

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Search Warrants for Homes, Vehicles, and Digital Devices; No-Knock Authorizations and Their Limits; Mistaken Identity and Name-Twin Warrants — Clearing the Record; Warrants Across State Lines and Transfer Processes

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Challenging a Warrant — Motions to Suppress in General; Affidavit Review — Reading What the Judge Read; Warrant Amnesty and Surrender Programs; Children and Families During Warrant Service

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Household Readiness Project — A Family's Warrant and Court-Papers Plan; Teaching-Back — A Plain-Language Warrant Clinic for Your Neighborhood; Wrong-Address Prevention Review With Community and Department Voices

Subpoena

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What a Subpoena Is — An Order to Give or Show; The Two Main Kinds — Testimony and Documents; Who Issues Subpoenas and How Service Works; What to Do When a Subpoena Arrives; Duties and Options — Respond, Ask, or Object Through the Court; If a Subpoena Is Ignored — Consequences in General

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Grand Jury Subpoenas in General; Privilege in Practice — Medical, Counseling, and Family Records; Subpoenas for Digital Records and Messages; Testifying Well — Preparation, Memory, and the Honest 'I Don't Remember'

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Motions to Quash — Grounds and Timing in Depth; Custodians and Organizational Production at Scale; Witness Rights, Immunity in General, and Self-Incrimination; Subpoenas Across Agencies and Jurisdictions

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Records-Readiness Project — Building a Subpoena Response File for a Small Organization; Teaching-Back — A Witness Orientation Session for Your Community; Mock Deposition Practice With Legal Aid Observers

Suspects

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): The Words Matter — Suspect, Person of Interest, Witness, Defendant; How Someone Becomes a Suspect in General; Rights a Suspect Keeps — Silence, Counsel, and Fair Process; How Investigations Narrow — From Many Names to Fewer; What Being Called a Suspect Does and Does Not Mean; Clearing a Name and Moving Forward in General

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Interviews and Interrogations — Voluntary Talk, Custody, and Warnings in Depth; Identifications — Lineups, Showups, and Reliability; Media, Naming, and the Life of a Label Online; Families of Suspects — Support, Safety, and Communication

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Tunnel Vision and Wrongful Convictions — Case Studies in General; Alibis — Building and Testing Them; Charging Decisions — How Prosecutors Weigh a File; Sealing, Correction, and Reputation Repair After Clearing

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Community Teaching Project — 'Accused Is Not Convicted' Session for Schools and Congregations; Case-Review Exercise — Arguing Both Sides of a File; Re-Entry and Restoration Support Project With a Local Partner Organization

Offenders

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What the Word Offender Actually Means; From Charge to Finding — How a Person Comes to Carry the Label; Sentencing in General — What a Judge Is Trying to Do; Records and What Follows a Person; Rehabilitation — Accountability That Aims at Change; Reentry — Coming Home and Starting Again; Rights, Responsibilities, and How Families and Neighbors Can Help

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Record Review and Sealing Readiness; Supervision Conditions in Daily Life; Family Reentry Planning; Employer and Landlord Conversations

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Advanced Collateral-Consequences Mapping; Victim-Centered Restorative Practices; Long-Term Supervision Outcomes; Policy: Records, Work, and Housing

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Reentry Support Practicum — Building a First-90-Days Plan; Teaching Back: Explaining Findings vs. Charges to a Community Group; Community Application: Fair-Chance Resource Fair Project

Criminals

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Criminal — A Word People Use and What the Law Actually Says; Criminal Records — What Is in Them and How They Are Created; How the Label Follows a Person — Background Checks and CORI in Massachusetts; Sealing and Expungement in General — A Second Look at an Old Record; Why This School Uses Precise Words; Living Beyond a Record — Work, Housing, and Community; Helping Someone Who Is Being Judged by a Label

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Reading a Full Record Entry by Entry; Application Questions and Honest Answers; Housing Screening Disputes; Record Errors Across Databases

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Comparative Sealing and Expungement Systems; Media Language and Public Records; Licensing Boards and Record Use; Policy Lab: Blanket Bans vs. Individual Review

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Community Record-Help Clinic Practicum (with Legal Aid); Teaching Back: Precise-Words Workshop for Employers; Community Application: Fair Screening Pledge Project

Accomplices

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What Accomplice Liability Means in Plain Words; Helping, Encouraging, and Being Present — Where the Line Is Drawn; Accomplice, Accessory, and Co-Defendant — Three Different Words; How Shared Liability Works — Step by Step; The Risk on the Edges — Drivers, Lookouts, and Borrowed Things; If You Are Worried You Crossed a Line — What to Do; Protecting Yourself and the People You Love

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Texts, Promises, and Proof of Encouragement; Withdrawal and Refusal Skills in Depth; Family Members After a Crime — Legal Boundaries; Youth Edge Roles: Cars, Phones, and Parties

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Multi-Defendant Case Studies; Cooperation, Pleas, and Fairness; Digital Help: Messages, Locations, and Accounts; Comparative Approaches to Shared Liability

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Prevention Practicum — Edge-Role Intervention Role-Plays; Teaching Back: The Driver Can Be Charged — A Youth Session; Community Application: Safe-Ride and Refusal Campaign

Crime Scenes

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What a Crime Scene Is — And Why It Matters; The First Minutes — First Responders and Securing a Scene; Documenting and Collecting — How Professionals Work in General; Evidence and Chain of Custody in General; If You Come Upon a Scene — What to Do and What Never to Do; Witnesses, Juries, and Why Untouched Scenes Protect Everyone; When the Scene Is Your Home or Street — Afterward

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Digital Scenes — Phones, Homes, and Accounts; Scenes Involving Children and Vulnerable People; Insurance, Property, and Victim Claims After Release; Community Memorials and Returning to a Place

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Large and Multi-Location Scenes; Scene Work in Disaster and Mass-Casualty Settings; Courtroom Presentation of Scene Evidence; Auditing Scene Practice: Logs, Perimeters, Custody

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Scene Leadership Practicum — Full-Day Simulation; Teaching Back: Citizen Duties for Neighborhood Groups; Community Application: Block-Level Scene-Protection Guide

Investigations

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What an Investigation Is — Finding Facts, Not Confirming a Story; How an Investigation Begins — Reports and First Steps; Interviews, Evidence, and Timelines — How the Picture Is Built; The People in an Investigation — Detectives, Witnesses, Victims, and Suspects; Your Rights During an Investigation — As Witness, Victim, or Suspect; Cold Cases in General — Why Some Investigations Rest and Return; How the Public Can Help — Tips That Actually Help

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Interviews in Depth — Memory, Language, and Trauma; Digital Evidence and Records in General; Investigations Inside Institutions; Working With Prosecutors and Defense — Two Doors, One File

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Cold Case Review Methods; Wrongful Convictions — Causes and Corrections; Victim-Family Liaison Practice; Oversight, Audits, and Investigative Accountability

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Cold Case Practicum — Rebuilding a Waking-Ready File; Teaching Back: Rights in an Investigation, for Community Audiences; Community Application: Tip-Quality Public Information Project

Defending Yourself Against a False Accusation

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth (protective adaptation: "When You Are Accused — and Keeping Proof")

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: The first hours — silence, counsel, and the three things never to do; Your defense notebook — the timeline memo you write for your lawyer; The road ahead, stage by stage — report, investigation, charging, and arraignment; Discovery, motions, and the plea-or-trial decision — your right to see the evidence; Building the truthful defense — alibi, records, video, witnesses, and experts; Accused inside an institution — work, campus, a licensing board, or a DCF case; After vindication — the accuser's exposure, official accountability, and clearing your name — Law Enforcement: The innocent suspect is a real category — what the exoneration record teaches; Tunnel vision and confirmation bias — how good investigators go wrong; Brady and Giglio — disclosure duties that follow your file forever; Interviewing without manufacturing a confession; Working the case both ways — exculpatory leads get the same shoe leather; When an accusation collapses — correction, disclosure, and accountability — Youth (adaptation, "When You Are Accused — and Keeping Proof"): If you are accused — the first things to do, and the things never to do; The words that protect you — asking for your parent or guardian and a lawyer; Never sign, never delete — papers, phones, and pressure

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Grand-Jury Practice in Depth; Expert-Witness Challenges — Testing the Other Side's Science; Civil Suits After Vindication — Full Procedure; Campus and Title IX Processes in Depth; Record Relief After Dismissal — Sealing, Correction, and Background Checks

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Post-Conviction Innocence Work — How Cases Reopen; Section 1983 Litigation Anatomy; Giglio-List Litigation — When an Officer's File Follows the Case; Media and Reputation Law After an Accusation

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): The Complete Defense File, Audited; Teaching the First-72-Hours Protocol; Case-Study Clinic — Accusations That Collapsed, Studied End to End

Contracts

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: What a Contract Is; The Three Building Blocks — Offer, Acceptance, and Consideration; Written, Verbal, and Clicked — Form Matters; Reading Before You Sign — Step by Step; Everyday Contract Moments — Leases, Jobs, Phones, and Cars; When Things Go Wrong — Breach, Cancellation Windows, and Getting Help · Law Enforcement: What a Contract Is — And Why Officers Encounter Them; The Three Building Blocks — Offer, Acceptance, and Consideration; Written, Verbal, and Electronic Agreements on the Street; Civil Contract Disputes vs. Criminal Matters — Knowing the Line; Common Calls — Leases, Cars, Phones, and Services; What to Do — Document, Refer, and Avoid Giving Legal Advice

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Consumer Contracts in Depth; Employment Contracts and Offer Letters; Leases and Housing Contracts, Clause by Clause; Auto Financing and Service Contracts; Contract Negotiation Basics

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Arbitration and Dispute Clauses; Business and Freelance Contracts; Government and Insurance Contracts; Unfair Terms and Consumer Challenges; Teaching the Seven-Question Reading Check

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Community Contract-Review Clinics (with legal aid partners); Learner Portfolio — Three Real Contracts Read and Summarized; Teaching-Back Session for New Learners; A Plain-Language Contract Guide for Your Neighborhood

Agreements

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: What an Agreement Is — And How It Differs From a Contract; Everyday Agreements People Make; Putting It in Writing — Why Paper Protects Everyone; What Makes an Agreement Stick; Named Examples — Payment Plans, Custody Schedules, Plea and Settlement Agreements in General; When You Disagree About an Agreement — Talking, Mediation, and Next Steps · Law Enforcement: What an Agreement Is — The Officer's Starting Point; Agreements Officers See Every Week; Written vs. Unwritten — What You Can and Cannot Verify; What Makes an Agreement Stick — In General Terms; Plea Agreements, Settlement Agreements, and Court-Ordered Plans — In General; Disagreements About Agreements — De-escalation, Mediation, and Referral

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Family Agreements and Parenting Plans in Depth; Debt and Repayment Agreements; Mediation Skills — Preparing, Listening, Deciding; Roommate, Neighbor, and Community Agreements; Agreements at Work

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Settlement Agreements in Depth; Plea Agreements and Their Conditions in Depth; Restorative Agreements in Communities; When Agreements Fail — Escalation Paths; Drafting Agreements a Mediator Would Respect

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Community Mediation Shadowing Project; Learner Portfolio — An Agreement Written, Amended, and Kept; Teaching-Back Session on the Writing Habit; A Family Agreement Starter Kit for Your Community

Non-Disclosure Agreements

Schools: Adult (Law Enforcement: cross-reference only, noted in the block)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What a Non-Disclosure Agreement Is; What an NDA Can and Cannot Cover; NDAs at Work and in Settlements; Clauses to Read Carefully — In General; The Important Limit — Reporting Crime and Cooperating With Law Enforcement; Signing Under Pressure — And Getting Advice First

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Whistleblower Protections in Depth; NDAs and Workplace Harms — Current Law in General; Trade Secrets vs. Your Own Skills; Negotiating an NDA's Definition Clause; NDAs in Creative and Freelance Work

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Severance Packages, Clause by Clause; Settlement Confidentiality and Its Limits; NDAs, Retaliation, and Agency Complaints; Advising a Friend Without Being Their Lawyer; Case Studies — NDAs That Failed in Court, in General Terms

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Community Know-Your-Signature Workshop; Learner Portfolio — A Clause-by-Clause NDA Read; Teaching-Back Session on the Crime-Reporting Limit; A Plain-Language NDA Reader for Workers

Redactions

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: What Redaction Is; Why Documents Get Redacted; How to Read a Redacted Document; Public Records and Redaction — In General; Personal Identifiers — What Stays Private and Why; If You Need an Unredacted Record — Steps in General · Law Enforcement: What Redaction Is — The Officer's Role; Why Records Get Redacted; Reading and Using Redacted Documents in Your Work; Public Records Requests and Redaction — In General; Ethics and Rules Around Releasing Records; Doing It Right — Checks Before Anything Is Released

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Public Records Requests, Step by Step; Court Filings and Privacy Rules; Medical, School, and Benefits Records — Your Access Rights; Appeals That Work — Writing the Second Request; Protecting Your Family's Identifiers Online and on Paper

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Exemption Categories in Depth; Sealed Records and Expungement, in General; Journalism, Research, and Redacted Archives; Records Ethics for Public Employees; Reading Investigations After They Close

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Community Records-Request Workshop; Learner Portfolio — A Request, a Response, and an Appeal; Teaching-Back Session on Reading the Frame First; A Neighborhood Guide to Public Records

Confidential

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What Confidential Means in Everyday Life; Confidentiality in Law and Professional Life; Confidential Records — Health, School, Work, and Court; Confidential Sources and Informants at a General Level; Your Duties When Someone Trusts You; When Confidentiality Has Limits; What to Do If Confidential Information Is Mishandled

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Privacy Rights in Daily Life; Confidentiality at Work in Depth; Health Privacy and Your Records; Keeping Confidences in Ministry and Caregiving

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Privilege and Courts in Depth; Records, Sealing, and Expungement Concepts; Confidentiality When Families Disagree; Teaching Privacy Habits to Children

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Community Privacy Workshop (teaching-back project); A Household Records and Privacy Audit; Helping a Neighbor Through a Privacy Breach (supervised community application)

Top Secret

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): The Classification Ladder; Why Governments Classify Information; Who Decides and Who Handles Classified Information; Clearances at a Newspaper Level; Declassification and FOIA Over Time; Famous Public Examples in General Terms; The Seriousness of Mishandling and Your Role as a Citizen

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Reading Declassified History; FOIA Requests Step by Step; Classification Debates in Congress and the Courts; Careers in Public Service and Trust

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Over-Classification and Its Costs — A Civic Discussion; Whistleblowing, Oversight, and Lawful Channels in General Terms; Archives Research Projects; Secrecy in Wartime and Peacetime Compared

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): A Declassified-History Exhibit (community project); Teaching the Classification Ladder to New Learners (teaching-back); A Guided FOIA Request From Start to Finish

National Security

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What National Security Means; The Public Agencies and Roles; Defense, Intelligence, and Homeland Security — The Big Ideas; Security and Civil Liberties — A Civic Balance; How Ordinary People Encounter National Security; Courts, Congress, and Oversight; Being an Informed, Responsible Citizen

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Emergency Preparedness for Households and Neighborhoods; How Oversight Investigations Work; Security Claims in the News — A Media Literacy Lab; Local, State, and Federal Roles in a Disaster

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Civil Liberties in Emergencies — History and Lessons; Intelligence Successes and Failures in the Public Record; Community Trust as a Security Asset; The Budget as a Civic Document

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): A Neighborhood Preparedness Project (community application); Teaching the Four Questions (teaching-back); A Community Meeting on Safety and Rights, Planned and Facilitated

Negotiations

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: What negotiation is — and the two kinds of bargaining; Interests versus positions — and separating people from the problem; Your BATNA, preparation, and listening — the work before the words; Trading, not demanding — options for mutual gain and objective criteria; Ethics — persuasion, pressure, and the lines that do not move; Documenting the agreement — and when negotiation wears a suit: mediation and pleas · Law Enforcement: Negotiation as a police competency — principled, not positional; Interests, options, and criteria at the call — and your BATNA in uniform; Crisis negotiation in outline — time, talk, containment; Ethics on duty — no lies about the law, no manufactured pressure; The plea-bargaining frame — where officers fit, and where they do not

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Difficult counterparts — hard bargainers, high emotion, and the one-text rule; Negotiating with agencies and insurers — records, appeals, and escalation ladders; Multi-party and family negotiations; Plea negotiation from the defense table — reading Frye and Lafler with counsel's file in view

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Negotiation and the written record — emails, summaries, and agreements that survive scrutiny; Cross-cultural and interpreter-assisted negotiation; Crisis negotiation support roles in depth — intelligence, liaison, and the log; Labor and workplace negotiation frameworks in outline

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-back — teach interests vs positions and BATNA to a community class; Mock mediation — a full simulated neighborhood dispute, start to signed summary; Negotiation journal review — audit three of your own past negotiations against the principled framework

Abuse

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth adaptation

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What Abuse Is and Why It Is an Umbrella Term; The Kinds of Abuse Across a Lifetime; Patterns, Cycles, and Why People Stay or Cannot Just Leave; Warning Signs in Adults, Children, Elders, and People With Disabilities; Reporting and Protective Services — How Help Is Asked For; Getting Help, Supporting Someone, and Accountability

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Abuse in Care Settings; Financial Exploitation in Depth; Abuse and Technology; Interviewing and Listening Skills for Helpers; Case Studies in Early Intervention

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Complex Cases Across Systems; Trauma-Informed Support Practice; Court and Agency Processes in Depth; Working With People Who Have Caused Harm

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Community Safety Project; Teaching-Back: Leading an Abuse Awareness Session; Building a Local Resource Map; Mentoring New Learners

Domestic Violence

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth adaptation

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What Domestic Violence and Coercive Control Are; How the Pattern Works — Power, Control, and the Cycle; Safety Planning Before Anything Else; What Happens When Police Are Called; Documentation, Protection Orders, and Leaving Safely; Services, Children, and Life After Leaving

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Stalking Within Domestic Violence; Technology and Smart-Device Abuse; Children Exposed to Violence in Depth; Housing, Money, and Rebuilding After Leaving; Supporting a Friend or Family Member Safely

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): High-Risk Case Recognition; Family Court and Custody Intersections; Working With Advocates and Systems; Accountability Programs and Measuring Change

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Community Safety-Planning Workshop (Teaching-Back); Survivor Support Project; Local Services Audit and Resource Guide; Mentoring New Learners

Violence Awareness

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What Violence Awareness Means; Warning Signs and How Conflict Escalates; Bystander Choices That Are Safe; De-escalation for Everyday People; Grief, Trauma, and Healing After Violence; Prevention and Community Roles

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Online Threats and Rumor Control; Violence in Public Spaces and Events; Youth Violence and School Communities; Media, Grief, and Privacy After Incidents

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Retaliation Cycles and Interruption Models; Threat Assessment Concepts for Communities; Restorative Responses and Repair; Neighborhood Prevention Planning

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Community Prevention Project; Teaching-Back: A Bystander Skills Session; Local Safety Walk and Report; Mentoring New Learners

Protection Orders

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What a Protection Order Is; Who Can Ask and What Kinds Exist in General; How Asking Works, Step by Step; What an Order Can and Cannot Do; Living With an Order — Service, Hearings, and Violations; Safety Alongside the Order

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Orders and Children — Exchanges and School Safety; Orders Across State Lines in Practice; Renewal, Modification, and Ending an Order; Orders in Family Court Cases

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Violations and Criminal Process in Depth; Evidence and Hearing Preparation; Orders for Elders and People With Disabilities; Working With Court Advocates and Legal Aid

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Courthouse Navigation Guide Project; Teaching-Back: Helping a Neighbor Understand Orders; Community Legal-Information Session Support; Mentoring New Learners

Kidnapping Awareness

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth adaptation

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What kidnapping and unlawful restraint mean; Who takes children and adults — family, known people, and strangers; Prevention in everyday life; AMBER Alert and missing-person reports — there is no waiting period; The first hours — what to do step by step; Roles, rights, and support after a report

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): International family abduction and return processes; Missing adults and endangered persons in depth; Working with investigators over a long case; Recovery and reunification support

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Trafficking-related takings and survivor support; Institutional prevention audits for schools and care settings; Media, publicity, and scam protection during a search; Legal remedies and custody enforcement in depth

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Community missing-person readiness project; Teach-back: family safety workshop; Case-study portfolio review; Mentoring new learners through the first-hours kit

Stalking

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth adaptation

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What stalking is — a pattern, not a single act; How stalking works — following, contact, monitoring, and showing up; The law in general — stalking, harassment, and protection orders; Documenting and keeping evidence safely; Safety planning and reporting, step by step; Support, roles, and rights — for the person targeted and people around them

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Technology-facilitated stalking and device safety audits; Stalking by former partners and lethality risk in depth; Protection-order practice: hearings, extensions, and violations; Workplace and campus stalking responses

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Long-case investigation and prosecution files; Stalking in custody and family-court contexts; Digital evidence preservation with platforms; Supporting children exposed to a parent's stalking

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Community stalking-awareness project; Teach-back: documentation and safety-planning workshop; Pattern-file portfolio review; Peer-support and advocacy practicum

Gang Stalking

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What this unit covers — stalking and coordinated harassment; What stalking means under the law, and when more than one person is involved; Patterns people report — and how to look at them carefully; Documenting and keeping evidence that helpers can use; Reporting, protection orders, and safety planning; Getting support — practical help, community, and care for your health

