Usefulness
The page should help a family, helper, provider, official, or reviewer choose a safer next step without needing a private story from them.
PUBLIC REVIEW QUALITY
Publish only what helps families and earns public trust.
This checklist keeps FOCaF practical, child-first, source-aware, and safe for public review. It prevents thin local pages, unsupported claims, private intake, and reform language that outruns the family-help mission.
QUALITY GATES
Before publishing a new public page, make sure it earns trust.
Boundaries
It must preserve safety, trauma, coercive-control, fear, developmental, and mixed-dynamics realities. It should not flatten every case into one explanation.
Traceability
Public claims should point to sources, official doors, or clear limitations. Local pages need verified local context before indexing.
REVIEW CHECKLIST
The public-page checklist.
1. Family help first
Does the page offer one practical next step before reform language?
2. No private intake
Does it avoid asking for names, allegations, medical details, sealed records, or confidential court material?
3. Safety preserved
Does it route emergencies, crisis, abuse-safety concerns, and professional obligations outside the site?
4. Child burden reduced
Does it keep children from documenting adult conflict, choosing sides, or carrying messages?
5. No legal advice
Does it avoid telling people what to file, what outcome they should seek, or how a court will rule?
6. Public review separated
Does the page clearly separate FOCaF public education from the JT for ME campaign and bill-form lane?