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Coordinated online campaigns and platform evidence; Group liability and joint courses of conduct in depth; Interviewing and report-writing for disputed-meaning events; Health, sleep, and vigilance: long-campaign support planning

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Multi-agency pattern investigations; Workplace coordinated harassment: documentation to resolution; Civil remedies against coordinated campaigns; Community trust and complaint-review processes

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Evidence-file mastery project; Teach-back: respectful response and documentation workshop; Case-study portfolio review; Community support-network building practicum

Harassment

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth adaptation

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What harassment is — and what it is not; Criminal harassment and civil harassment prevention orders in Massachusetts, in general; Harassment at work, at school, and online; Documenting and keeping evidence; Reporting paths, step by step; Roles, rights, responsibilities, and support

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Harassment prevention order hearings in depth; Workplace investigations and discrimination-based harassment; School harassment processes and district escalation; Online harassment: platform legal channels and preservation

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Retaliation claims and remedies; Harassment in housing and public accommodations; Coordinated and organizational harassment campaigns; Speech, protest, and the legal line in hard cases

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Community harassment-response project; Teach-back: documentation and reporting-paths workshop; Pattern-file portfolio review; Workplace or school prevention-plan practicum

Sexual Harassment

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What Sexual Harassment Is; The Law Behind It — Title VII, Title IX, and State Protection in General; How It Works — Settings, Power, and Patterns Step by Step; Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities; Warning Signs and Common Situations; What to Do — Reporting, Records, and Support

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Harassment in Housing and Public Services; Investigations From the Inside — What a Fair One Looks Like; Supporting a Coworker or Student Who Reports; Digital Harassment and Image-Based Abuse at Work and School

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Retaliation Cases in Depth; Institutional Liability and Policy Design; Harassment in Care, Ministry, and Volunteer Settings; Bystander Intervention Training

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Community Workshop — Teaching the Reporting Roadmap; Policy Review Project for a Local Employer or School; Peer Advocate Practicum; Teaching-Back — Learners Present a Harassment-Prevention Session

Cyber Bullying

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth adaptation

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What Cyber Bullying Is; The Law and School and Workplace Rules Behind It; How It Works, Step by Step; Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities; Warning Signs That It Is Escalating; What to Do — Evidence, Reporting, and Support

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Doxxing and Swatting — Privacy Attacks and Safety Planning; Pile-Ons and Coordinated Campaigns; Platform Evidence and Preservation in Depth; Cyber Bullying in Dating and Separated Families

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Image-Based Abuse and Takedown Practice; Workplace Digital Harassment Investigations; School Response Plans and Family Advocacy; Restorative Responses and When They Fit

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Community Workshop — The Evidence-First Plan; Upstander Training Project for a School or Workplace; Family Digital Safety Clinic; Teaching-Back — Learners Lead a Cyber Bullying Prevention Session

Defamation of Character

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What Defamation of Character Is; The Law Behind It — Fact, Opinion, Truth, and Who Is Suing Whom; How a Defamation Case Works, Step by Step; Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities — Speakers, Targets, and Platforms; Warning Signs — Posts and Statements That Create Risk; What to Do — If You Were Harmed, If You Were Accused, and Before You Post

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Reviews, Ratings, and Small-Business Reputations; Defamation and Employment References; Corrections, Retractions, and Repairing a Record; Rumors Inside Institutions — Schools, Workplaces, and Congregations

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Public Officials, Public Figures, and Criticism of Government; Defamation in the Press and in Books; Anti-SLAPP Concepts and Strategic Lawsuits; Reputation Recovery After a False Campaign

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Community Workshop — The Four-Question Pause Before Posting; Reputation First-Aid Clinic for Local Businesses; Media-Literacy Teaching Project; Teaching-Back — Learners Present a Fact-vs-Opinion Session

Impersonating

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth adaptation

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What Impersonating Is; The Law Behind It — Officers, Officials, and Ordinary People; How Impersonation Works, Step by Step; Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities; Warning Signs of a Fake Person or Fake Official; What to Do — Protect Yourself, Preserve Evidence, and Report

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Voice and Video Imitation and Family-Emergency Frauds; Workplace and Executive Impersonation; Impersonation of Agencies — Fake Notices, Citations, and Fund Drives; Recovering a Copied Identity and a Taken-Over Account

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Impersonation Investigations and Pattern Batches; Verification Systems for Businesses and Community Groups; Impersonation Aimed at Children — Prevention in Depth; Platform Identity Enforcement and Appeals

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Community Workshop — Verify Through a Channel You Trust; Senior and Family Verification Clinic; School Fake-Account Response Project; Teaching-Back — Learners Present a Spot-the-Fake Session

Blackmail

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What Blackmail and Extortion Are; The Law Behind It — Threats, Demands, and Sextortion; How Blackmail Works, Step by Step; Roles, Rights, and Responsibilities; Warning Signs and Pressure Tactics; What to Do — Preserve Evidence, Do Not Pay, and Report

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Sextortion Response in Depth — Victim Care and Image Removal; Blackmail Inside Relationships — Coercive Control and Safety Planning; Workplace and Insider Extortion; Extortion Scams Aimed at Elders and Businesses

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Serial Extortion and Multi-Victim Investigations; Financial Tracing and Payment-Channel Disruption; Protective Orders and Civil Tools Alongside the Criminal Case; Supporting a Victim Through a Release That Happened

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Community Workshop — Stop, Preserve, Report, Tell; Victim-Support Practicum With Local Advocates; Family and Congregation Response Project; Teaching-Back — Learners Present a Blackmail-Prevention Session

Homicide

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: What "Homicide" Means — The Umbrella Word; The Sorting Questions — Intent, Malice, Provocation, and Care; The Comparison Map — Murder and Manslaughter Side by Side; What Happens After a Death — Investigation, the Medical Examiner, and the Charging Decision; Families of Victims — Rights and Resources; Reading Homicide News Like a Lawyer — Law Enforcement: The Map You Work Inside — Homicide Is an Umbrella, Not a Charge; First Response — Life, Scene, and Notifications in General; Working With the Medical Examiner — Two Investigations, One Truth; Classification Is the Prosecutor's and the Court's Call — Never the Officer's; Interviewing and Documentation Discipline in Death Investigations; When an Officer's Own Act Causes a Death — The Legal Frame, and Caring for Your Own

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Causation in Depth — Intervening Causes and Hard Chains; The Medical Examiner's System — Autopsy, Toxicology, and Testimony; Grand Jury Practice in Homicide Cases; Cold Cases — Rebuilding Old Files

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Comparative Homicide Laws Across States; Homicide and Mental-State Defenses in Depth; Appellate Review of Homicide Convictions; Mass-Casualty and Multi-Victim Investigations

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach the Map — Leading a Community Homicide-Law Session; Case-Study Portfolio — Classification Exercises With Real (Public) Opinions; Building a Victim-Family Resource Binder for Your Community

Manslaughter

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: Manslaughter in One Sentence — An Unlawful Killing Without Malice; Voluntary Manslaughter — Heat of Passion and Adequate Provocation; Involuntary Manslaughter — Deaths Caused by Failures of Care; The Same Death, Different Charges — How Prosecutors and Juries Decide; Duties, Omissions, and the Williams Lesson — When Doing Nothing Is the Act; Manslaughter in a Life — Consequences and Getting Help Early — Law Enforcement: The Category From the Investigator's Side — A Killing Without Malice; Investigating the Passion Case — Provocation, Sequence, and Cooling Time; Investigating the Care Case — Duties, Standards, and Proximate Cause; Custody Deaths and Duty-of-Care Investigations — When the State Held the Person; Officer-Caused Deaths Revisited — Garner, Force Investigations, and the Manslaughter Question; Interviewing for Mental State — And Writing the File That Classifies Honestly

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Provocation Doctrine Across States — Words, Conduct, and Cooling Time; Vehicular Deaths in Detail — Charging Ladders and Crash Evidence; Caregiver and Custody Duties — Institutional Investigations; Expert Evidence on Perception, Risk, and Reaction

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Corporate and Organizational Manslaughter Questions; Defending and Prosecuting the Care Case — Trial Themes; Sentencing in Manslaughter — Ranges, Mitigation, and Victim Voice; When Manslaughter Meets Regulation — Licensing and Workplace Deaths

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Case-Study Clinics — Williams and the Duty Files; Teaching the Care Standard to Community Groups; Portfolio Review — Investigation Files That Classified Honestly

Murder

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: Murder Defined — An Unlawful Killing With Malice Aforethought; Malice Aforethought in Plain Words; The Degrees — Massachusetts' Three Roads to First Degree, and the Second Degree; Felony Murder — A Death During a Serious Felony, and the Accomplice Problem; Enmund and Tison — The Constitutional Line on Punishing Accomplices; Defenses and Boundaries in Outline — And What Families Should Know — Law Enforcement: The Legal Target — Malice, Proved as Fact; Investigating Premeditation — Planning, Motive, and Manner as Evidence; Degrees From the Investigator's Chair — What the Jury Will Be Asked; Felony Murder Investigations — Documenting the Web of Participants; Interviewing for Intent — And Protecting the Case From Its Own Publicity; Officer-Caused Deaths and the Murder Question — Garner's Frame, Honestly Applied

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Premeditation Evidence in Depth — Timelines From Records; Felony-Murder Limits State by State; Multi-Defendant Trials — Severance, Statements, and Strategy; The Death-Penalty Framework After Enmund and Tison

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Extreme Atrocity or Cruelty — The Massachusetts Doctrine in the Cases; Transferred Intent and Multiple Victims; Appeals in Capital and Life-Sentence Cases; Murder Investigations Across Jurisdictions — Federal and State Together

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach the Degrees — A Community Jury-Education Session; Case-Study Portfolio — Enmund/Tison Measurement Exercises; Mentoring New Investigators Through a Murder File

Hazing and Prevention

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth (Youth adaptation: belonging without harm — pressure tactics, exit plans and code words, tell an adult; law in general terms)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: What hazing is — humiliation or endangerment as the price of belonging; Why "tradition" and "consent" do not make it safe or lawful; The Massachusetts anti-hazing law — sections 17, 18, and 19; School policies and the federal campus-reporting frame; Bystander duties — what to do at the scene and after it; Refusing, reporting, and what victims and families can do · Law Enforcement: What hazing is — the conduct you are actually looking at; The Massachusetts statute — §§ 17, 18, 19 and the officer's map; Hazing versus assault — and the other charges in the same conduct; Reports, institutions, and investigations in general; The school resource role — prevention from inside the building · Youth: What hazing is — the price-of-belonging test; Pressure tactics — how "choice" gets manufactured; The law in general — it is a crime, and witnesses must report; Refusing and getting out — a plan beats a moment; Protecting friends — the bystander's job

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Institutional liability after Furek — foreseeability, control, and enforcement failures; Hazing in workplaces and the military — reporting channels outside student law; Interviewing inside group loyalty — victims, organizers, and § 18 witnesses; Designing initiations that build belonging without harm

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): The civil case law beyond Furek — institutional and organizational defendants; Federal transparency data — reading a Campus Hazing Transparency Report critically; Organizational culture and the victim-to-organizer cycle; Restorative and educational responses alongside discipline

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-back — teach the §§ 17–19 duties to a team, troop, or workplace crew; Audit project — review a school's published hazing policy and reports against § 19 and the Stop Campus Hazing Act; Prevention plan — write an intake-season plan for a real organization, reviewed by its leadership

Active Shooter Awareness Training

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth (Youth adaptation: official school-safety framing for students — listen to adults, get away as directed, report concerns; no tactical detail)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: What this training is — and what it is not; Awareness before anything happens — exits, attention, and reporting what worries you; Run — the first option, whenever it is open; Hide — when running is not possible; Fight — the last resort only, and what to expect when police arrive; After — safety first, care for the injured, reunification, and recovery · Law Enforcement: The public's plan is part of your plan — Run, Hide, Fight from the receiving side; Prevention is a patrol function — threat assessment, reporting channels, and trust; The facility partnership — emergency action plans you will one day work inside; The first hour after — safety, the reunification point, and victim care; Documentation, communication, and the long investigation; Recovery — the community's, and yours · Youth: Why schools have a plan — and why your part is simple; Tell — the job that can prevent the whole day; Listen and move — if there is danger at school; Reuniting and the days after

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Workplace emergency action plans in depth — building one with CISA's template; Houses of worship and healthcare settings — sector-specific official guidance; Behavioral threat assessment teams — how they work and what happens to a report; Recovery leadership — memorials, anniversaries, and reopening a facility

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Training others — teaching the public curriculum faithfully, without tactical drift; Accessibility in emergency planning — access and functional needs as design, not exception; After-action reviews — reading official incident reports for planning lessons; Community resilience after mass violence — the long support role

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-back — deliver the Adult unit's curriculum to a community group using only official materials; Plan practicum — draft a complete emergency action plan for a real facility, reviewed against the ISC guide; Partnership audit — assess one facility partnership in your area and write its improvement plan

Dealing With Attacks in Various Fields

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult — "Dealing With Attacks in Various Fields — Recognizing an Attack, Lowering the Temperature, and Answering With Documentation Instead of Impulse": Part 1. What counts as an attack — and what does not / Part 2. Verbal attacks — recognition and de-escalation / Part 3. Attacks at work and in public life / Part 4. Online and reputational attacks / Part 5. Physical-attack awareness — recognition, escape, and aftermath / Part 6. Documentation, reporting, and legal remedies in outline · Law Enforcement — "Dealing With Attacks in Various Fields — When the Target Is the Officer: Law in Outline, De-escalation Under Provocation, and Care After the Incident": Part 1. Attacks on officers and public servants — the landscape / Part 2. The law in outline — what the statutes actually cover / Part 3. De-escalation when you are the target / Part 4. Documentation that holds up / Part 5. Reporting, charging referrals, and the victim-officer / Part 6. After the incident — support, recovery, and command responsibilities

Years 2–4 (planned): Year 2 — Workplace Patterns: Investigations, Findings, and Remedies · Year 2 — Online Reputation Defense: Platforms, Preservation, and Counsel · Year 3 — Public Roles Under Fire: Ministers, Officials, and Organizers · Year 4 — Capstone: Document and Route a Full Simulated Attack Campaign

Keeping Yourself Safe Without Weapons, Without Insults, Without Harm

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: Why insults and threats escalate — safety as a dignity-preserving practice; NOTICE — situational awareness as a calm habit; KEEP DISTANCE — barriers, exits, and being followed; USE YOUR VOICE — calling for help, and de-escalation word by word; MOVE TO PEOPLE — bystander safety and safe havens; GET HELP — and what comes after; THE TRADITIONS — nonviolence as a practiced discipline · Law Enforcement: Why dignity is a safety practice — the escalation cycle and the professional sequence; De-escalation as a published professional standard — PERF, CIT, and the COPS Office; Communication at word level — voice, language, listening, and exits; Time and distance — tactics of restraint, and managing the scene; Special encounters — crisis, intoxication, youth, elders, disability, language, and crowds; Officer safety, stated honestly — what this method can and cannot do; After the encounter — documentation, the camera, referrals, and review · Youth: Why insults make things worse — and the sequence that protects you; NOTICE — paying attention early; MOVE AWAY — distance is protection; USE YOUR VOICE — loud for help, calm to cool things down; SAFE PEOPLE AND SAFE PLACES — build your network before you need it; TELLING AND AFTER — keep telling until someone acts; Nonviolence is strength

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): De-escalation practice in depth — structured role-play of the school's scripts for home, work, transit, and worship settings; Bystander intervention training — the 5Ds practiced, with the Document consent discipline in full; Safety planning for households and elders — routes, check-ins, and safe-haven maps as a family project; Mediation skills I — listening, interests, and running a calm first conversation (bridge to the Negotiations topic)

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Community nonviolence programs studied closely — violence interrupters, mediation centers, and what their evaluations honestly show; De-escalation in institutions — schools, hospitals, and service counters, and the policies that support it; Crisis communication at scale — crowds, public meetings, and online pile-ons without escalation; Procedural justice in practice (LE) — measuring dignity in encounters and reading a department's own data

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-back — teach the NOTICE → DISTANCE → VOICE → PEOPLE → HELP sequence to a community group, congregation, or class; Community safety project — build a safe-haven and escort map for a real neighborhood, with the businesses and institutions named in it; Practicum review — document three real de-escalations from your own life or duty log against this topic's method and the defense-course doctrine, and write what the record teaches

Fraud

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What Fraud Is — Deception for Gain; Anatomy of a Scheme — Hook, Trust, Pressure, Payment; How Fraud Reaches You — Phone, Text, Email, Mail, and In Person; Fraud, Mistake, or Bad Deal — Telling the Difference; Warning Signs — The Red Flags That Show Up Again and Again; If It Happens — Stop, Report, and Recover Step by Step

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Impersonation in Depth — Agencies, Banks, and Family Emergencies; Romance and Relationship Schemes; Charity and Disaster Fraud; Fraud Against Elders and Caregivers' Roles

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Organized Fraud Rings and Victim Lists; Fraud in Contracts and Home Repair; Workplace and Insider Fraud; Working With Investigators as a Victim or Witness

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Community Fraud-Prevention Workshop (teach-back project); Build a Family Verification Plan; Case-Study Portfolio — Reading Real Scheme Patterns; Training a Neighborhood or Congregation Team

Financial Fraud

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What Financial Fraud Is; Bank, Card, and Check Fraud — In General; Investment and Crypto Schemes — Consumer-Alert Level; Money Mules — Being Used Is Still Participation; Payment Red Flags — Wires, Gift Cards, and Urgency; Working With Your Bank and Recovering

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Debit vs Credit — How Protections Differ in Practice; Check Fraud in Depth — Mail Theft and Washed Checks; Reading an Investment Offer With an Advisor; Helping a Family Member Out of a Mule Arrangement

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Business and Payroll Fraud Patterns; Real-Estate and Closing-Wire Fraud; Crypto Recovery Realities and Case Studies; Coordinating Bank, Police, and Federal Reports

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Personal Financial-Fraud Audit (project); Teach the Payment Red Flags to a Community Group; Loss-Documentation Portfolio; Serving as a Fraud-Intake Volunteer

Identity Theft

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What Identity Theft Is; How Identities Get Stolen; Warning Signs — At Home, in Mail, and on Your Accounts; Children, Medical Records, and Other Often-Missed Forms; Freezes, Fraud Alerts, and Reports; The Recovery Plan — Step by Step

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Tax Identity Theft in Depth; Correcting a Contaminated Medical Record; Known-Suspect Identity Theft — Family Cases; Protecting a Deceased Loved One's Identity

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Criminal Identity Theft — Clearing a Wrong Record; Employment and Benefits Identity Misuse; Long-Term Monitoring and Re-Dispute Strategy; Identity Theft in Court and Restitution

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Household Identity-Protection Plan (project); Guiding Another Family Through the FTC Plan (supervised teach-back); Children's Identity Check Clinic; Recovery Portfolio and Timeline Review

Credit Reporting

Schools: Adult only (Law Enforcement: cross-reference only)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What Credit Reports and Scores Are; The Three Bureaus and Getting Your Free Reports; Reading Your Report Line by Line; Errors and Disputes — What Happens Next; Freezes and Alerts — A Brief Cross-Reference; Credit Repair Scams and Building Credit in General

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Specialty Reports — Tenant, Employment, and Banking Histories; Scores in Depth — What Different Models Reward; Disputes That Stall — Escalation and Complaints; Credit After Bankruptcy and Hardship, in General

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Merged Files and Mixed Identities; Credit Rights in Housing and Employment Screening; Helping an Adult Child or Elder Read a Report; When to Bring a Consumer-Protection Lawyer In

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Annual Report Review Ritual (project); Teach a Neighbor to Pull and Read a Report (teach-back); Building-Credit Plan Portfolio; Community Credit-Clinic Support Role

Housing Fraud

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What Housing Fraud Is — and What It Is Not; How the Common Schemes Work; Warning Signs and Red Flags; Your Rights as a Tenant, Buyer, and Homeowner; What to Do Step by Step if You Suspect Fraud; Reporting, Recovery, and Protecting Your Home Going Forward

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Reading a Lease Line by Line; The Registry of Deeds in Depth; Working With Legal Aid and Housing Courts; Voucher Programs From the Inside

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Clearing a Forged Title; Mortgage Workouts and Loss Mitigation; Pattern Cases and Multi-Victim Investigations; Fair Housing Complaints in Practice

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Tenant Education Workshop (teaching-back project); Community Listing-Verification Drive; A Family Housing Documents Audit; Mentoring New Renters Through a Safe Search

Medical Fraud

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What Medical Fraud Is — and What It Is Not; How the Common Schemes Work; Warning Signs and Red Flags; Your Rights as a Patient and Benefits Member; Reading Your Explanation of Benefits and What to Do Step by Step; Reporting, Recovery, and Protecting Your Health Identity

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Medicare and Medicaid Statements in Depth; Correcting a Contaminated Medical Record; Comparing Real Coverage to Discount Products; Helping Elders Review Their Statements

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Following a Fraud Case From Report to Investigation; Pharmacy and Equipment Billing Patterns; Appeals That Win: Building the Paper Trail; Privacy Rights and Health Information Complaints

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Family EOB Review Circle (teaching-back project); Community Card-Safety Presentation; A Household Health-Identity Audit; Guiding a Victim Through Full Recovery

School Fraud

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What School Fraud Is — and What It Is Not; How the Common Schemes Work; Warning Signs and Red Flags; Rights of Students and Families; What to Do Step by Step if You Suspect Fraud; Reporting, Recovery, and Protecting Your Education

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Accreditation and Licensing in Depth; Reading an Enrollment Contract and Aid Letter; Enrollment Rights for Families in Temporary Housing; Closed-School and Borrower Relief Processes

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): How Aid Investigations Work; Verifying Credentials as an Employer; Residency Cases: District Practice and Appeals; Organized Aid Rings and Recruitment Patterns

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): College-Choice Verification Workshop (teaching-back project); A Family Education Documents Audit; Mentoring a First-Generation Applicant; Community Diploma-Mill Awareness Drive

Work Fraud

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What Work Fraud Is — and What It Is Not; How the Common Schemes Work; Warning Signs and Red Flags; Your Rights as a Worker; What to Do Step by Step if You Suspect Fraud; Reporting, Recovery, and Protecting Your Pay and Benefits

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Reading Pay Stubs and Time Records in Depth; Classification: Employee or Contractor?; Filing a Wage Claim Step by Step; Unemployment Claims, Appeals, and Identity Theft

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Workplace-Wide Wage Investigations; Workers' Compensation Disputes in Practice; Retaliation: Documenting and Reporting It; Organized Benefit-Fraud Rings

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Know-Your-Pay Community Workshop (teaching-back project); A Personal Pay-Record System Build; Mentoring a New Worker Through a Wage Complaint; Job-Scam Awareness Drive for Job Seekers

Family Fraud

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What Family Fraud Is; How It Works — Pressure, Access, and Secrecy; Warning Signs Inside a Family; Your Rights and the Paper That Protects You; What to Do, Step by Step; Reporting, Recovery, and Repairing Family Ties

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Capacity, Consent, and the Hard Conversations; Wills, Deeds, and Beneficiary Changes Under the Microscope; Caregiver Fraud and Paid-Help Oversight; Family Meetings and Mediation That Protect Elders

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Building a Case File a Prosecutor Can Use; Guardianship, Conservatorship, and Court Protections in General; Multi-Sibling Disputes and Restoring Stolen Assets; Interviewing Vulnerable Victims with Care (LE)

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-Back: Lead a Family Fraud Prevention Night; Community Project: An Elder Paperwork Clinic; Capstone Case Study: From First Report to Recovery Plan

Community Fraud

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What Community Fraud Is; Fake Charities and Fundraisers Gone Wrong; Door-to-Door, Neighborhood, and Contractor Schemes; Trust in Faith and Community Spaces; Warning Signs and Your Rights as a Giver and Buyer; What to Do, Reporting, and How Communities Protect Each Other

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Disaster Fraud and Storm-Chasing Crews; Online Fundraising and Social-Media Charity Scams; Protecting Congregations: Safeguards for Money Handlers; Contractor Licensing, Contracts, and Disputes in Depth

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Pattern Investigations Across Neighborhoods and Towns (LE); Romance and Trust-Based Schemes in Community Life; Organizing a Community Verification Network; Working with Prosecutors and Charity Regulators

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-Back: Run a Charity-Checking Workshop; Community Project: A Neighborhood Fraud-Warning System; Capstone Case Study: Anatomy of a Traveling Crew

Racketeering and RICO

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement — no Youth unit (stated plainly, per the brief)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: What "Racketeering" Means — and Why Congress Wrote a New Kind of Law; The Law Itself — 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961–1968, Piece by Piece; The Building Blocks — Enterprise, Pattern, and Predicate Acts; Two Courtrooms — Criminal RICO and Civil RICO; How a RICO Case Is Built and Defended — In Outline; What RICO Is Not — Guardrails, State "Little RICO" Laws, and the Massachusetts Fact · Law Enforcement: Why RICO Exists — The Enforcement Problem Congress Answered; The Elements as an Investigative Framework — Enterprise, Pattern, Predicates; The Three Cases That Frame the Law — Turkette, H.J. Inc., and Sedima; Criminal and Civil RICO — Where Officers and Agencies Fit; Forfeiture — Taking the Profit Out, in Outline; Guardrails, Criticism, and Limits — Including the Massachusetts Fact

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): The Predicate Catalog — Reading § 1961(1) Closely; Enterprise After Turkette — Later Cases on Structure and Distinctness; Civil RICO Practice — Pleading, Defenses, and the Business-Dispute Debate; State Little RICO Statutes Compared — Three States Side by Side

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): RICO and Public Corruption — Bribery Patterns in Real Cases; RICO, Gangs, and the Enterprise Question — Law and Criticism; Forfeiture in Depth — Criminal vs. Civil Systems and Innocent Owners; RICO's International Reach — Foreign Enterprises and U.S. Courts

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): The Elements Audit — Testing a Real (Published) RICO Opinion Against the Four Building Blocks; Case-File Studio — Building a Classroom Referral Memo from Public Records; Teach-Back — RICO Without the Headlines: The Law, the Cases, the Limits

Cyber Security Awareness

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth adaptation (cyber security awareness only)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What Cyber Security Awareness Means for Everyday Life; Passwords and Passphrases That Hold; Two-Factor Authentication and Account Recovery; Phishing — Fake Messages and Fake Sites; Updates, Public Wi-Fi, and Backups; If Something Goes Wrong — Contain, Report, Recover

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Identity Theft Warning Signs and Credit Protection; Privacy Settings and What You Share Without Knowing; Safe Online Shopping, Banking, and Telehealth Habits; Voice Clones, Video Fakes, and the New Impersonation

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Securing a Household: Family Accounts, Kids, and Elders; Small Business and Ministry Office Security on a Budget; Incident Timelines and Working with Investigators (LE); Scam Operations: How Call Centers and Scripts Are Built

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-Back: Lead a Community Password and Phishing Clinic; Community Project: A Senior-Center Security Help Desk; Capstone Case Study: One Household's Full Recovery

Hackers

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What a Hacker Is — and Is Not; Common Attack Patterns, in Plain Words; Why Homes, Businesses, and Public Systems Get Targeted; Warning Signs an Account or Device Has Been Touched; The Law in General and Careers in Defense; Protecting Yourself and Helping After an Incident

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Ransomware in Depth: Prevention, Response, and the Payment Question; Social Engineering: The Human Side of Every Breach; How Data Breaches Unfold and What Notices Really Mean; The Researcher's World: Responsible Disclosure and Bug Bounties

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Incident Response for Small Organizations; Digital Evidence and the Chain of Custody (LE); State-Backed Actors and Critical Infrastructure in Plain Words; Building a Defense Career: Pathways, Certifications, and Ethics

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-Back: A Hackers Myth-Busting Session for Your Community; Community Project: Tabletop Incident Exercise for a Local Organization; Capstone Case Study: Mentoring Talent to the Consent Side of the Line

Social Media Crimes and Prevention and Laws

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: Where this unit begins — ground already covered, ground that is new; Five offenses — threats, campaigns, doxxing, swatting, sextortion; Preserving evidence — the skill that decides cases; The laws that reach the screen — federal and Massachusetts; The First Amendment borders — Elonis, Counterman, Packingham; Prevention and reporting — the working routine · Law Enforcement: The intake reality — screens, patterns, and frightened people; Preservation — directing the save before the platform deletes; Fitting facts to laws — the charging map in outline; The constitutional borders your report must respect; Swatting and sextortion — the two calls that cannot wait; Documentation, follow-through, and the victim's next month · Youth: This unit starts where two others end; Threats and pile-ons — when words become crimes; Doxxing and swatting — two crimes that leave the screen; Sextortion — a crime done TO a young person, never their fault; Your protection plan — settings, saving, orders, adults

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Coordinated Campaigns — Networks, Amplification, and Attribution at Survey Level; Platform Process — Legal Requests, Preservation Letters, and Timelines (Law Enforcement); Sextortion Prevention Programs — Schools, Families, and Platforms; Civil Remedies in Depth — Orders, Damages, and Removal

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Speech Doctrine in Depth — Threats, Incitement, and Harassment After Counterman; Interstate and International Dimensions of Online Crime; Victim Advocacy in Online-Crime Cases; Policy and Prevention Design for Communities

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Mock Intake and Preservation Exercise (Practicum); Teach-Back — A Family's Online-Safety and Evidence Class; Prevention Portfolio — A Reporting-and-Response Plan for a Real Community; Community Application — Present the Protection Plan to a School or Congregation

Parenting

Schools: Adult (Law Enforcement: cross-reference only)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Parenting Across Ages and Stages — One Map; Discipline and Punishment — The Difference in Daily Life; Supervision by Age — Freedom Earned in Steps; Talking, Listening, and Staying Connected as Children Grow; Co-Parenting After Separation — The Child Stays at the Center; Parenting With a Record or an Open Case; Asking for Help Early Is Strength

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Parenting Children With Special Needs and Disabilities; Blended Families and Step-Parenting; Parenting Through Grief, Illness, and Family Change; Culture, Faith, and Family Values in Daily Parenting

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Parenting Teenagers Through High-Risk Seasons; Advocating for Your Child in School and Medical Systems; Repairing Trust After Serious Family Rupture; Parenting Adult Children and Grandparenting

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Build a Family Handbook for Your Own Home; Teach a Parenting Workshop in Your Community; Mentor a New Parent Through a Hard First Year; Family Strengths Project — Documenting What Works

Child Support

Schools: Adult (Law Enforcement: cross-reference only)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What Child Support Is — and Whose Right It Is; Who Pays, Who Receives, and How Parentage Fits; How an Order Is Established, in General; How Amounts Are Decided — Guidelines in Concept; Paying, Receiving, and Keeping Records; When Life Changes — Modification; When Support Is Not Paid — Enforcement and Arrears, in General

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Support Across State Lines; Self-Employment, Irregular Income, and Honest Reporting; Support and Public Benefits — How They Interact; Arrears Repayment Plans and Getting Current

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Support in High-Conflict Cases; Support, Incarceration, and Reentry; College-Age Children and Extended Support Questions; When a Parent Dies — Support, Benefits, and the Child's Rights

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Prepare a Complete Modification Packet From Your Own Records; Teach a Community Session on Filing Early; Records Audit Project — Rebuilding a Family Payment File; Peer Guide — Walking a New Parent Through the Agency Door

DCF — Department of Children and Families

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult — What DCF Is — and What It Is Not; Reports and Screening — How a Case Begins; Investigations and Family Assessments — What Workers Look For; Service Plans, Ongoing Cases, and Working With Your Social Worker; Foster Care, Kinship Care, and Placement, in General; DCF and Family Court — How the Two Connect; Parents' Rights and Responsibilities — and How a Case Closes; Law Enforcement — Why Officers and DCF Need Each Other; Mandated Reporting — Your Duty in General; Joint Responses — Who Leads What on Scene; Information Sharing — What Flows and What Stays Protected, in General; What to Expect From DCF — and What DCF Needs From You; Placement and Court — Your Supporting Role, in General; After the Call — Documentation, Follow-Up, and Trust

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Adult — Appeals, Grievances, and Fair Hearings in Depth; Kinship Caregiving as a Family Role; LE — Interviewing Children Alongside Specialists; Joint Planning With Schools, Hospitals, and Courts

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Adult — Permanency Options Beyond Reunification; Adoption and Guardianship From Care; LE — Child Fatality and Serious Injury Response Coordination; Testifying in Child-Welfare Proceedings

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Adult — Family Story Project — Documenting a Case From Report to Closure; Community Resource Map for Families in the System; LE — Agency Liaison Practicum — Building a Local Coordination Protocol; Teach-Back — Training Peers on the Police–Agency Seam

The Attorney General's Office

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: Two Attorneys General, One Mistake to Avoid; What the Massachusetts AG's Office Actually Does; How the Office Is Put Together; How a Person Actually Uses the Office; What the Office Cannot and Will Not Do; When the AG and Other Offices Overlap · Law Enforcement: The Office on the Map; Referrals — Sending a Case Up Well; Joint Work — Task Forces and Attached Units; Two Portfolios Officers Actually Feed; When the AG Looks at Government Itself; The Officer's Professional Frame

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Consumer Enforcement in Depth: Investigations, Assurances, and Litigation; Medicaid Fraud and Healthcare Enforcement

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Civil Rights Enforcement: Patterns, Consent Judgments, and Monitoring; AG Offices Compared: Elected and Appointed Models Across the States

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Capstone: Building a Complete Referral File a Prosecutor Can Act On

The Better Business Bureau

Schools: Adult only — a private consumer institution; no Law Enforcement version, stated plainly in the entry

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): The First Thing to Know: It Is Not the Government; What the BBB Actually Is; Ratings and Accreditation — What They Do and Do Not Mean; Complaints, Mediation, and Arbitration — What the BBB Actually Does With a Problem; What the BBB Cannot Do, and Where Real Power Lives; Using the BBB Well

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Reading a Business Like an Investigator: Records, Reviews, and Red Flags; Dispute Resolution Compared: BBB Processes, Small Claims, and Regulators

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Marketplace Fraud Patterns: The Schemes the Trackers See First

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Capstone: Vet Five Real Businesses and Defend Each Verdict

The State Department

Schools: Adult only — citizen services with no separate Law Enforcement track in this library, stated plainly in the entry

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What the Department Is — and the Twin It Is Not; Passports — The Part Almost Everyone Uses; Embassies, Consulates, and Help Abroad; Visas and the Door In; What the Department Cannot Do — Said Plainly; Using the Department Well

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Travel Readiness: Documents, Advisories, and Country Information; Crises Abroad: Deaths, Arrests, and Evacuations Step by Step

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): The Visa System in Depth: Categories, Interviews, and Refusals

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Capstone: Build a Complete Travel-and-Emergency File for a Family Trip

The Board of Health

Schools: Adult only — resident-facing local health authority; its law-enforcement intersections are covered in the AG and State-vs-City units, stated plainly in the entry

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What a Board of Health Is; The Daily Work — Food, Housing, Nuisance, Disease; The State Sanitary Code — The Rulebook Above Every Board; Inspections vs Enforcement — How a Complaint Actually Moves; Filing a Complaint — and What to Expect After; Board, Department, AG, or Court — Sorting a Problem

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Housing Health in Depth: The 105 CMR 410 Standards Owners and Tenants Live Under; Food Safety Systems: From Inspection Grades to Outbreak Response

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Environmental Health: Water, Septic, Lead, and Air

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Capstone: Prepare a Complete Board Complaint File, Inspection to Resolution

State Government vs City Government and Districts and Ranks

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: The Federal Baseline in One Part; Massachusetts State Government — The Sovereign Level Here; County Government in Massachusetts — The Honest Version; City and Town Government — Where Most Problems Live; Districts — A Boundary Drawn for One Job; Ranks — Why the Ladder Picture Fails, and What Replaces It · Law Enforcement: The Federal Baseline — What Washington May and May Not Do; Massachusetts State Government — The Level That Constitutes Yours; County Government in Massachusetts — Officers Without a County Government; City and Town Government — Your Employer's Constitution; Districts and Special Jurisdictions — The Overlapping Map On Shift; Mutual Aid, Lanes, and Who Investigates What

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Preemption in Practice: When State and Federal Law Override the Local Rule; The Money Map: Budgets, Grants, and Conditions Between Levels

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Regionalism: Shared Services, Regional Districts, and Interlocal Agreements; Courts as Referees: The Cases That Redrew the Lines

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Capstone: Map and Defend the Complete Jurisdiction Chart for One Real Community

Social Security

Schools: Adult only

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What Social Security Is — Insurance, Not Welfare; The Programs — Retirement, Disability, Survivors, and SSI; The Number, the Card, and How Benefits Are Earned; Applying — and the Appeal Ladder, in Step Order; The Hearing Ladder and Two Court Cases — Before Benefits End, or After?; Representative Payees, Overpayments, and Scams

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Disability Claims in Depth — Evidence That Decides; Retirement Claiming Ages and Household Records; Survivors and Family Benefits in Depth; SSI Rules — Income, Resources, and Reporting; Working While Receiving Benefits

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Hearings Before the Administrative Law Judge, in Depth; Overpayment Waivers and Appeals, Clause by Clause; Representative Payee Duties and Audits; Social Security and Taxes Together; Case Studies — Goldberg, Mathews, and Their Progeny

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Community Benefits-Navigation Workshop (with legal aid partners); Learner Portfolio — A Claim File Built Correctly; Teaching-Back Session on the Appeal Ladder; A Plain-Language Social Security Guide for Your Neighborhood

Taxes

Schools: Adult only

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What Taxes Are, and the Main Kinds; Two Agencies — the IRS and the Massachusetts Department of Revenue; The Yearly Rhythm — Documents, Filing, Refunds; If You Cannot Pay — the Calm, Real Options; Audits in Outline, and the Taxpayer Bill of Rights; Scams, Preparer Fraud, and the Records to Keep

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Reading a Pay Stub and a W-2, Line by Line; Credits and Subtractions in Plain Language; Self-Employment and Gig Income Records; Massachusetts Taxes in Depth; Notices Decoded — What Each Letter Asks

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Examinations and Appeals, in Depth; Offers in Compromise and Hardship Routes; Preparer Standards and Taxpayer Responsibility; Tax Fraud vs. Error — the Willfulness Line; Teaching the Yearly Rhythm

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Community Free-Filing (VITA-Style) Workshop Partnership; Learner Portfolio — A Complete Tax-Year Folder, Reviewed; Teaching-Back Session on the Ten Rights; A Plain-Language Tax Calendar for Your Household

Dealing With Bureaucracy

Schools: Adult only — civic navigation of notices, benefits, and agency appeals is an adult-life skill set, and this library teaches its law-enforcement intersections inside the offices and government units instead; stated plainly.

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult — "Dealing With Bureaucracy — Reading the Notice, Keeping the Deadline, and Climbing the Ladder Until the Right Desk Answers": Part 1. What bureaucracy actually is — and why it feels the way it does / Part 2. Reading a notice like a professional / Part 3. Deadlines, appeals, and the ladder inside one agency / Part 4. Documenting every interaction — your paper shield / Part 5. Ombudsmen, advocates, and verified help channels / Part 6. Respectful persistence — and knowing which door is next

Years 2–4 (planned): Year 2 — Benefits Appeals in Depth: Building the Hearing Record · Year 2 — Public Records Practice: Requests, Fees, and Exemptions · Year 3 — Licensing and Permits: Navigating the Regulated Doors · Year 4 — Capstone: Carry One Real Matter From Notice to Resolution

Counseling vs Therapy

Schools: Adult only

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Counseling and therapy — overlapping words, different jobs; The medical and doctoral roles — psychiatrist and psychologist; The master's-level licensed therapists; Focused, school, faith, peer, and coordinating roles; Confidentiality, privilege, and the limits a provider must explain; Choosing well — fit, cost, and checking a license

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Treatment Approaches in Plain Language — Talk, Behavioral, and Family Work; Group, Family, and Couples Sessions — How They Differ; Telehealth Therapy — Privacy, Fit, and Limits; When Therapy Is Not Helping — Second Opinions and Changing Providers

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Privilege and Records in Court in Depth; Mandated Reporting Across Settings; Integrated Care — When Medical and Therapy Teams Work as One; Ethics Complaints and Licensing Boards, Step by Step

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Build a Verified Local Provider Guide; Teach-Back — Titles, Scope, and How to Check a License; Interview a Clinician About Confidentiality and Its Limits (community project)

Addictions

Schools: Adult · Youth adaptation (prevention)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: What a substance use disorder is; Substance categories at an educational level — and the body's responses; Risk factors and signs people can notice; Status is not a crime; acts can be — what two Supreme Court cases teach; Stigma, family, and what actually helps a person start; Recovery is a process — and relapse is information, not failure · Youth: What a substance use disorder is — in plain words; Why a growing brain needs extra protection; Pressure is real — refusal skills that actually work; Signs a friend may need help — and how to help; Trusted adults, privacy, and the law in general; Building a life that protects you

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Co-Occurring Disorders in Depth; Medication Treatment for Substance Use Disorders, in General; Family Recovery — Boundaries, Support, and Caregiver Health; Youth: Vaping, Alcohol, and Cannabis — A Deeper Prevention Year

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Addiction Policy — Treatment, Courts, and Public Health; Overdose Prevention and Community Response, in General; Recovery in Housing, Work, and Custody Cases; Youth: Media, Marketing, and Substance Pressure Online

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Community Resource Binder for Families; Teach-Back — Status vs Acts, With Robinson and Powell; A Family's First-Call Plan, Reviewed With a Local Program

Rehabs

Schools: Adult only

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What a rehabilitation program is; The levels of care — the continuum in plain words; How a person gets in — assessment, intake, and first days; Paying for care — insurance, MassHealth, and free and public options; Rights inside a program — and how to spot a predatory one; Aftercare, family help, and relapse as part of recovery

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Residential Life in Detail — Rules, Family Contact, and Complaints; Recovery Housing and Sober Living, in General; Paying in Detail — Authorizations, Appeals, and Bills; Choosing a Program — A Verified Comparison Method

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Patient Brokering and Rehab Fraud in Depth; Court-Ordered and Voluntary Programs Compared; Programs for Parents, Workers, and People With Co-Occurring Conditions; Quality Measures — How Outcomes Are Reported

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Build a Vetted Local Program Directory; Teach-Back — Levels of Care for Families; Aftercare Plan Workshop (community application)

Detox

Schools: Adult only

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What detoxification is — and what it is not; Why some withdrawals need medical supervision — stated plainly; Where detox happens — hospital, facility, and outpatient with oversight; What monitoring and medication mean — in general categories only; Rights during detox — consent, privacy, and voluntary and involuntary care; After detox — the handoff that decides whether detox mattered

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Withdrawal Risk Assessment, in General — What Clinicians Weigh; Detox for Co-Occurring Medical and Mental Health Needs; From Detox to Medication Treatment — Continuity of Care; Family Roles During a Detox Stay

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Detox Settings and Licensing in Massachusetts in Depth; When a Person Leaves Early — Safety Planning and Re-Engagement; Detox Records, Privacy, and Court Orders; Quality and Safety — Reading a Facility's Public Record

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): A Family's Detox Decision Guide (community project); Teach-Back — Why Detox Is a Medical First Step; Handoff Checklist Review With a Local Provider

The Intake Process in All Roles

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: What Intake Is — the First Door, in Every System; The Medical and Behavioral-Health Door, Step by Step; The Criminal-Justice Door — Booking and Classification in Outline; The Government and Agency Door — Benefits and Eligibility; Your Rights at Every Door; Getting Ready — What to Bring, What to Ask, and What a No Means · Law Enforcement: Intake From the Officer's Side — Why the First Hour Matters; Booking, Step by Step — Identification, Property, and Paperwork; Medical and Mental-Health Screening — a Duty of Care; Classification — Housing and Safety Decisions in Outline; Dignity, Privacy, and Language Access at Intake; Handoffs — Court, Medical Care, and the Record You Leave

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Reading an Assessment Like a Professional; Benefits Files in Detail — Documents That Decide; Classification Reviews and Grievances in Practice; Interpreter-Mediated Intake — Working the Three-Way Conversation

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): When Doors Collide — One Person, Three Intakes at Once; Intake Errors and Their Remedies, Case-Study Style; Designing a Fair Intake — Auditing a System's Front Door; Privacy Failures at Intake and What Follows

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Community Intake-Readiness Workshop (Teaching-Back); Build a Personal Intake Folder System for Your Household; Shadow-and-Report: A Resident's Guide to Local Intake Doors; Mentoring New Learners Through Their First Applications

Inpatient and Outpatient

Schools: Adult (Law Enforcement: cross-reference only, via The Intake Process in All Roles and Voluntary vs Involuntary)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): One System, Many Intensities — the Continuum of Care; Inpatient and Residential — Care Around the Clock; The Middle Levels — Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient; Standard Outpatient — Care Woven Into Ordinary Life; How the Level Is Chosen — Assessment, Safety, and Moving Between Levels; Rights, Cost in General, and Questions to Ask Any Program

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Discharge Planning in Detail — The First Week Home; Medication Management Across Levels; Telehealth Outpatient Care — Strengths and Limits; Fighting a Level Decision — Reviews and Second Opinions

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Co-Occurring Disorders Across the Continuum; When the Right Level Has No Bed — Systems Under Strain; Community Placement After Olmstead — Plans, Waits, and Rights; Comparing State Systems of Care

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Family Navigator Project — A Local Levels-of-Care Guide; Teaching-Back: Explaining the Continuum to a Support Group; Program-Visit Portfolio — Three Levels Observed and Compared; Mentoring a Family Through a Step-Down

Voluntary vs Involuntary

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: Two Doors Into Care — Choosing, and Being Brought; Voluntary Care — What You Agree to, and How Leaving Works; Emergency Holds — the Short Door; Court Commitment — §§ 7 and 8, and the § 35 Substance-Use Path; Side by Side — the Comparison Itself; Rights Inside Every Status — Hearings, Lawyers, Review, and Dignity · Law Enforcement: The Officer's Place in Two Different Systems; Voluntary Transport and Voluntary Admission — Helping Someone Choose Care; Emergency Custody Under § 12 — What the Law Asks of You; What Officers Do Not Decide — Commitment Belongs to Clinicians and Courts; Paperwork, Dignity, and De-escalation on Every Transport; After the Call — Handoff, Follow-Up, and Officer Wellness

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Inside a Commitment Hearing — Testimony and Evidence; Medication-Over-Objection Proceedings in Outline; Section 35 in Practice — Petitions Families Actually File; Review, Discharge, and Conditional Release in Detail

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Hard Cases — Fluctuating Capacity and Revolving Doors; Guardianship and Its Alternatives in Depth; The Commitment Cases Revisited — O'Connor to Olmstead as One Story; Rights Litigation — How Conditions Cases Are Built

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Family Court-Watch Project — Commitment Sessions Observed and Mapped; Teaching-Back: The Two Doors, Explained to a Community Group; A Plain-Language Rights Card for People in Crisis and Their Families; Mentoring New Learners Through the Comparison Table

Interventions

Schools: Adult (Law Enforcement: cross-reference via Voluntary vs Involuntary — § 35 petitions and crisis response)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What an Intervention Is — a Planned Conversation, Not an Ambush; The Family Intervention, Step by Step; Professionals and Other Settings — Interventionists, Workplaces, Schools; When the Law Does the Asking — Court-Ordered Treatment and § 35; Why Interventions Fail — and Gentler Alternatives That Work; Safety and Compassion — Planning for Hard Moments

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): CRAFT in Practice — A Twelve-Week Family Walk-Through; Motivational Conversations in Depth — Practice Dialogues; Hiring an Interventionist — Contracts, Costs, and Red Flags; Workplace Assistance Programs Step by Step

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Interventions With Co-Occurring Disorders; Adolescents and Young Adults — Family Work in Outline; When a Loved One Has Been Through Many Treatments; Measuring What Worked — Outcomes Families Can Track

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Family Support Practicum — Coaching a Household Through Part 2's Steps (Supervised Role-Play); Teaching-Back: A Community Session on Planned Conversations; Build a Local Treatment-Readiness Binder for Families; Mentoring New Learners in Compassionate Confrontation

Suicide and Suicide Prevention

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth (Youth adaptation: help-seeking only — warning signs in friends, never keep a safety secret, tell a trusted adult, 988 / Crisis Text Line; no cases)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: What a suicidal crisis is — pain, hopelessness, and a health emergency; Risk factors and protective factors — what raises risk and what buffers it; Warning signs in adults — changes worth acting on; Talking with someone you are worried about — ask directly, listen, stay; Making the environment safer, getting professional help, and what happens when you call 988; After a crisis — support, grief, and the role of faith and community · Law Enforcement: The crisis you are walking into — what a suicidal crisis is; Recognizing risk and warning signs on a call; Responding to a person in crisis — slow down, communicate, de-escalate, connect; People in custody — the duty of care, stated at the level of principle; Your own risk — responder wellness and peer support, taught with care · Youth: Hard feelings and a crisis are different — and both deserve help; Warning signs in a friend — what to watch for; The one rule: never keep a friend's secret about safety; How to help a friend — ask, listen, stay, connect; Myths that get in the way

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Gatekeeper skills in depth — structured practice in the helping conversation; Supporting a family after a loss — postvention for communities; Workplace and congregational prevention plans; Crisis lines and local crisis systems — how the network routes help

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Prevention program design — reading the CDC's prevention strategies critically; Media and community messaging that helps and never harms; Supporting responders after a critical incident; Faith leadership in prevention — training lay leaders to notice, ask, and refer

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-back — teach this unit's warning signs and helping conversation to a community group; Community prevention project — build a 988-awareness and safe-storage campaign for a congregation or workplace; Peer-support practicum (LE) — supervised practice in recognizing and approaching a colleague at risk

Fingerprinting

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: What a fingerprint actually is — the science in plain words; How prints are taken — ink cards and Live Scan; Two doors — criminal booking prints and civil applicant prints; Where prints go — state systems, the FBI, and the law that lets them share; Reading the results — what a background check shows, and its limits; Your rights in your own record; When the case ends — what happens to arrest prints · Law Enforcement: Lawful authority — the four doors to a person's prints; Detention limits — Davis and Hayes are the fence lines; Taking prints that work — quality is your job; Chain, labeling, and the latent print at the scene; The comparison and its limits — testify to the truth, not the legend; Civil applicant prints and your records duties

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Latent prints in depth — development methods and scene work; Palm prints and other friction-ridge evidence; Reading a rap sheet line by line — dispositions, cycles, and errors; Sealing and expungement of fingerprint-based records in practice

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Fingerprint evidence at trial — Daubert challenges and examiner testimony; Biometrics beyond fingerprints — face, iris, and DNA compared honestly; Wrongful identifications — case studies in examiner error and bias; Interstate and international record exchange — III and beyond

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-back — run a know-your-record workshop in your community; Records clinic project — help residents obtain and read their own CORI; Case-study portfolio — follow one identification from scene to verdict; Mentoring new learners through Year 1 fingerprinting

Recognizing Lies and Truth

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth (protective critical-thinking adaptation)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: The honest headline — there is no human lie detector; Why "tells" fail — base rates, context, and the truth bias; Cognitive load — a real idea with honest limits; What actually works — verification; Protecting yourself in real conversations; When it involves the law — statements, police, and your protections · Law Enforcement: The honest headline for officers — impressions are not evidence; Interview versus interrogation — different rooms, different rules; Deception by police — what Frazier allows, and where the ground gives way; Documentation — the record is what the court meets; Verification beats impression — the working method; Young people — J.D.B. and the extra care the law now requires · Youth: Nobody can spot every lie — and that is not your fault; How tricksters work; Check the story — four moves that work; Special traps for young people; If someone in authority questions you

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): The science of memory — why honest witnesses disagree; False confessions — how they happen and how they are proven; Interview methods with research support — rapport and information-gathering in depth; Scams and fraud scripts — the anatomy of a con

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Credibility in court — impeachment, corroboration, and the jury's job; Deception in documents and digital life — forged records and manipulated media; Interrogation reform debates — recording laws and deception limits by state; Media literacy at scale — rumors, virality, and coordinated falsehood

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-back — lead a verification-habits session for a neighborhood group; Community project — a scam-spotting guide for seniors and new phone users; Case-study portfolio — re-examine a famous wrongful conviction built on a false confession; Mentoring new learners through Year 1 critical thinking

PII — Personally Identifiable Information

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth adaptation

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: What PII is — information that points to one person; Sensitive and non-sensitive PII — why some pieces weigh more; Where PII lives — paper, phones, schools, clinics, and employers; Who must protect PII — and the idea of collecting less; Your rights over your own information; Sharing less — and what to do when a holder mishandles yours · Law Enforcement: What PII is in police work — identifiers, combinations, and records about people; Sensitive PII on the job — what demands the tightest handling; Where PII lives in a department — paper, systems, and the spaces between; Who must protect it, and on what authority — duties in outline; Compiled records and privacy — the lesson of the rap sheet case; When PII is mishandled — inside, outside, and your part in the response · Youth: What personal information is; The most powerful pieces — what to never share; Where your information lives — and who holds it; Tricks that collect information; Your rules — and what to do when something goes wrong

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): PII in health records in depth; Children's records — school, medical, and online; Workplace PII — personnel files and workplace collection in outline; Public records and your information — what anyone may see

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Privacy rights in practice — using access and correction channels; Data brokers and the opt-out landscape; Biometric identifiers and the new laws; When a holder mishandles or is breached — the PII side of the file

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Household PII audit (project); Teach-back — a forms-and-fields clinic for neighbors; Case-study portfolio — one mishandling complaint from first letter to final answer

Data Breaches

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth adaptation

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: What a data breach is; How breaches unfold — the common shapes; Breach-notification law in outline — Massachusetts first; Reading a breach letter — what it says, and what it cannot tell you; What to do when your information is taken — the response in order; Organizational duties in outline — and who can sue · Law Enforcement: What a data breach is — from the receiving end of the call; The shapes you will meet — intrusion, exposure, insider, and lost media; What the holder owes — notification duties in outline; The first hour — intake questions that build the file; Residents, letters, and the standing question — the people behind the file; When the breached holder is your own agency · Youth: What a data breach is; How a breach happens, in simple shapes; The breach letter — what it means when one arrives; What your family does — and your part in it; Your rights, and who to tell

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Breach timelines — discovery, delay, and the disclosure fight; Health breaches in depth — HIPAA notification in practice; Small-organization breaches — the dental-office problem; Breach letters across states — comparing notice laws

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Breach litigation after TransUnion — how standing is argued; Regulators and enforcement — Attorney General actions and FTC orders; Vendors and supply-chain breaches; Class settlements — what members actually receive

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Household breach drill (project); Teach-back — reading a breach letter with a community group; Case-study portfolio — one breach from first notice to final letter

Ransomware Attacks

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: What ransomware is — encryption turned into extortion; How it gets in — doors you have already learned to close; Prevention — updates, access discipline, and the backup that decides everything; If it happens to you — the first moves, in order; When it hits an organization — response in outline, and the breach that travels with it; The law around ransomware — crimes, and a ransom that met an insurance policy · Law Enforcement: What ransomware is — the crime in two halves; How it gets in — the doors on your jurisdiction's buildings; Before the call — the posture that decides outcomes; The victim's first call — your moves, in order; The payment question — the official posture, stated plainly; The law in outline — the federal crime, and a ransom in civil court

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Ransomware economics — how the industry is organized, in outline; Municipal and school attacks — case studies; Backups under pressure — restore drills and failure modes; The payment-risk landscape for organizations — sanctions and counsel

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Coverage litigation after G&G Oil — policy words in court; Ransomware and critical services — hospitals, water, and emergency systems; Threat advisories for responders — reading CISA and FBI guidance; The breach track in depth — notification after an encryption event

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Household or agency readiness review (project); Teach-back — a backup-building clinic for small offices; Case-study portfolio — one incident from first call to final report

Records Departments in All Roles

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: The Map — Records Live in Departments, Not in "The System"; Medical Records — Health Information Management and Your HIPAA Rights; Criminal Records — Police Records Departments and Massachusetts CORI; Government Records — Public Records Law and How to Ask; School and Vital Records — In Outline; Making a Request That Works — Proof, Paper, and Patience · Law Enforcement: The Records Bureau — What It Holds and Why It Is a Trust; The Public Counter — What the Public May Have, and How Requests Actually Work; Protected Records — CORI, Juvenile, and Victim Information; Recordings — Body Camera and Dispatch Audio, in Outline; Looking Things Up — Authorized Use, and Why Misuse Is a Firing and Criminal Matter; Doing the Release Decision Right — A Closing Checklist in Prose

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Medical Records Requests, Step by Step; CORI Corrections and Sealing Petitions in Depth; Public Records Appeals That Work; Vital Records and Identity Documents; Records Retention Schedules, Read Closely

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Exemption Categories in Depth; Multi-Agency Records — Federal, State, and Municipal Overlaps; Records in Litigation — Holds, Discovery, and Production; Privacy Impact of Compiled Records; Teaching the Records Map to Your Community

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Community Records-Request Workshop; Learner Portfolio — A Request, a Response, and an Appeal; Teaching-Back Session on Finding the Right Door; A Neighborhood Guide to Records Departments

Deep Background Checks — Know Your Own Record

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth (Youth adaptation: "Your Footprint and Your First Record")

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: Why audit yourself — and the map of your records; Your criminal record, federal — the FBI Identity History Summary; Your criminal record, state — Massachusetts CORI; Your credit and consumer files; The rest of your file — courts, driving, licenses, registries, and your own name; Fixing the record — sealing, expungement, and criminal identity theft; Checking other people — the lawful lines · Law Enforcement: The professional's map — a chain of separate authorities, not one big database; The fingerprint backbone — CJIS, III, and NGI, as the FBI describes them; Name-based systems and their limits — NCIC, CORI levels, and one careful sentence on Nlets; The legal gates — security policy, CORI statute, FCRA, DPPA, and the constitutional floor; Accuracy duties — mixed files, missing dispositions, correction rights, and the audit trail; The check turned inward — background investigations of officers themselves · Youth: Your digital footprint — deleting is not gone; Your first record — and how the law protects it; Grooming — gifts, secrets, and promises; Job offers that are not jobs; What to do — the trusted-adult ladder

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Not yet levelled — the Wave 4-J unit files carry Year 1 only; Years 2–4 are to be levelled in a later pass.

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Not yet levelled — see the Year 2 note.

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Not yet levelled — see the Year 2 note.

Collecting Evidence and Filing It Offline for Safe Keeping

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth (the Youth adaptation is combined with Topic 1's youth unit — Keeping Proof parts: When someone targets you — saving proof the right way; Your proof notebook — dates, screenshots, and a copy a grown-up holds; Tell a safe adult — and what happens after you tell)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: Why offline and why organized — and the safety-first rule; Photographs, video, and screenshots that hold up; Messages, documents, and recordings — exports, certified copies, and when recording is itself a crime; Your written record — the same-day memo and the master Evidence Log; Physical things — photograph in place, bag it, label it, log every move; Integrity you can prove — originals, copies, hashes, and honest timestamps; The filing system — folders, the offline drive, a trusted copy, and your duty to preserve — Law Enforcement: Extending the crime-scene foundation — from the scene to the courtroom shelf; Custody documentation — the log that survives cross-examination; Digital evidence and camera records — integrity, hashing, and audit trails; Retention, discovery, and release — schedules, public records, and the defense's rights; When custody fails — gaps, weight, spoliation, and honest testimony

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Digital Forensics Concepts for Laypeople; Public-Records Requests as an Evidence Tool; Backups That Survive — The 3-2-1 Habit in Practice; Evidence in Family and Housing Cases

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Authentication Fights in Real Cases; Agency Records Programs — Retention From the Inside; Spoliation Doctrine in Depth — Fletcher and Rule 37(e) at Work

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Building the Complete Indexed Case File; Teaching Evidence Discipline to Community Groups; Custody Audit Practicum — Finding the Gap Before Cross-Examination Does

How to Handle Burglary and Robberies and Unlawful Entries

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: Three different crimes — entry, confrontation, and presence; The Massachusetts map in outline — the burglary family, robbery, and trespass; Prevention — making your place the harder opportunity; During a robbery — the survival rules; A burglary in progress, and a burglary discovered — two different doors; Afterward — report, insurance, victims' rights, and compensation · Law Enforcement: Read the call by its shape — three crimes, three different jobs; The robbery victim — care first, and the broadcast description; The discovered burglary — a scene the victim hands you; Element-driven reporting — writing to the charge you can prove; Patterns, prevention, and follow-through — the part that stops the next one; The people side, kept — rights, compensation, and the trespass call done well

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Home-invasion and push-in robberies — the overlap cases and victim support; Commercial robbery series — pattern analysis and business partnerships; Burglary investigation in depth — forensics at the point of entry; Landlord, tenant, and trespass — the civil-criminal boundary in practice

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Insurance fraud that follows property crime — staged losses and inflated claims; Restitution and compensation in practice — walking a victim's claim end to end; Repeat-victimization research — what the evidence says prevents the second burglary; Interviewing robbery victims and witnesses — memory under stress

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-back — teach the robbery survival rules and scene preservation to a neighborhood or business group; Prevention practicum — a full CPTED assessment of a real property, written to standard; Case-file review — audit three closed burglary files against the element-driven reporting standard

Loss Prevention

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: What "loss" is — shrinkage and its three sources; How the work is done — observation, deterrence, documentation; The law — shoplifting (§ 30A) and larceny (§ 30) in Massachusetts; When a store stops someone — merchant detention and civil recovery; The other side of the counter — mistakes, rights, and being accused; Careers in loss prevention — ladder, skills, and the ethics that keep the license to operate · Law Enforcement: The retail call — two complainants in one room; The charging law from the officer's side — § 30A's acts, tiers, and arrest rule; § 30's line; Grading the case package — what survives, and what to ask for; The detention itself — § 94B, complaints against the stop, and the juvenile in the office; Organized retail crime and the pattern file — when the small call is a cell; Prevention partnership and the profession's ethics — presence, proportionality, and behavior only

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Internal investigations in depth — interviewing employees lawfully and fairly; E-commerce and returns fraud — the loss that never enters a store; Organized retail crime investigations — fencing, marketplaces, and multi-jurisdiction cases; Civil recovery and restitution practice — demand letters, small claims, and settlement

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Asset protection analytics — exception data, case linkage, and false-positive discipline; Store design as prevention — retail CPTED at chain scale; Labor, privacy, and surveillance law for LP programs; Juvenile diversion design — retail responses that do not start records

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-back — teach § 30A and the detention limits to a retail team; Case practicum — build a complete LP case package from a simulated month of store data; Program audit — review a store's LP policy against the law and the profession's ethics, and write the corrections

Public Speaking vs Virtual Speaking

Schools: Adult · Youth adaptation (no Law Enforcement version)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: Two stages, one speaker — what stays the same; Speaking in the room — presence, voice, and body; Speaking through the camera — frame, eyes, and sound; Writing and structure that work in both places; Tech problems, nerves, and recovery — in the room and online; Choosing, preparing, and practicing for the setting you have · Youth: Speaking to people in the room; Speaking to people through a screen; Building a short talk that holds together; Camera, sound, and light — the simple setup; When tech fails and nerves show up

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Audience Analysis in Depth — Reading a Room and a Chat; Storytelling Structure — The Spine of Every Talk; Handling Questions and Thinking on Your Feet; Slides and Visuals That Serve the Talk

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Persuasive Speaking in Depth; Speaking on Sensitive Subjects With Care; Longer-Form Talks — Keynotes and Teaching Sessions; Hybrid Events Run Well — Hosting Both Audiences

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Deliver a Full Public Address, Live and Recorded; Coach a Newer Speaker Through Their First Talk; Build a Speaker's Portfolio; Community Speaking Project — A Talk Your Neighborhood Needed

Commencement Ceremonies

Schools: Adult only (no Law Enforcement or Youth version)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What commencement is — and what the words mean; How a ceremony runs — the order of events; The people and their roles; What graduates wear — regalia in plain terms; Etiquette — graduates, families, and guests; Speaking at commencement — and ceremonies beyond school

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Planning a Ceremony — Programs, Scripts, and Rehearsal; Accessibility and Inclusion at Ceremonies; Virtual and Hybrid Commencements in Detail; Regalia and Academic Tradition in Depth

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Writing the Commencement Address — A Workshop; Ceremonies Across Cultures and Faiths; When Ceremonies Go Wrong — Recovery and Grace; The Officiant's Craft — Weddings, Memorials, and Milestones

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Officiate or Marshal a Real Ceremony (Supervised Practicum); Teach-Back — A Family's Guide to Graduation Day; Ceremony Portfolio — Orders of Service You Have Built; Community Application — A Milestone Ceremony for Your Neighborhood

Tribute Speeches and Other Types of Speeches

Schools: Adult only (no Law Enforcement or Youth version)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Speeches for occasions — the family of special-occasion speeches; The tribute speech — honoring a living person or group; The eulogy — speaking for someone who has died; Toasts, acceptances, and introductions — the short forms; Motivational, informative, and persuasive speeches — the working speeches; Writing and delivering any of them well

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Interviewing for Stories — Gathering a Life in an Afternoon; Humor With Care — Teasing, Timing, and the Whole Room; Speeches of Welcome, Farewell, and Dedication in Depth; Writing for Someone Else's Voice

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Commemorative Speaking for Hard Occasions; The Keynote — Occasion Meets Argument; Speaking for Organizations — Anniversaries and Milestones; Editing Speeches — Cutting to the Essential Story

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Deliver a Tribute and a Eulogy (Supervised Practicum); Teach-Back — A Toast and Tribute Workshop for Your Community; Occasional-Speech Portfolio — Five Forms, Reviewed; Community Application — Words for a Moment Your Community Is Facing

Fire Fighter Training

Schools: Adult only (no Law Enforcement or Youth version in Wave 3; fire-service depth continues in the Professional Training Wing — Track 5: Fire Service)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What a Massachusetts firefighter actually does all day; The front door — the Municipal Firefighter Examination; Getting hired — the eligible list, the interview, and the conditional offer; Recruit school — the Massachusetts Firefighting Academy; After graduation — probation, certification, and a career of training; The honest ledger — time, money, body, and heart

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Reading an Exam Announcement Like a Candidate — Posters, Lists, and Deadlines; Call and Volunteer Departments in Depth — Joining Your Town's Department; Promotion Examinations — The Officer Ladder Step by Step; Specialties in Outline — Prevention, Investigation, Hazmat, and Technical Rescue

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Comparing States — How Other Commonwealths and States Hire and Train; The Fire Service as a Workplace — Unions, Schedules, and Wellness Programs; From Firefighter to Fire Chief — Leadership Paths and Officer Development; When Training Systems Are Studied — Accreditation and Standards Bodies

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Candidate Readiness Portfolio — Exam, Fitness, and Documents, Verified; Teach-Back — A Community Session on How Firefighters Are Hired; Mentoring a New Candidate Through One Full Hiring Cycle; A Local Department Research Project in the Advocacy Spirit

EMT Training

Schools: Adult only (no Law Enforcement or Youth version in Wave 3; professional depth continues in the Professional Training Wing — Track 4: EMT)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What an EMT is — and the three levels in Massachusetts; Before you enroll — eligibility and choosing an accredited program; Inside EMT training — classroom, skills lab, and the field; The two gates — NREMT certification, then Massachusetts certification; The ladder up — Advanced EMT and Paramedic; The work itself — shifts, settings, costs, and staying in

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Renewal and Continuing Education in Detail — Keeping the Credential Alive; Reciprocity and Working Across State Lines; EMS Systems — How Ambulance Services, Fire Departments, and Hospitals Fit Together; From EMT to Paramedic School — Choosing a CAAHEP Program Well

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): EMS Careers Beyond the Ambulance — Emergency Departments, Events, Industry, and Community Paramedicine in Outline; The EMS Workforce — Staffing, Wellness, and Retention as Public Questions; Comparing State EMS Systems — Certification Models Across the Country; EMS and the Law — Scope, Titles, and Accountability Revisited

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Certification Portfolio — Every Document Verified Before You Apply; Teach-Back — A Community Session on How EMTs Are Certified; Mentoring a New Student Through the Two Gates; A Local EMS Resource Map in the Advocacy Spirit

Nurse Training

Schools: Adult only (no Law Enforcement or Youth version in Wave 3)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): The ladder in one view — nurse aide, LPN, RN, APRN; The first rung — nurse aide training and the Registry; Becoming an LPN or RN — approved programs and the NCLEX; What nursing school actually feels like; The top rung — APRN authorization in outline; The honest ledger — time, money, and the work itself

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Choosing a Program in Detail — Approval, Outcomes, and Clinical Sites; LPN-to-RN and RN-to-BSN Bridges — How Nurses Climb Without Starting Over; Renewal and Continuing Education — The License as a Standing Relationship; Licensure by Reciprocity — Moving a Nursing Career Across State Lines

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Graduate Nursing Paths Compared — Practitioner, Midwifery, Anesthesia, and Specialist Roles; Nursing Specialties and Certifications in Outline; The Nursing Workforce — Shortages, Staffing, and Safety as Public Questions; Nursing Governance — Boards, Compacts, and How the Rules Change

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Ladder Portfolio — A Personal Climbing Plan With Verified Requirements; Teach-Back — A Community Session on the Nursing Ladder; Mentoring an Aspiring Aide Through Registry Verification; A Local Nursing-Programs Guide in the Advocacy Spirit

Doctor Training

Schools: Adult only (no Law Enforcement or Youth version in Wave 3)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): The whole road in one view — a decade or more, by design; Before medical school — premedical studies and the MCAT; Medical school — four years, two halves; The licensing examinations — USMLE steps along the way; Residency, fellowship, and the Massachusetts license; The honest ledger — debt, time, and a life in medicine

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): The Application Cycle in Detail — AMCAS, Secondaries, Interviews, and Decisions; MD and DO Side by Side — Two Degrees, One License Standard; Choosing a Specialty — Careers in Medicine and the Rotation Evidence; Financing the Road — FIRST, Service Commitments, and Repayment Programs in Outline

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): International Medical Graduates and the ECFMG Path in Outline; Fellowship and Subspecialty Training — How Deep the Ladder Goes; Physician Licensure Across States — Boards, Compacts, and Portability Questions; The Physician Workforce — Training Capacity and Access as Public Questions

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Premedical Portfolio — Studies, Experience, and Readiness, Verified; Teach-Back — A Community Session on How Doctors Are Made; Mentoring a Premedical Student Through One Application Cycle; A Local Health-Careers Ladder Exhibit in the Advocacy Spirit

Detective vs Investigator

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: The one-sentence difference; The police detective's road — the department ladder; The private investigator's road — a Massachusetts license; What each may and may not do; Hiring one, and checking the license; Ethics, and what the work is really like — Law Enforcement: Two chairs, one word — and why the distinction is operational; The detective's working reality — what the chair actually holds; The private side, in law — chapter 147 from the officer's seat; The boundary in daily practice — scenes, witnesses, records, referrals; When the investigation is of them — and when they hold something you need; After the badge — the honest career picture on both sides

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): The Civil Service System in Depth — Examinations, Lists, and Appeals; Reading a PI's Report Like a Lawyer — Provenance and Hearsay; Licensing Across States — How Other Jurisdictions License Investigators; The Business of an Agency — Bonds, Insurance, and Clients

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): When Private Work Meets Criminal Cases — Disclosure and Parallel Proceedings; Ethics Complaints and Revocation Hearings in Practice; Specialized Practice Areas — Insurance, Corporate, and Legal Investigations at the Survey Level

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach the Boundary — A Community Session on Hiring Investigators Safely; Portfolio Review — Reports That Survived Hostile Reading; Mentoring New Detectives Through Their First Caseload Year

Secret Service Training

Schools: Adult only (no Law Enforcement or Youth unit for this topic in Year 1)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): One agency, two missions; Whom the Service hires — four families of work; Published entry requirements — the special-agent announcement as the example; The training path at the general level; What the work is really like; Preparing honestly — and the limits of preparation

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Reading a Federal Announcement Like an Applicant — Qualifications, Preferences, and Conditions; The Financial-Investigations Mission in Depth — Counterfeit and Fraud Careers; Federal Hiring Timelines — Surviving the Long Screening Without Losing the Thread

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): The Support Professions — Technical Law Enforcement and Professional Staff Careers in Depth; Clearances and Background Investigations — The Public Framework; Comparing Federal Protective and Investigative Agencies' Career Paths

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Application Portfolio Clinic — Building the Documented Record; Teach the Two Missions — A Community Career-Education Session; Capstone — A Personal Federal-Careers Plan From Official Sources Only

Security Training

Schools: Adult only (no Law Enforcement or Youth unit for this topic in Year 1)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What the work is; Massachusetts: the agency is licensed — understand exactly what that means; How training really happens; The doctrine: observe, report, de-escalate; Other states, one contrast — California's guard card; Careers — where guard work leads

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Report Writing as a Craft — Logs, Incident Reports, and Court-Ready Records; Specialized Posts — Healthcare, Campus, and Government Facilities; Supervision in Security — Scheduling, Post Inspection, and Coaching Guards

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Security Program Management — Risk Assessment at the Manager's Level; Licensing Systems Compared — Agency States, Registration States, and Hybrid Models; Emergency Management for Security Teams — Awareness-Level Coordination

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach the Doctrine — Training New Guards in Observe-and-Report; Portfolio Review — A Year of Reports, Audited; Building an Agency — The Chapter 147 Business Roadmap

Directors Training in All Fields

Schools: Adult only (no Law Enforcement or Youth unit for this topic in Year 1)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What a director is — the work underneath the title; The fields — how the chair differs, and how it doesn't; How people actually reach director roles; Training and education — the ladder, including its free rungs; The skills that decide — what training must actually build; What the chair is really like — and a sane way to aim at it

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Boards and Governance in Practice — Bylaws, Meetings, and the Director's Duty; Budgets a Director Can Defend — Reading Statements Without Flinching; Hiring, Coaching, and Parting Well — The People Loops; Strategy in a Real Organization — From Mission Statement to Priorities

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Directing Through Crisis — Decisions When the Facts Won't Wait; Field Clinics — Nonprofit, Ministry, Creative, and Public-Agency Directing Compared in Depth; Negotiation at the Top — Funders, Boards, Unions, and Communities

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): The Director's Portfolio — A Documented Year of Decisions, Reviewed; Teach the Four Parts — Leading a Director-Foundations Session; Capstone — A Directing Plan for a Real or Model Organization

Forensic Science

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: What forensic science is; The disciplines inside the field; How evidence travels — scene, laboratory, report; The first gate — Frye, Daubert, and Lanigan; The second gate — the analyst must answer in person; Education and careers — how people enter this work · Law Enforcement: The call that starts the chain; Working with the laboratory — submission, priorities, patience; The Daubert–Lanigan hearing — where your file is tested; The analyst on the stand — and you beside the process; Errors, exclusions, and the long memory of forensic mistakes; Careers beside the bench — roles, training, and boundaries · Youth: Science that helps a court decide; Meet the science teams; How an object travels to court; Judges check the science first — three famous cases; The scientist must answer questions in person

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Inside the Disciplines I — Fingerprints and Pattern Evidence; Inside the Disciplines II — DNA and Biology; Digital Forensics Foundations; Laboratory Quality Systems — Validation and Accreditation in Detail

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Contested Science — Methods Courts Have Limited or Excluded; Statistics for the Courtroom — Error Rates and Likelihood Ratios; The Wrongful-Conviction Record — Forensic Error Case Studies; Expert Report Writing Workshop

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Mock Daubert–Lanigan Hearing (Practicum); Teach-Back — Evidence Integrity for First Responders; Forensic Career Portfolio and Education Plan; Community Application — A Public Guide to How Evidence Really Works

Computer Science

Schools: Adult · Youth (no Law Enforcement version)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: What computer science actually is; The branches of the field; Thinking like a computer scientist — the four moves; Learning it free — the verified beginner paths; Careers — what the jobs are and what they ask; How this unit connects — and your first month · Youth: Computers follow instructions — exactly; Big problems become small problems; Talking to the computer — code, data, and bugs; Learn it free — real university doors; Jobs, futures, and the honest truth

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Programming in Depth — Data Structures and Algorithms; How Computers and Networks Actually Work; Databases and the Shape of Information; Building Your First Real Project

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning — Foundations; Software Engineering as a Team Craft; Computing and Security — The Bridge to the Cybersecurity Track; Mathematics for Computing

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Portfolio Project — Build and Document a Working Program; Teach-Back — A Beginner's First Month, Led by You; Career and Degree Pathways Portfolio; Community Application — A Free Intro-to-Computing Class for Your Neighborhood

How to Bring Positive Change to Countries and States

Tracks: Adult + Law Enforcement + Youth ("How My Community Changes")

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What positive change means — and how we know it happened (Adult) · The lawmaking path — legislatures, bills, committees, votes, and budgets (Adult) · Rules and agencies — where laws become daily practice (Adult) · Courts as change-makers — and the limits of court victories (Adult) · Elections, voice, and organizing — the people's part of the machinery (Adult) · Why change fails — and how it lasts (Adult) · Law, policy, and practice — three different things (LE) · How change lawfully reaches policing — the five channels (LE) · The officer's lawful role — implement, inform, testify (LE) · Rules, training, and the street — closing the implementation gap (LE) · Measuring whether a change worked (LE) · Proposals, patience, and staying lawful (LE) · It starts with a problem neighbors notice (Youth) · Who decides what — matching the problem to the decider (Youth) · Speaking up kindly — meetings, letters, and neighbors (Youth) · Voting — the grown-up tool you will inherit (Youth) · A true story — the children who changed the schools (Youth)

Year 2 — Deeper (planned): 1. Reading a budget line by line — where the money actually goes. 2. Rulemaking deep dive — following one proposed regulation from notice to final rule. 3. Ballot questions and referendums — the direct-democracy tools. 4. Building a coalition that lasts past one meeting. 5. Local government in depth — city councils, select boards, school committees, and zoning boards.

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): 1. Policy evaluation — comparing programs honestly with data. 2. Implementation science — why good laws fail in delivery, and the fixes. 3. Change at scale — county, state, and multi-state coordination. 4. Ethics and conflicts of interest in public decision-making. 5. Case-study seminar — three reforms, three eras, one method of comparing them.

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): 1. Capstone — design a lawful change campaign for a real local problem, with baseline, steps, and measures. 2. Testimony workshop — written and spoken testimony, practiced and reviewed. 3. Measuring your own results — publishing an honest outcomes report. 4. Teaching the process — preparing a community teach-in from your capstone.

Perspectives vs Emotions and Behaviors

Tracks: Adult + Law Enforcement + Youth

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Three lenses on one person (Adult) · Perspective — the view from a life (Adult) · Emotions — signals with information in them (Adult) · Behavior — the only lens others can directly see (Adult) · How the three move each other (Adult) · Using the three lenses well — and where each lens misleads (Adult) · The encounter lens — three layers, only one visible (LE) · Reading behavior without mind-reading (LE) · The other person's perspective shapes the encounter (LE) · Emotions, escalation, and de-escalation in outline (LE) · Your own perspective and emotions are part of the encounter (LE) · Documentation discipline — observed behavior and exact words (LE) · Three lenses — your inside and your outside (Youth) · Perspective — their side of the story (Youth) · Feelings are real — but they are not commands (Youth) · Behavior — what you do is the part others see (Youth) · The three-lens check — before you react (Youth) · Ask instead of assuming — and use the lenses kindly (Youth)

Year 2 — Deeper (planned): 1. Culture and perspective — how background shapes what a situation looks like. 2. Emotions in groups — contagion, crowds, and calm leadership. 3. Conflict styles — five ways people handle disagreement, and yours. 4. Listening labs — paraphrase, summarize, and check before responding.

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): 1. Perspective-taking in hard cases — victims, complainants, and people accused. 2. Emotional labor — the cost of regulated feelings at work, and recovery. 3. Behavior across settings — why the same person acts differently at home, school, and work. 4. Research literacy — reading a psychology study without being fooled by the headline.

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): 1. Mediation foundations — helping two perspectives meet without taking sides. 2. Capstone — analyze a real (anonymized) conflict through all three lenses and present a communication plan. 3. Teaching the three-lens check — leading a session for your community or unit.

Physiology vs Biology vs Psychology vs Sociology — The Four Lenses

Tracks: Adult ONLY in Wave 4 (no Law Enforcement or Youth version written)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now) — Adult: Four sciences, four questions · The biology lens — inheritance, development, and evolution in plain terms · The physiology lens — the body in motion · The psychology lens — mind and behavior · The sociology lens — the world around the person · Worked example — addiction through all four lenses · A second example — and the careers inside each field (second example: learning difficulty)

Year 2 — Deeper (planned): 1. Methods compared — experiments, surveys, field studies, and lab measures. 2. Sleep through four lenses. 3. Aging through four lenses. 4. Reading health headlines — correlation, causation, and sample size.

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): 1. Nature, nurture, and the space between — what the evidence actually supports. 2. Stress and the body over a lifetime. 3. Communities and health — neighborhood-level patterns and what moves them. 4. Interdisciplinary teams — how the four fields hand off to each other in real cases.

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): 1. Capstone — take one problem from your own community and write a four-lens analysis with sources. 2. Career pathways portfolio — education routes into each field, including free and low-cost starts. 3. Presenting the four lenses — a teach-back session.

Patterns and Behaviors

Tracks: Adult + Law Enforcement + Youth

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What a pattern is — repetition across time (Adult) · Habits and cycles — cue, routine, reward (Adult) · Antecedent–Behavior–Consequence — the ABC tool (Adult) · Patterns in groups and places — schedules, situations, and environment (Adult) · Real pattern or coincidence? — checking before you act (Adult) · Ethics — patterns describe behavior, never a person's worth (Adult) · Behavior patterns in calls for service (LE) · Documenting specific observable facts (LE) · The ABC tool in incident analysis (LE) · Real pattern or coincidence? — testing the claim before acting on it (LE) · Ethics doubled — pattern recognition is not profiling (LE) · The legal guardrail — Terry, reasonable suspicion, and checkable facts (LE) · What a pattern is — and why one time is not a pattern (Youth) · Routines that help — sleep, homework, practice (Youth) · Triggers — the place, the feeling, the time of day (Youth) · Changing one small step (Youth) · Patterns among friends — kindly, and "every time" claims (Youth)

Year 2 — Deeper (planned): 1. Keeping a behavior log — simple records that reveal real patterns. 2. Environment design — changing cues instead of fighting willpower. 3. Group patterns — schedules, seasons, and places, read responsibly. 4. Probability in plain language — base rates in everyday decisions.

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): 1. Data ethics — consent, privacy, and the limits of prediction. 2. When patterns mislead — survivorship, selection, and small numbers. 3. Pattern claims in court and media — questions that test them. 4. Program evaluation — did the pattern actually change?

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): 1. Capstone — a 30-day pattern study of one behavior (yours, or a place's, with permission), documented and honestly reported. 2. Ethics review panel — presenting your study's guardrails for critique. 3. Teaching pattern literacy — a session on real patterns vs coincidences for your community.

Treatments

Tracks: Adult + Law Enforcement (NO Youth version — treatment content is adult education; Youth protective help-seeking lives in the Wave-2 units)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What "treatment" means — one word, four lenses (Adult) · Medical and physiological treatments — in outline (Adult) · Psychological therapies — in outline (Adult) · Social treatments — treating the circumstances (Adult) · "Evidence-based" — what the words honestly mean (Adult) · Consent, choice, and ethics — you are not a passenger (Adult) · Why officers need a map of treatment (LE) · The treatment landscape in outline — the same four lenses, compressed (LE) · Diversion and referral — the doors before, beside, and after arrest (LE) · Levels of care an officer will hear named (LE) · Consent and compulsion — your narrow lane under § 12 (LE) · Boundaries — officers are not clinicians (LE)

Year 2 — Deeper (planned): 1. Finding care — insurance, sliding scales, community clinics, and waitlists, navigated honestly. 2. Treatment plans and reviews — how progress is supposed to be checked. 3. Family roles in treatment — support without control. 4. Workplace and school accommodations during treatment.

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): 1. Reading outcome research — effect sizes, follow-up windows, and who was studied. 2. Systems of care — how medical, therapy, and social supports are coordinated (and where they break). 3. Rights in treatment — records, privacy, grievances, and second opinions in depth. 4. Policy and treatment — how funding and law shape what help exists.

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): 1. Capstone — build a local resource map of treatment and support options from verified public sources. 2. A personal/family care-navigation plan, written before a crisis. 3. Teaching treatment literacy — helping others ask good questions of providers, respectfully.

Human Cloning

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth: no Youth cloning unit — stated plainly. The youth-facing content for this wave is the media-literacy unit under Human Chip Technology below; cloning reaches Youth only inside that unit's verified-record section (Dolly 1996; macaques 2018; the unverified 2002 claim), in calm, factual form.

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: What cloning is — the science in plain words; The factual record — what has actually happened; The law, country by country — three kinds of regimes; The processes — how the systems actually run; Lawsuits and disputes — an honest, thin record; The ethics debates — the main arguments, attributed, unsettled; Outcomes — where the science and the laws stand today · Law Enforcement: The science, at the level an officer needs; The legal map — who bans what, and who regulates the rest; How enforcement actually works — the licence desk, not the street; Evidence and identity implications — stated carefully; The one case — patents, and what it tells you about the field; Answering the public — claims, questions, and your lane

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): The Licensing State in Detail — Inside an HFEA-Style Review; Stem Cells After Cloning — iPS Cells and What Changed the Debate; Animal Cloning in Agriculture and Conservation — The Working Technology; Patent Law at the Body's Edge — Methods, Copies, and Gene Claims

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Comparative Regimes — Why Countries Chose Differently; Mitochondrial Replacement and the "Three-Parent" Debates, in Legal Outline; Heritable Gene Editing Governance After 2018; Unverified Claims and Public Panic — A Case-Study Clinic

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-Back — The Three Regimes, Presented to a Community Audience; Country-Table Audit — Re-Verify Five Placements Against Official Sources; A Plain-Language Cloning-Law Guide for Your Community, in the Advocacy Spirit

Human Chip Technology

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth adaptation (one media-literacy unit — see below)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: The technology in plain terms — two families, one myth to retire; The factual record — what actually happened; The law — the guard is against forcing, not against use; Processes and procedures — consent is the core; Lawsuits and disputes — what was claimed, and what actually resulted; Outcomes — small, voluntary, and guarded · Law Enforcement: The devices — two families, and the physics that settles most arguments; The record — what has actually happened in workplaces and clinics; Implants as identity and evidence — the general principles; The law — state bans, the federal position, and the rules that bind the state itself; Disputes and cases — the honest file; Answering the public — fear, facts, and your lane · Youth adaptation: Reading Tech Headlines — Chips, Clones, and Checking What Is Actually True (the four-question check; passive chips cannot track; the verified cloning record; cloning vs gene editing; a steady plan for frightening posts)

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Workplace Technology and Consent in Depth — Offers, Alternatives, and Paper Trails; Data Protection at the Body — GDPR and State Privacy Acts Side by Side; Medical Devices in Plain Law — Clearance, Approval, and the IDE Road; Sweden and the Voluntary Societies — A Cultural Case Study

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Neural Data and Neurorights — Chile, Colorado, and What Comes Next; Biometric Evidence and Its Limits — Credentials, Corroboration, Error; Implant Claims in the Wild — Auditing a Year of Headlines; Body Technology in Custody and Care Settings — The Rules That Bind Institutions

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-Back — The Physics and the Law, in a Community Session; Consent-Checklist Project — Review a Real Workplace Offer Against the Statutes; A Plain-Language Implants-and-Your-Rights Guide for Your Community, in the Advocacy Spirit

Birth Control and Methods

Schools: Adult only — Youth version held for Destiny's direction

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What birth control is — and how to read the effectiveness numbers; Barrier methods and the long-acting reversible methods; Hormonal methods, fertility awareness, and permanent methods; Emergency contraception — what it is, and what it is not; Health framing, where people get each method, and Massachusetts law; The law of the choice itself — and faith and conscience

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Coverage in Practice — Insurance, Pharmacies, and Appeals; Contraception Across Life Stages — Postpartum, Perimenopause, and Changing Methods; Methods and Medical Conditions in Depth (educational only); Telehealth and Mail-Order Access — Rules and Safety Checks

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Contraceptive Law After Griswold — Coverage Mandates and Conscience Litigation, in Outline; Public Health and Access — Clinic Funding and Title X in Depth; Comparing States — Dispensing Rules and Pharmacist Prescribing

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Build a Verified Local Access Guide; Teach-Back — Every Method, Honestly Compared; Community Health Information Session (facts only, no individual advice)

Prisoners as Research Subjects

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement — no Youth version

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: Why researchers used people in prison — the ethical problem stated plainly; Two histories every student should know — Stateville and Holmesburg; The turn — exposés, the National Research Act, and the Belmont Report; The rules as they stand — 45 C.F.R. Part 46, Subpart C, and the time-served answer in the regulation's own words; "Less time served" untangled — the three real pieces; The ethics today — both arguments, attributed, neither settled here · Law Enforcement: Why this history is a staff responsibility; The framework — Belmont, the Common Rule, and Subpart C; Voluntariness on the ground — the inducement rule and the parole rule; Medical care is a constitutional floor, not a research benefit — Estelle v. Gamble; The modern echo staff must recognize — White County, Tennessee (2017); Grievances, documentation, and the staff posture

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): The IRB File in Detail — Reading a Protocol and the Seven Findings; Research in Jails vs Prisons — Pretrial Detainees in Depth; Follow-Up Care and Release Mid-Study — § 46.305(a)(7) in Practice; Adult: The Tuskegee Study and the Road to 1974, in Depth

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): State Rules Beyond the Federal Floor — Comparing Jurisdictions; Industry-Sponsored Research in Custody — Conflicts and Oversight; Skinner and Buck in Depth — Reproductive Rights of Incarcerated People; The Institute of Medicine 2006 Report — Reform Proposals Debated

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Facility Self-Audit — A Voluntariness Walk-Through (LE portfolio); Teach-Back — The Time-Served Question, Answered From the Regulation; Community Forum — Research Ethics and the People Inside (Adult)

Capital Punishment and Execution

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement — no Youth version (by design, stated plainly: this topic is taught in the Adult and Law Enforcement schools only)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: The process, step by step I — capital charging and the two-phase trial; The process, step by step II — after the sentence; The map — laws by state today; Who can be sentenced to die — the constitutional limits; Methods in law — what statutes authorize; The entire truth, both sides · Law Enforcement: The process — who decides what; The state map today; The constitutional guardrails; Methods in law and method challenges; Time, warrants, stays, and clemency; Scale and the public debate

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Reading a Capital Case File — Charging Documents, Notices of Aggravators, and the Trial Record; Direct Appeal and State Post-Conviction in Depth — Standards of Review at Each Stage; Clemency Practice — Boards, Petitions, and Hearings, State by State; The Federal Death Penalty in Depth — Federal Capital Crimes and the Federal Review Process

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Method Litigation After Baze, Glossip, and Bucklew — The Case Law Since 2019; Intellectual Disability Determinations After Hall and Moore — How Courts Actually Decide; Comparative Abolition — How Other Countries Ended the Death Penalty (neutral, descriptive); Capital Defense and Prosecution Ethics — The Professional Standards (ABA Guidelines in outline)

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Build a Verified State-by-State Capital Law Reference (official sources only, dated); Teach-Back — The Whole Process, Charging to Clemency, Without Settling the Debate; Community Forum — Capital Punishment, Both Sides Presented in Their Own Strongest Terms

Death Row, Solitary Confinement, and General Population

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement — no Youth version (by design, stated plainly: this topic is taught in the Adult and Law Enforcement schools only)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: Three worlds, defined; A day in each world; How a person gets into segregation — and out; What the science and the standards say; Death row's particular truth; The human circle — and the question, stated fairly · Law Enforcement: The three housing worlds as a classification map; Placement process and the due-process floor; Time, review, and the way back; Health duties inside restrictive housing; Death row as a custody assignment; Standards, litigation, and the professional's compass

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Restrictive Housing Law, State by State — Statutes, Caps, and Protected Categories After the Reform Wave; The Grievance File — Exhaustion, Documentation, and What Courts Actually Read; Mental-Health Screening and Care Duties in Segregation — Madrid's Line in Practice; Step-Down and Reentry From Long-Term Segregation — Program Models That Courts and Settlements Produced

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Conditions Litigation in Depth — Totality of Circumstances From Hutto to Porter; The Mandela Rules in American Courtrooms — Persuasive Standards and Their Limits; Death Row Conditions After Abolition and Reform — Virginia, Pennsylvania, and the States That Moved People; Counting Solitary Honestly — Definitions, Surveys, and Why the Numbers Differ

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Facility Policy Review Portfolio — A Restrictive-Housing Policy Read Against the Cases and Standards (LE); Teach-Back — Three Worlds, One System, Explained to a Family Member (Adult); Community Forum — Solitary Confinement, the Evidence and the Arguments, Attributed and Unsettled

Traveling by Air — Laws, Crimes, Rights, and Cases

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth (one Youth unit — air travel only, built from TSA's public family guidance; the Youth adaptation teaches what screening is, what to expect, and how to travel calmly; sea and land legal material is Adult and Law Enforcement only, stated plainly)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: The Map Above the Map — Sovereignty, the Chicago Convention, and ICAO; Whose Law Is It Up There? — Registration, the Captain, and the Special Aircraft Jurisdiction; Crimes in the Air and at the Airport — the chapter 465 offenses and unruly-passenger enforcement; The Treaties That Follow the Hijacker — Tokyo, The Hague, Montreal 1971; Your Rights as a Passenger — DOT Rules and the Montreal Convention of 1999; Logan — Our Home Airport. Law Enforcement: The Jurisdiction Map an Officer Actually Uses; The Offenses You Will Meet — chapter 465 in working outline; At the Checkpoint and the Gate; Unruly Passengers — civil enforcement, federal referral, documentation; The International Layer — conventions, Yunis, and handoffs; Logan as a Worked Example — Massport and the SPOT record. Youth: The Airport Is a Place With Rules — and Reasons; Screening, Step by Step; On the Plane — the Crew's Word Is Law in the Air; If Something Feels Wrong; Logan, Our Airport.

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Passenger Rights in Practice — Building a DOT Complaint That Works; Reading a Treaty — the Aviation Security Conventions Article by Article; Aviation and the Fourth Amendment — Screening, Searches, and the Courts; International Itineraries — Alliances, Codeshares, and Which Law Follows the Ticket

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Hard Cases — Jurisdiction Fights After Yunis; Method-of-Travel Problems — One Trip, Three Legal Systems; Air Cargo, Drones, and the Next Jurisdiction Questions; Case Study — a Disruption at Logan, Start to Finish

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach the Map — a Community Air-Travel Rights Session; Capstone — Build a Complete Travel File for an International Family Trip; Mentoring New Learners Through Year 1

Traveling by Sea and by Land — Laws, Crimes, and Cases

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement (no Youth version — stated plainly)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: Three Ways to Cross a Line — Why Jurisdiction Follows the Mode of Travel; The Law of the Sea in Plain Terms — Zones, Flags, and Three Kinds of "State"; Working and Riding on Ships — the Jones Act, Death on the High Seas, and the Ticket You Agreed To; Crime on the Water — the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act and the George Smith Case; Piracy — the Oldest Universal Crime; The Law of the Road and the Border — State Roads, Border Searches, Checkpoints, Roving Patrols; Smuggling Is Not Trafficking — and the Whole Map on One Table. Law Enforcement: Jurisdiction First — Maritime Zones, Flags, and the Handoff Question; Crimes Aboard Vessels — the CVSSA Reporting Chain; Piracy and Violence at Sea — § 1651 after Said; Border Law for Land Enforcement — Ramsey, Martinez-Fuerte, Brignoni-Ponce as working standards; Smuggling vs. Trafficking on Land and Sea; Crossings That Change the Law — State Lines, Tribal Land, National Borders.

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Reading a Cruise Ticket Like a Lawyer — Forums, Deadlines, and Notice Clauses; Maritime Injury Claims Step by Step — Jones Act and DOHSA Files; Border Encounters Documented — Reports That Survive Suppression Hearings; Ports of Entry — How Inspection Actually Works

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Hard Cases — Overlapping Sovereigns at Sea; The 100-Mile Question — Checkpoint Doctrine and Its Critics, From the Cases; Stowaways, Interdiction, and the Law That Governs Rescue; Case Study — One Voyage Through Four Jurisdictions

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach the Map — a Community Sea-and-Road Rights Session; Capstone — Jurisdiction Audit of a Real (Public) Itinerary; Mentoring New Learners Through Year 1

Healing and Recovery Without Medication

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth (protective adaptation — everyday habits and trusted adults only)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: The honest opening — a real toolkit, and the lines it does not cross; Sleep and rhythm — the foundation everything else stands on; Movement and food — honest evidence, honestly measured; Skills for the mind — tools you practice, not products you buy; Connection and meaning — no one heals in a waiting room alone; Informed choice about medication itself — your questions, asked well; Everyday illness without antibiotics — comfort, honesty, and the red flags · Law Enforcement (taught as: Crisis Literacy — Recognizing When a Person Needs Care Now, and the Non-Drug Supports That Exist): What crisis literacy is — and why it is an officer's skill; Medical emergencies that look like behavior; Mental-health crisis — and suicide risk, on the street and in the cell; The constitutional floor — care in custody is not optional; The non-drug supports map — connection, not treatment; Officer wellness — the same toolkit, turned toward responders · Youth (taught as: Feelings and Healthy Habits): Feelings are signals, not emergencies; Sleep — fuel for a growing mind; Moving your body and getting outside; Food, water, and rest basics; People help — and how to ask; The safety lines — say them, save them, use them

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Sleep Skills in Depth — CBT-I Principles and Sleep Diaries; Grief and Loss Without a Prescription Pad — Accompaniment, Ritual, and Time; Peer Support and Peer Respites in Depth — How They Work and How to Find One; The Gut, Food, and Mood — Nutritional Psychiatry Read Carefully; Chronic Pain and the Non-Drug Evidence (educational only)

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Psychiatric Advance Directives and Crisis Planning, State by State; Reading a Research Claim — Trials, Meta-Analyses, and Marketing; Faith, Meaning, and Recovery — Traditions in Their Own Words; When Self-Help Is Not Enough — Stepped Care and Honest Escalation

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Build a Personal Non-Drug Toolkit Plan (with the safety lines on page one); Teach-Back — The Toolkit and Its Limits, Honestly Stated; Community Resource Walk — Map Your Town's Non-Drug Supports

Rehabilitation in All Forms

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement — Youth covered protectively inside Feelings and Healthy Habits and the library's safety units; no separate Youth unit

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: The word and the map; Substance-use rehabilitation — the system map; Criminal-justice rehabilitation and reentry; Restorative justice — repairing harm, victim at the center; Physical rehabilitation — literacy, never treatment instruction; Vocational rehabilitation — the actual door; Rehabilitation of standing — the closing map · Law Enforcement (taught as: Rehabilitation and Reentry — The Supervision Side): The rehabilitation idea — a short history in outline; What the evidence supports — and what it asks of supervision; Conditions and compliance — lawful and humane; Reentry on the ground — the first 72 hours and the first year; Restorative justice — and the victim's place; Records, CORI, and second chances — in outline

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Levels of Care in Practice — Reading an ASAM Placement; Reentry Paperwork, Step by Step — ID, Benefits, Housing Lists; The IPE in Practice — Goals, Services, and Appeals Inside VR; Restorative Conferencing Up Close — Roles and Preparation

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Parity Enforcement — When a Denial Is Wrong and What to Do (with HHS OCR); Correctional Program Evaluation — Reading Recidivism Claims Critically; Disability Rights in Rehabilitation Settings — ADA and § 504 Complaints in Outline; Comparing Systems — What Other Countries Publish, Read Carefully

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): A Personal Reentry or Recovery Roadmap (built from the student's own field); Teach-Back — Rehabilitation's Fields, Mapped From Memory; Agency-Door Portfolio — VR, BSAS, Ticket to Work, Verified and Dated

Coming Home From a Criminal Facility

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement — Youth homecoming is taught in the Medical entry below (Coming Home and Going Back covers both hospital stays and time in custody)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: Before the gate and the first week; The rules you are living under; Your papers — the ID stack in the right order; Health and benefits bridge; A place to live; Work, money, and family duties; Rights restored and the long game · Law Enforcement (Supporting Reentry): Why reentry is a public-safety assignment; The homecomings you will actually meet; Conditions enforcement with proportionality; Process duties when revocation is on the table; The warm handoff — knowing the actual doors; Honest measures — what supervision can and cannot do

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): The First 72 Hours in Detail — A Day-by-Day Release Plan; Housing Applications With a Record — Reading Denials and Appealing; Supervision Levels and Earned Compliance Credits in Massachusetts; Family Reunification Step by Step — Visits, DCF, and the Court

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Collateral Consequences in Depth — The Full Massachusetts Map; Occupational Licensing Boards — Petitioning After a Denial; Federal Release — Supervised Release and the U.S. Probation Office; Expungement, Pardons, and Certificates — Choosing the Right Door

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Build a Verified Town-by-Town Reentry Door List; Teach-Back — The First-Year Rights and Duties Calendar; Peer Navigation — Walking Someone Else Home (Adult) / Supervision Portfolio Review (LE)

Coming Home From a Medical Facility

Schools: Adult · Youth

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: Discharge is a process with rights; The papers in your hand; The people around the bed; Coming home after a psychiatric stay; Money and coverage after the stay; Back to work and daily life · Youth (Coming Home and Going Back): Coming home — the first days can feel strange; Going back to school — you have the right to return; Your story is yours — what stays private; The check-ins that continue for a while; The adults whose job is helping — and the long view

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Skilled Nursing and Rehab Stays — Choosing a Facility With Your Rights Intact; Home Health and Equipment — What Arrives, What It Costs, What to Refuse; After Involuntary Treatment — Restoring Rights and Records in Massachusetts; Returning to College After a Hospital Stay (Adult) / Hospital-to-School Plans in Detail — IEP, 504, and Credit Recovery (Youth)

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Medicare Appeals Beyond Discharge — Skilled-Care Termination and the Next Levels; Guardianship and Rogers Orders — Review, Limits, and Termination in Depth; Medical Debt After a Stay — Charity Care, the Health Safety Net, and Disputes in Full; Long-Term Services and Supports — MassHealth, Frail Elder Waivers, and Community Living

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Build Your Recovery File — The Complete Discharge Packet, Audited; Teach-Back — Discharge Rights for a Family Caregiver; Community Resource Session — Coming Home Well (facts only, no individual advice)

Parties, Drugs & Drinking

Schools: Youth (written). Adult / Law Enforcement echoes proposed for Years 2–4 only — not built.

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Alcohol before 21 — the under-21 laws; Whose house, whose problem — the social host rule; Drugs — and the pills that can kill; Never drive impaired — and never ride with it; When someone is going down — call, and the law protects you

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Hosting as an Adult — Civil Liability in Depth; The OUI Court Process and CORI Consequences; The Fentanyl Supply Chain — Public-Health Responses

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Alcohol Policy and Licensing — How Communities Decide; Impaired-Driving Prevention Programs That Work; Good Samaritan Laws Across the States

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-Back — Running a Sober-Ride Campaign at Your School; Party-Host Legal Audit (practice exercise); The Before-the-Party Plan, Taught to Peers

Hands Off — Assault, Force, and Consent

Schools: Youth (written). Adult / Law Enforcement echoes proposed for Years 2–4 only — not built.

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Hitting is a crime — assault and battery; Consent is the law; A person who cannot say yes has not said yes; Spiking a drink is a felony of its own; Date rape — consequences, and help for the person harmed; Athletes get no pass — and bystanders have power

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Consent Law in Depth — Capacity and Its Edges; School Title IX Processes, Step by Step; Bystander Intervention Training

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Sexual-Assault Evidence and the SANE System; Registration Laws and Their Debates; Athletes, Codes, and Institutions

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-Back — A Consent Workshop for Peers; Scenario Lab — Interrupt, Support, Report

Pregnancy, Pressure & Your Rights

Schools: Youth (written). Adult / Law Enforcement echoes proposed for Years 2–4 only — not built.

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): How pregnancy happens — the plain facts; The decision belongs to the pregnant teen; Pressure is abuse — reproductive coercion; Forcing an ending is a serious crime; Your school rights — you may stay; The other parent's duties — and where to go

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Parenting Young — Rights, Supports, and School Planning; Adoption Law in Depth; Healthcare Navigation for Young Parents

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Reproductive Law Across the States; Coercion Screening in Clinics and Schools; Child Support and Custody Foundations

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Resource Map Project — Every Door in Your Town; Teach-Back — The Rights of Pregnant Students

Abuse in All Its Forms

Schools: Youth (written). Adult / Law Enforcement echoes proposed for Years 2–4 only — not built.

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Abuse is about control; The forms — with teen examples; Dating abuse — and why jealousy is not love; Abuse by adults — the fault is always the adult's; What to do — tell, and keep telling; Helping a friend

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Coercive Control in Depth — Reading the Pattern Early; Protection Orders, Step by Step; Digital Control and the Law

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Trauma and Recovery Basics; Institutional Abuse and Reporting Systems; Advocacy Skills — Helping Without Taking Over

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Safety-Plan Practicum (with a trusted adult); Teach-Back — "Jealousy Is Not Love," a Peer Session

Dating, Waiting & Saying No

Schools: Youth (written). Adult / Law Enforcement echoes proposed for Years 2–4 only — not built.

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What dating is — and what it is not; Waiting for marriage — this school's taught ideal; Abstinence and celibacy — two honorable words, precisely defined; Many partners — the facts, without shame; Saying no — the spine of this unit; The dignity close

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Relationships That Last — Communication and Conflict; Boundaries at Work and Online; Faith, Values, and Your Own Standard

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Marriage Foundations — Law, Money, and Readiness; Media, Culture, and the Hookup Script; Mentoring Younger Teens

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-Back — Saying No With Calm; Personal Standard Statement — Write and Defend Your Own Code

Protection vs. No Protection

Schools: Youth (Teen Life & Law set)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): This school's standard — waiting, and why; What "protection" actually means; No protection — the real numbers; The infections themselves — plain and unembarrassed; Testing — health care, not shame; The outcomes, and the decision that comes before them

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Reading Health Statistics Like a Scientist; Talking With a Doctor — Asking Anything Without Embarrassment; The HPV Vaccine and Preventive Care in Depth

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): How Public-Health Guidance Gets Made — Reading a CDC Page Critically; Consent, Testing, and the Law Across the States; Supporting a Friend Through a Diagnosis or a Pregnancy Scare

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-Back — the Facts and the Standard, Held Together; Community Health Resources Audit — Finding and Verifying Local Doors; Mentor Session — Answering a Younger Student's Hard Question

Your Family — Respect and Divorce

Schools: Youth (Teen Life & Law set)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Respect is a practice, not a feeling; Rules are protection in uniform; The bright exception — respect never means enduring abuse; Divorce — what it actually is; What the research actually shows; Your rights in your parents' divorce — and what helps

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Two Homes, One Life — Schedules, Holidays, and Hand-offs; When Parents Fight — Conflict Skills for the Kid in the Middle; Money After a Split — Child Support and Household Change in Depth

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Reading Family Research Critically — Averages, Risks, and You; Blended Families — Building Respect With Stepparents and Stepsiblings; Helping a Friend Through a Divorce at Home

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-Back — a Pattern Is Not a Prophecy; Your Own Family Charter — the Partner and Parent You Intend to Be; Mentor Session — Sitting With a Freshman in the Storm

Boundaries and Peer Pressure

Schools: Youth (Teen Life & Law set)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): What a boundary is; Know your lines before the moment; Pressure, decoded; Refusal is a craft — skills and scripts; The code-word exit — and digital boundaries; When a line is crossed anyway — and the closing ethic

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Group Chats and Pile-Ons — Digital Pressure in Depth; The Buddy System as a Team Practice — Exits Rehearsed Together; Saying No to Older Teens and Young Adults — Power Gaps

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Images and the Law in Depth — Records That Follow You; Pressure in Relationships — Control Dressed as Closeness; Designing a School Culture Where No Is Normal

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-Back — the Five Scripts From Memory; Build a Code-Word Plan for a Real Family (With Permission); Mentor Session — Coaching a Younger Student's First Party Season

Cars, "Private" Places & the Law

Schools: Youth (Teen Life & Law set)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): A car is not a private room; The camera problem and the "private" places that aren't; The laws that live in parked cars; The lines that do not move with the location; The Do's and Don'ts

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Police Encounters in Vehicles — Rights at the Window; Cameras Everywhere — Dashcams, Doorbells, and the Record You Leave; School Grounds and Posted Places — Trespass in Depth

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Plain View and the Automobile Exception — the Constitutional Map; Comparing States — Public Lewdness and Trespass Laws; When a Prank Becomes a Record — Collateral Consequences

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-Back — the Do's and Don'ts, From Memory to a Friend; Community Audit — Map Your Town's Watched Places; The Ride-Home Plan, Written and Shared

Never Leave Anyone Stranded

Schools: Youth (Teen Life & Law set)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): The ride-home rule; What "stranded" really means; When leaving someone becomes a crime; The passenger who cannot help themselves; If you already left someone; If YOU are the one stranded

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Duties That Follow You — Who the Law Says You Owe Care To; Overdose and Alcohol Poisoning — the First Ten Minutes; Winter, Water, and Distance — Stranding Risks by Season and Place

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Duty to Act Across the States — Comparing Endangerment Laws; Civil Lawsuits After a Stranding — How Harm Becomes a Case; Bystanders and Group Nights Out — Shared Responsibility

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teach-Back — the Ride-Home Rule; Write Your Group's Going-Out Agreement; Mentor Session — Teaching Younger Teens the Passenger Rule

Death & Grief

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement · Youth

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult ("Death & Grief — Losing Someone, and Living After"): What Grief Is — and What It Is Not; The Maps People Made: Stages, Tasks, and Swinging Between Loss and Life; The Many Kinds of Grief; When Someone Dies: The First Days; Funerals, Burial, and Cremation: Your Rights and the Real Costs; Faith and Grief: How Traditions Walk With the Dead and the Living; Coping, Helping Someone Who Grieves, and Knowing When to Get Support · Law Enforcement ("Death Notification & Working With the Grieving"): The Notification: In Person, In Time, In Plain Words; The First Minutes: Family Present at a Sudden-Death Scene; What You Can Say, What the Medical Examiner Decides; When the Death Is One of Your Own: Line-of-Duty Death; The Deaths You Carry: Cumulative Exposure and Officer Grief; After the Notification: Follow-Through and Referrals · Youth ("When Someone Dies — A Young Person's Guide to Grief"): What Death Is, in Plain Words; The People We Lose; The Feelings Are All Allowed; Grief at School and With Friends; Funerals: What Happens, and Your Choices; When Grief Feels Too Big — and Keeping a Friend Safe

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Grieving a Parent, a Partner, a Child, a Friend — Losses in Depth; Grief and the Calendar — Holidays, Anniversaries, and Hard Dates; Supporting Children Through a Death — What Adults Can Do; When the Death Was Sudden or Violent — Extra Weight, Extra Care; Money in the First Year — Bills, Benefits, and Paperwork Without Panic

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): The Business of Death in Outline — Wills, Estates, and Probate, Step by Step; When Families Disagree — Funerals, Remains, and Inheritance Disputes; Faith and Culture in Depth — Rites for the Dead Across Traditions; Traumatic Loss — Care Pathways and Where Each Door Leads; Advance Wishes — Living Wills, Health Care Proxies, and DNR Orders in Plain Words

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Becoming a Grief Companion — Peer Support Skills and Their Limits; Legacy and Life Review — Helping Someone Tell the Story of a Life; Teaching Others — Leading a Community Grief-Literacy Session; The Community Resource Map — Hospice, Bereavement, and Support Doors in Your Town

Housing Stability

Schools: Adult · Youth

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: The lease in plain English; Money at the start — the security deposit law; Roommates, guests, and getting a name off a lease; Repairs and the state sanitary code; Eviction — the only lawful road runs through court; Discrimination in housing — two laws, two doors; When you have nowhere — RAFT, EA, CHAMP, and 211 · Youth: Shaky housing has names — and none of them are shameful; Your school rights — the McKinney-Vento Act; Who to tell — your school liaison is the first name to know; Aging out, and staying safer while you have no fixed place; Shelter and youth help — the official doors

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Reading a Lease Like a Lawyer; Security Deposit Disputes and Small Claims; Rent Withholding Deep Dive; Fair Housing Testing and Evidence; Public Housing and Vouchers in Depth · Youth: Moving Schools Without Losing Credits; Sharing a Home: Rules, Guests, and Respect; Your First Lease at 18; Money Basics for Rent and Deposits

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Eviction Defense Workshop; Housing Court Mediation; Reasonable Accommodations and Assistance Animals; Source-of-Income Discrimination in Massachusetts; Manufactured Housing and Condo Conversions · Youth: College Housing and Dorm Rights; Roommate Agreements That Work; When a Landlord Says No: Discrimination Basics; Foster Youth Benefits and Housing Programs

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Tenant Organizing and Building-Wide Cases; Buying Your First Home Safely; Housing Policy and Local Government; Capstone: A Complete Housing Case File · Youth: Independent Living Capstone; Finding and Keeping Your First Apartment; Helping a Friend Whose Housing Is Shaky

Workplace Rights Starter

Schools: Adult · Youth

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: Your pay — the minimum wage and overtime; When you must be paid — timing, final paychecks, and meal breaks; Wage theft — what it looks like, and the complaint route; Fair treatment — discrimination and harassment at work; Safe work — OSHA rights, reporting injuries, and workers' compensation; Fired, quit, or laid off — unemployment insurance and your own records · Youth: Before your first shift — the work permit; How much you may work — hours by age; Jobs that are off-limits at your age; Your pay — the minimum wage protects you too; If a boss asks for something dangerous or unpaid

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Workplace Rights II — Overtime, Exemptions & Salaried Work; Wage Claims Step by Step — From Complaint to Court; Discrimination & Harassment — Building the Record; Workplace Safety Deep Dive — OSHA Inspections & Whistleblower Protection

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Leaves & Accommodations — FMLA, Paid Family and Medical Leave, and Disability Rights; Unions, Organizing & Collective Bargaining Basics; Noncompetes, Severance & Employment Agreements; Retaliation & Whistleblower Law in Depth

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Employment Law for Supervisors & Small Employers; Youth Work Rights II — From First Job to Career; Public-Sector, Gig & Contract Work Rights

The Family Side of Addiction

Schools: Adult · Law Enforcement

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: A health condition in the family — what is yours to carry, and what is not; Enabling vs helping — the honest distinction; Boundaries that hold — money, housing, babysitting, and vehicles; Naloxone in the home — be ready before the worst ten minutes; Safety when children are in the home; Support for you — your name belongs in the care plan too; When the worst happens — grief, and the truth that you did enough · Law Enforcement: Who you are meeting — a family in a medical emergency, not a suspect pool; The § 34A framework — what the immunity covers, and how it shapes the scene; Compassion as procedure — plain words, and what happens next, explained; After the revival — the minutes families judge, and the information only they hold; Connecting families to resources — and follow-up that actually follows; When the person does not survive — death, notification, and the aftermath; The officer's own exposure — you are also on the family side of this

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Talking With Someone Who Isn't Ready; Families and the Treatment System, Step by Step; Money, Debt, and Financial Safety in a Using Household; Grandparents Raising Grandchildren; When Your Loved One Is Incarcerated

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Supporting Recovery After Treatment — The First Year Home; Families, Probation, and Court-Ordered Treatment; Multiple Losses — Grief Upon Grief; Building a Family Recovery Plan That Survives a Relapse

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Peer Leadership for Family Support Groups; Family Advocacy in the Treatment System; Teaching This Unit — Facilitator Practicum

New Americans

Schools: Adult · Youth (Youth is a family-register adaptation, not a summary of the Adult unit; no Law Enforcement unit in this wave)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: The naturalization path — eligibility in outline; The test itself — English, and the 2025 civics test; Keeping your status — the green card holder's duties; Rights that belong to everyone on this soil; Public charge — the rule as USCIS publishes it today; Notario fraud — and getting real help in Massachusetts · Youth: What the papers mean; Your school cannot turn you away; Helping at home — and the one job that is not yours; If a parent is detained — the family plan; Rights everyone has — even kids, even without papers; Scams that aim at families like yours

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): The Interview Day in Detail; Travel, Reentry, and Protecting Continuous Residence; Family Petitions in Outline; Work Authorization and the Forms Around a Job; Studying for Citizenship — a Full Practice Path

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): When Cases Get Complicated — Waivers, Appeals, and Motions in Outline; Citizenship for Children — Derivation and Acquisition in Outline; Removal Proceedings — What the Process Is; Language Access Rights in Agencies and Courts

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Teaching a Citizenship Class in Your Community; The Family File Audit — a Full Documents Review; Helping Without Practicing Law — the Accredited-Representative Path

Health Navigation Basics

Schools: Adult · Youth adaptation

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult: The vocabulary — eight words that decide what you pay; Coverage in Massachusetts — MassHealth and the Health Connector; Finding care — your PCP, and the right door at the right speed; Your patient rights — consent, records, language, and privacy; Bills and errors — read everything twice, pay once; Prevention — vaccines and screenings, in outline · Youth: Your health team — and the school nurse's door; The money words — a short, honest version; Checkups, shots, and your records; Privacy and consent as you get older; Urgent care, the emergency room, or 911; Speaking up — questions, interpreters, and second opinions

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Reading a plan before you enroll — comparing total yearly cost; Appeals in depth — internal appeals and external review; Prescription coverage — tiers, exceptions, and assistance programs; Dental and vision coverage in depth

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Medicare and MassHealth together — dual coverage in outline; Long-term care and home-health coverage in outline; Coverage through life changes — jobs, marriage, and moves; Hospital billing audits — reading a full itemized statement

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Household coverage review (project); Teach-back — an insurance-words clinic for neighbors; Case-study portfolio — one disputed bill from first EOB to final answer

Phones & the Internet Without Fear

Schools: Adult only — the gentle beginner/elder on-ramp; no separate Law Enforcement or Youth unit in this wave (youth and LE readers are served by their own tracks' digital-safety units)

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): The Gentle Map — What These Things Are; The Five Master Rules; The Grandparent Scam — And a Voice That Can Be Faked; Fake Tech Support — The Screaming Pop-Up; Impostor Agencies — The Never-List; Passwords Made Simple; If It Already Happened — The First Hour, Without Shame

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Email and Text Messages, Step by Step; Shopping and Banking Online Calmly; Video Calls and Family Photos; Privacy Settings With a Helper Beside You

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Helping a Parent or Neighbor — Teaching the Five Rules; When a Loved One Has Been Tricked — The Family Response; New Tricks, Same Rules — Reading FTC Alerts Together

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Library and Senior-Center Teaching Clinic (project); A Household Phone-and-Password Day (project); Teach-Back — The Beginner's Guide in Your Own Words

Learning to Sign — American Sign Language for Everyday Life, Help, and Rights

Schools: Adult (4 units, including the Rights & Respect unit with the course's Cases & Codes) · Youth (1 unit — Signing With Friends: Chapters 1–3 core in youth register + safety signs + school inclusion) · Law Enforcement: no LE unit in Year 1 — stated plainly. The responder phrases (ARE YOU HURT?, WHERE?, WAIT + HELP) live inside the Adult Help, Safety & Health unit; a dedicated LE adaptation is a Year 2 candidate.

Year 1 — Foundations (open now): Adult — First Signs: Welcome — what ASL is, and how this course works; The manual alphabet — fingerspelling A to Z; Numbers 1 to 20; Greetings and courtesy; Introductions — your name, and who you are; How to practice and keep going · Adult — Everyday Life Signs: Family and people; Home and daily life; Food and drink; Time and days; Feelings; Questions and school/work · Adult — Help, Safety & Health Signs: First: get through — saying who you are and asking for writing; Emergency core — the signs for the first minute; Body and health — saying what is wrong and where; People and permission — the interpreter, need, and waiting; How a Deaf person reaches 911 — text, video, and relay; Signs a responder gives back — short phrases · Adult — Rights & Respect: Deaf Culture and the Law: Deaf culture and community — a language community, not a diagnosis; History in outline — a charter, a ban, and a week in March; The right to understand and be understood — effective communication under the ADA; Education and everyday access; How hearing people behave well — the dignity list · Youth — Signing With Friends: Why sign with friends; The alphabet game; First signs for friends; Safety signs; Being a good signing friend

Year 2 — Going Deeper (planned): Conversation — Real Dialogues, Turn by Turn; Time in Depth — the Time Line, Past and Future; Classifiers at Work — People, Vehicles, and Movement in Stories; Community Vocabulary — Church, Clinic, Court, and Work; The LE Adaptation — First Responder Signing (candidate, built from the Year 1 Adult safety unit)

Year 3 — Advanced (planned): Storytelling in ASL — Role Shift, Space, and Visual Vernacular (in outline); How Interpreters Work — Ethics, Accuracy, and the Team; Reading Fluent Signing — Receptive Skills and Fingerspelling at Speed; Deaf History in Depth — Schools, Clubs, and the Road to 1988

Year 4 — Mastery & Application (planned): Community Interpreting Awareness — What Interpreters Do and How to Work With One (awareness only — this school does not certify interpreters, and no unit may imply that it does); Teach-Back — Lead a First Signs Session for Your Community; Accessibility Advocacy Project — Audit One Public Place's Communication Access and Write It Up

1. Cybersecurity Foundations

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 deepen inside Field 1: attack lifecycles and malware families (Y2), risk assessment and security policies (Y3), building a first security programme for a small organisation (Y4).

2. The Cybersecurity Threat Landscape

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4: sector threat pictures and intelligence sources (Y2–3), building an organisational threat brief (Y4) inside Field 1.

3. Cybersecurity Terminology

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4: terminology deepens with each Field 1–4 topic; Year 4 students write a plain-language glossary for beginners.

4. Cybersecurity Careers and Certifications

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4: a personal study pathway and portfolio built across Field 1 and Field 4 topics (Y2–4).

5. Landing Your First Cybersecurity Job

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4: portfolio and pathway work continues across Fields 1, 4, and 5 (Y2–4).

6. Phishing Attacks — Spotting Them Before They Land

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 2: business email compromise and payment fraud (Y3), AI-generated impersonation (Y3), teaching family and team members (Y4).

7. Social Engineering — How People Get Talked Into It

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 2: pretexting in depth (Y2), secure handling of other people's data (Y3), running a household awareness routine (Y4).

8. Malware — What It Is and How It Gets In

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 2: malware delivery and ransomware warning signs in depth (Y2), incident plan writing (Y4).

9. Protecting Your Privacy Online

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 2: privacy settings across devices in depth (Y2), privacy law basics and identity-theft recovery (Y3), writing a personal incident plan (Y4).

10. IoT Devices — Securing the Connected Home

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 2: home-router habits in depth (Y2), secure handling of connected devices for a household (Y4).

11. Cybersecurity at Work

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 2: payment fraud and BEC (Y3), teaching a team (Y4).

12. Building and Managing a Cybersecurity Program

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 3: awareness programme design (this field, Y2), maturity and board reporting (Y3), drafting a full programme plan (Y4).

13. Building a Cybersecurity Awareness Program

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 3: programme design for a real audience (Y2), behaviour-change measurement (Y2–3), presenting a programme review (Y4).

14. Leveraging Security Metrics

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 3: board and leadership reporting (Y3), setting a metrics dashboard and review cycle (Y4).

15. Building Your Cybersecurity Talent Pipeline

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 3: hiring and growing security talent (Y3), talent-pipeline planning project (Y4). Cross-references Field 7 (HR & Talent Management).

16. Learning the OWASP Top 10

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 4: OWASP categories in depth (Y2), secure application design and testing at overview level (Y3), vendor/cloud assessment project (Y4).

17. Cloud Security Operations (CCSP Preparation)

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 4: cloud security operations and monitoring in depth (Y3), a labelled study pathway toward advanced certifications (Y4).

18. LLM Security — Protecting Generative AI Systems

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 4: LLM risks and mitigations in depth (Y3), writing an AI-use security policy (Y4).

19. Cybersecurity Outsourcing — Vendor Selection and Management

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 4: vendor selection and contracts in depth (Y2), third-party risk assessment (Y3), assessing a vendor against a checklist (Y4).

20. CISO Foundations — Influencing the Board and C-Suite

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 4: security leadership and influencing executives (Y3), presenting a risk decision to leadership (Y4).

21. Cybersecurity Awareness: AI — New Tools, New Tricks

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 4 and Field 2: AI risks at work in depth (Y2), recognising AI-generated impersonation (Field 2, Y3).

22. Wireless Networking — Advanced Troubleshooting

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 5: wireless troubleshooting scenarios in depth (Y3), running a support shift in scenarios (Y4).

23. IT Service Desk Careers and Certifications

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 5: an IT-career portfolio and study plan (Y4), supporting non-technical users safely (Y3).

24. Programmable Messaging — How Businesses Text (Twilio Essentials)

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 5: programmable messaging and voice concepts in depth (Y2), privacy and consent in messaging systems (Y3).

25. Programmable Voice — Phone Calls Built by Software (Twilio Essentials)

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 5: voice concepts in depth (Y2), designing a small organisation's communications setup (Y4).

26. Connected-Home Security Systems (Nest Secure)

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 5: connected-home security devices in depth (Y2). Flagged in the report as a product-specific certificate taught through its general skill.

27. Negotiation Foundations

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 6: preparation and non-money terms (Y2), strategy and difficult tactics (Y3), a personal negotiation playbook (Y4).

28. Strategic Negotiation

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 6: strategic negotiation is the Year 3 core of the field; Year 1 gives its foundations, Years 2–4 build preparation, tactics, and team leadership around it.

29. Preparing for Your Negotiations

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 6: full preparation practice in scenarios (Y2), preparing a team (Y4).

30. Negotiating Beyond Money — Time, Respect, and Terms

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 6: non-money negotiation is a Year 2 emphasis; Year 1 foundations here, applied in scenarios across the field.

31. Negotiating with Agility

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 6: agility is a Year 3 emphasis (adapting mid-negotiation in scenarios), grounded here in Year 1.

32. Creating an Employee Handbook

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 7: handbook policy writing in depth (Y2), drafting a complete handbook for a model organisation (Y4).

33. HR Guidelines Everyone Should Know

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 7: hiring/onboarding and grievance handling (Y2–3), auditing a workplace's HR basics (Y4).

34. Talent Management

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 7: talent management is the Year 3 core; Year 1 foundations here, a one-year people plan as the Year 4 project.

35. The Cost of Ignoring Employee Feedback

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 7: feedback systems in depth (Y2), engagement and retention measurement (Y3).

36. Building an Ethics-Based Culture

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 8: designing an ethics and inclusion review (Y3), leading an improvement project (Y4).

37. Supporting Workers with Disabilities

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 8: accommodations in depth (Y2), accessibility beyond the minimum (Y3), inclusion project leadership (Y4).

38. Understanding and Supporting Muslim Colleagues at Work

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 8: religious inclusion across faiths together (Y3), inclusion review project (Y4).

39. How the Workplace Can Help Us Heal and Grow

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 8: trauma-aware workplace design (Y2), culture measurement (Y3).

40. Removing Noise and Bias from Strategic Decision-Making

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 9: checking a decision before it becomes expensive (Y2), strategic choices under uncertainty (Y3).

41. Acing Your Strategy — A Human Approach to Business Planning

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 9: full business/project planning (Y2), producing a strategic plan for a real or model organisation (Y4).

42. Project Management Skills for Leaders

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 9: project roles, schedules, and risks in depth (Y2), leading a project brief-to-delivery in scenarios (Y4).

43. Getting Things Done Inside Bureaucracies

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 9: working inside bureaucracies is a Year 2 emphasis; applied across Advocacy topics in Years 3–4.

44. Sustainability as an Innovation Opportunity

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 9: sustainability assessed honestly as strategy (Y3), innovation project in the Year 4 plan.

45. Public Speaking Foundations

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 10: engaging an audience and handling questions (Y2), persuasive and sensitive-subject speaking (Y3), delivering a full public address (Y4).

46. Magnetic Public Speaking — Engaging Your Audience

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 10: engagement and room-reading are Year 2 emphasis; coaching newer speakers is Year 4.

47. Establishing Credibility as a Speaker

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 10: credibility across a speaker's portfolio (Y4), speaking on sensitive subjects with care (Y3).

48. Presenting Technical Information with Stories

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 10: storytelling structure is a Year 2 emphasis; longer-form teaching talks are Year 3.

49. Communicating with Confidence

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 11: difficult conversations (Y2), communicating in conflict (Y3), a personal communication review (Y4).

50. Impromptu Speaking

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 11: impromptu is a Year 2 emphasis (thinking aloud in an organised way), applied in facilitation practice (Y4).

51. Body Language for Leaders and Managers

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 11: body language in leadership is a Year 2 emphasis; conflict communication applies it in Year 3.

52. Assertive and Likable — Saying It Straight, Kindly

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 11: assertiveness is Year 1 core; applied in difficult conversations (Y2) and conflict (Y3).

53. Asking Skills — How to Ask So People Can Say Yes

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 11: asking skills recur in negotiation preparation (Field 6) and facilitation practice (Y4).

54. Inclusive Language

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 11: inclusive language is Year 1 core, extended to cross-culture and cross-faith communication (Y3).

55. Better Business Writing

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 11: business writing is Year 1 core; applied in PR writing (Field 12) and reports across fields.

56. Business Etiquette — Meetings, Meals, and Networking

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 11: meetings and networking etiquette are a Year 2 emphasis; leading meetings that end with decisions is Year 3.

57. Dream Teams — Working Together without Falling Apart

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 11: team communication and recovery are a Year 3 emphasis; facilitation practice is Year 4.

58. Public Relations Foundations

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 12: media relations practice (Y2), reputation management (Y3), running a complete campaign (Y4). Cross-references its sibling topic 'Public Relations (PR) Foundations'.

59. Public Relations (PR) Foundations — The Practice Core

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 12: campaign planning in depth (Y2), campaign evaluation and honest reporting (Y3–4).

60. Media Relations Foundations

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 12: media relations in practice (Y2), spokesperson work (Y3).

61. How to Write a Press Release

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 12: releases inside campaigns (Y2), difficult stories and corrections (Y3).

62. Media Training Essentials

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 12: interview practice (Y2), spokesperson work and difficult stories (Y3), training a spokesperson (Y4).

63. Public Relations Mistakes to Avoid

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 12: mistakes are a Year 2 emphasis (common PR mistakes and how to avoid them), applied in campaign reviews (Y4).

64. Crisis Communication Planning — After a Ransomware or Cyber Attack

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 13: communicating during a cyber incident in depth (Y2), leading a tabletop exercise end-to-end (Y4).

65. Creating a Communications Strategy

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 13: strategy is the field's Year 1 spine; personalised strategy for the served community is a Year 3 emphasis.

66. External Communication Skills for Leaders

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 13: coaching leaders through mock interviews (Y4), message that survives quotation out of context (Y3).

67. The Media-Savvy Professional — A Message People Remember

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 13: crafting messages that survive quotation is a Year 3 emphasis.

68. Personalizing Your Public Relations Strategy

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 13: personalising strategy to the community served is a Year 3 emphasis, prepared here.

69. Social Media Marketing Foundations

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 14: campaign design across platforms (Y3), running a measured multi-week campaign (Y4).

70. Copywriting for Social Media

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 14: copywriting across formats is a Year 2 emphasis; campaign copy in the Year 4 project.

71. Creating a Creator Media Kit (Canva)

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 14: building a creator media kit is a Year 2 emphasis; a professional media kit is produced in the Year 4 campaign project.

72. Using Generative AI in Public Relations

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 14: AI in PR and content work is a Year 2 emphasis (with disclosure and accuracy checks), extended in Field 15's creative-ethics topic.

73. Releasing and Promoting Your Music

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 15: releasing and promoting step by step is a Year 2 emphasis; a full release project is the Year 4 mastery work.

74. Music Law — Managing a Band's Business

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 15: music law topics are a Year 3 emphasis (contracts, licensing, disputes — general information only).

75. Creative Inspirations — Broadcast Design (Harry Marks)

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 15: learning from established designers' process is a Year 2 emphasis; portfolio and release project work follows in Years 3–4.

76. Generative AI for Creative Content — Opportunities, Issues, and Ethics

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 15: generative AI in creative work is a Year 3 emphasis (opportunities, issues, ethics, disclosure).

77. Credentials of Ministry — Ordination and the Minister's Role

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 16 develop at the Ministry's own pace: ceremonies and pastoral visiting (Y2), advocacy ministry (Y3), leading a ministry project (Y4) — formation records, not student ranks.

78. Starting a Retail Job Well — Onboarding and Welcome

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 17: service skills deepen across the field's topics; coaching newer staff is a Year 3 emphasis.

79. The Customer Promise — Selling a Company's Word Honestly

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 17: explaining a brand's promise in your own words is a Year 2 emphasis.

80. Bringing the Promise to Life — Service Behaviours That Customers Feel

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 17: service recovery after a mistake (Y2), handling a busy floor (Y2), coaching (Y3).

81. Why Us? — Explaining Your Employer's Value Honestly

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 17: ethical selling under target pressure (Y3), improving one store measure at a time (Y3).

82. Week One Wrap-Up — Reviewing, Practising, and Getting Ready

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 17: readiness grows across the field; running a model store day end-to-end is the Year 4 mastery scenario.

83. The Full Store Day — Putting Retail Training Together

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 17: this capstone pattern returns as the Year 4 mastery scenario (open, peak, problem, close).

84. Customer Surveys and Feedback — The RSA's Part

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 17: handling surveys and feedback is a Year 2 emphasis; designing a customer-experience review is Year 4.

85. The Mobile Expert — Deep Knowledge, Taught Plainly

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 17: expert practice deepens with Field 18's device and plan topics; a customer-service portfolio is the Year 4 product.

86. Rate Plans — Reading and Explaining Them Honestly

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 18: leases and end-of-lease options (this field, Y2), billing disputes with records (Y3), a plain-language plan-and-charges guide as the Year 4 product.

87. Devices Part 1 — How Phones Differ and Why It Matters

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 18: device knowledge deepens with Part 2; troubleshooting methodically is a Year 3 emphasis.

88. Devices Part 2 — Matching the Device to the Person

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 18: comparing devices for real needs and budgets is a Year 2 emphasis.

89. Device Deep-Dive — Mastering One Phone (LG G7 ThinQ)

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 18: the deep-dive method transfers to every new device cycle (Fields 17–18, Y2–4). Flagged in the report as a pure product-SKU certificate taught through its general skill.

90. Own Our Network — Coverage, Explained Honestly

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 18: network vs device problems — telling them apart (Y3).

91. End of Lease — Options, Costs, and Honest Advice

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 18: leases, instalments, and end-of-lease options are a Year 2 emphasis.

92. Warranty Exchanges — Making a Bad Day Easier

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 18: warranty and exchange processes are a Year 2 emphasis.

93. Customer Protection Review — Guarding Accounts at the Counter

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 18: protecting customer accounts and fraud warning signs (Y2), a fraud-and-privacy review of store practice (Y4). Cross-references Field 2's social-engineering topic.

94. Store Visit Day — Standards, Audits, and Being Ready

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 18: store operations — stock, displays, cashing up, visit readiness (Y2).

95. Store Operations — Wrap-Up and the Whole Back Room

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 18: supervising store operations and audits (Y3), managing a model store across a scenario week (Y4).

96. Workplace NDAs and Confidentiality Duties

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 18: confidentiality and non-disclosure duties are Year 1 core, applied in the fraud-and-privacy review (Y4).

97. Robbery Prevention and Active-Shooter Response — Retail Awareness

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 19: workplace safety walk-throughs (Y2), safety briefings for a team (Y3), a workplace safety plan from public guidance (Y4). Awareness scope only, at every year.

98. Active Shooter Awareness Training

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4 inside Field 19: prevention planning and team briefings (Y2–3), a model premises safety plan (Y4) — public-guidance scope throughout.

99. Finishing School — Diplomas, Vocational-Technical Education, and Second-Chance Pathways

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Later years: this is a pathways topic; it feeds the Free Pathways Guide and Field 5/7 career topics rather than a four-year sequence of its own.

100. Automotive Technology — How Cars Work and How to Care for Them

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4: a standalone elective sequence — owner-level maintenance planning (Y2), understanding diagnostics and estimates (Y3), a personal vehicle-care portfolio (Y4).

101. Nutrition Education — Steps Toward Health (CHOICES)

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4: a health-literacy elective — family meal planning (Y2), label and claims criticism (Y3), a household food plan (Y4).

102. Designing and Planning Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs)

Year 1 (this unit — open now). Years 2–4: a standalone housing elective — a model ADU plan study (Y2), permit-process walk-through (Y3), a complete paper project (Y4).

The municipal and state officer's classroom: the Constitution first, then law, communication, and judgment. Extends the Law Enforcement school's 12 sections; does not repeat them.

Year 1 — Foundations: ● The Constitutional Officer: Rights That Limit and Guide Police Power · ● Criminal Law Foundations: Elements of a Crime, Intent, and Proof · ● Communication and De-escalation: The Officer's First Tools · ● Ethics, Discretion, and Procedural Justice

Year 2 — Deeper practice: ○ Community Policing and Problem-Solving · ○ Criminal Procedure: Search, Seizure, and Statements · ○ Report Writing and Court Testimony · ○ Crisis Intervention and Mental-Health Calls

Year 3 — Advanced study: ○ Investigations Overview: Evidence and the Law · ○ Traffic Law and Fair Stops · ○ Juvenile Justice and Schools · ◆ Advanced Constitutional Case-Law Updates

Year 4 — Mastery & leadership: ◆ First-Line Supervision and Leadership · ◆ Internal Accountability and Early Intervention · ◆ Teaching and Mentoring Recruits · ○ Capstone: Community Trust Audit

What makes a crime federal, how federal investigations stay inside the Constitution, and how the Bureau answers to victims and communities.

Year 1 — Foundations: ● Federal Jurisdiction: What Makes a Crime Federal · ● Federal Criminal Law Overview: Fraud, Civil Rights, and Public Corruption · ● Investigations in a Constitutional Frame: Warrants, Interviews, and Rights · ● Victims and Communities: The Victim-Centered Approach

Year 2 — Deeper practice: ○ White-Collar and Fraud Investigations — Overview · ○ Cybercrime Overview (FBI IC3 public material) · ○ Counterterrorism and Civil Liberties · ○ Interviewing and the Law of Statements

Year 3 — Advanced study: ○ Public Corruption and Accountability · ○ Organized Crime and RICO — Overview · ◆ Intelligence Oversight and the Public FISA Frame · ◆ Advanced Federal Legal Updates

Year 4 — Mastery & leadership: ◆ Supervisory Special Agent Leadership · ◆ Interagency and Joint-Task-Force Work · ◆ Teaching Constitutional Investigations · ◆ Capstone: Mock Case Review

The classroom around tactical work: why these teams exist, the law that limits them, negotiation before force, and honest review afterward. No tactics are taught in any tier — this track teaches decisions, law, and accountability.

Year 1 — Foundations: ● Why Tactical Teams Exist: Mission, History, and Strict Limits · ● Crisis and Barricade: Negotiation First · ● The Law of the High-Risk Call: Warrants, Exigency, and the Fourth Amendment · ● After the Call: Review, Documentation, and Community Trust

Year 2 — Deeper practice: ○ Hostage and Crisis Negotiation Foundations · ○ Decision-Making Under Uncertainty · ○ Legal Updates: Warrants and Exigent Circumstances · ○ Casualty-Care Awareness (public TECC concepts, awareness level only)

Year 3 — Advanced study: ◆ Team Leadership and Selection Ethics · ◆ After-Action Case Studies (publicly released reports) · ◆ Policy Writing: Deployment Thresholds

Year 4 — Mastery & leadership: ◆ Instructor Foundations · ◆ Regional Standards and Accreditation Study · ◆ Capstone: Policy and Review Board Simulation

Study material for the EMT classroom, built from public standards and study sources. These units are educational study material only — they are not EMT certification, do not qualify anyone to practice, and never replace certified hands-on training.

Year 1 — Foundations: ● The EMS System and the EMT's Role: Scope of Practice and Medical Oversight · ● Patient Assessment Foundations: The Systematic Approach · ● Medical Emergencies: Recognition When Minutes Matter · ● Consent, Refusals, and Privacy: The Legal and Ethical Frame

Year 2 — Deeper practice: ○ Trauma Assessment — Overview · ○ Airway and Breathing — Study Unit · ○ Cardiac Emergencies — Study Unit · ○ Special Populations: Children, Elders, and Behavioral Emergencies

Year 3 — Advanced study: ○ Pharmacology Literacy — Study Unit · ○ Mass-Casualty Incidents and ICS for EMS · ○ Documentation and Legal Exposure · ◆ Advanced Study: ECG Literacy Concepts

Year 4 — Mastery & leadership: ◆ EMS Leadership and Quality Improvement · ○ Community Paramedicine Concepts · ◆ Preceptor and Instructor Foundations · ◆ Capstone: Case Review Seminar

The fire-service classroom: fire science, prevention, command foundations, and a safety culture that brings everyone home. Study material only — not firefighter certification and never a substitute for certified academy training.

Year 1 — Foundations: ● Fire Behavior Foundations: The Science Every Student Learns First · ● Fire Prevention and Public Education: The First Mission · ● Incident Command Foundations: ICS-100 Concepts · ● Firefighter Health, Safety Culture, and the Ethics of Risk

Year 2 — Deeper practice: ○ Building Construction for Fire Students · ○ Fire Protection Systems — Overview · ○ Wildland–Urban Interface Basics · ○ Fire Investigation Awareness and the Law

Year 3 — Advanced study: ○ Hazardous Materials Awareness (public DOT Emergency Response Guidebook) · ○ Technical Rescue Awareness · ◆ Fire Officer Study: Leadership and Codes · ◆ Line-of-Duty-Death Lessons-Learned Seminar (public reports)

Year 4 — Mastery & leadership: ◆ Chief Officer Study · ○ Community Risk Reduction Planning · ◆ Instructor Foundations · ○ Capstone: Community Risk Audit

The Department's mission taught in the open: preparedness, the national incident system, and the civil-liberties guardrails that come with the work.

Year 1 — Foundations: ● What Homeland Security Is: Mission, History, and the Constitutional Frame · ● NIMS and ICS: The National Incident Management System · ● Preparedness and Community Resilience: The Whole-Community Approach · ● Civil Liberties and Oversight: Privacy, Rights, and Accountability

Year 2 — Deeper practice: ○ Risk and Threat Basics — Public Frameworks · ○ Critical Infrastructure Protection — Overview (CISA public material) · ○ Community-Level Emergency Planning · ○ Grants and the Preparedness System

Year 3 — Advanced study: ◆ Intelligence and Information Sharing — The Public Oversight Frame · ○ Border and Transportation Security — Overview · ○ Cybersecurity Awareness for Public Servants (CISA public material)

Year 4 — Mastery & leadership: ◆ Senior Leadership Seminars · ○ Exercise Design — HSEEP Public Framework · ○ Capstone: A Community Resilience Plan

The immigration system taught whole — agencies, pathways, courts, and rights — with the humanitarian protections at its center, in the spirit of this school's ministry.

Year 1 — Foundations: ● The Immigration System Map: Agencies, Roles, and the Law's Big Pieces · ● Pathways and Statuses: Family, Work, and Humanitarian · ● Rights in Encounters: Due Process, Interpreters, and Consular Notification · ● Humanitarian Protection: Asylum, Trafficking Victims, and Vulnerable People

Year 2 — Deeper practice: ○ The Removal Process and Immigration Court · ○ Detention Standards and Oversight — Public Sources · ○ Families and Children: The Public Policy Frame · ○ Working With Interpreters and Language Access

Year 3 — Advanced study: ◆ Document-Fraud Awareness at the Review Level — Public Concepts · ◆ Trafficking Investigations: The Support Role · ◆ Immigration Legal Updates Seminar

Year 4 — Mastery & leadership: ◆ Leadership and Community Trust · ◆ Policy Writing for Public Servants · ◆ Capstone: Humanitarian Case Review Seminar

The border mission taught with its law and its humanitarian reality side by side: authority, limits, rescue, and accountability.

Year 1 — Foundations: ● The Border Patrol Mission: History, Authority, and Legal Limits · ● Humanitarian Realities: Rescue and Migrants in Distress · ● Constitutional Limits at the Border: Checkpoints, Stops, and the Fourth Amendment · ● Integrity and Oversight: Use-of-Force Policy and Accountability

Year 2 — Deeper practice: ○ Immigration Law for Border Students · ○ Terrain, Environment, and Survival Awareness (public safety material) · ○ Checkpoints and Transportation Checks — The Law · ○ Working With Border Communities

Year 3 — Advanced study: ◆ Smuggling and Trafficking Organizations — Overview From Public Sources · ◆ Use-of-Force Policy Deep Study (the public policy text) · ◆ Border Legal Updates Seminar

Year 4 — Mastery & leadership: ◆ Supervision and Accountability Systems · ◆ Instructor Foundations · ◆ Capstone: Community and Humanitarian Review

The Service's two public missions — protection and financial-crime investigation — taught through its published science: the National Threat Assessment Center's public research on preventing targeted violence. No protective operations of any kind are taught in any tier; this track teaches the published prevention science and the law.

Year 1 — Foundations: ● Two Missions: Protection and Financial Crimes — The Secret Service Story · ● Protective Intelligence and Threat Assessment: The Public Science · ● Financial Crimes Foundations: Counterfeit, Fraud, and Electronic Crimes · ● The Protectee's Rights and the Public's: Constitutional Balance in Protective Work

Year 2 — Deeper practice: ○ Behavioral Threat Assessment Case Studies (NTAC public reports) · ○ Counterfeit and Fraud Trends — Public Sources · ○ Cyber-Enabled Financial Crime — Overview · ○ Event Safety at the Planning-Concept Level (public safety literature)

Year 3 — Advanced study: ◆ Advanced Threat Assessment Seminar · ◆ Protective Research Methods (published NTAC methodology) · ◆ Legal and Ethics Updates

Year 4 — Mastery & leadership: ◆ Leadership in Protective Organizations · ◆ Teaching Threat Assessment to Agencies and Schools · ○ Capstone: A Targeted-Violence Prevention Plan for a School or Community

For every public servant: how the government is built, the ethics that bind it, the records that belong to the people, and how to serve the public well.

Year 1 — Foundations: ● How Government Is Built: Federalism, Branches, and the Constitution at Work · ● Ethics for Public Servants: Conflicts of Interest, Gifts, and the Hatch Act · ● Public Records, Privacy, and FOIA: The People's Right to Know · ● Serving the Public: Communication, Accessibility, and Language Access

Year 2 — Deeper practice: ○ Federalism in Practice: Federal, State, and Local · ○ Budgets and Procurement Basics — Public Sources · ○ Rulemaking and Public Comment · ○ Working With Elected Officials and the Public

Year 3 — Advanced study: ○ Program Evaluation and Evidence · ○ Emergency Roles for Every Employee (FEMA public material) · ◆ Public-Service Leadership Foundations

Year 4 — Mastery & leadership: ◆ Senior Service Seminar · ◆ Teaching Public Ethics · ○ Capstone: A Service Improvement Project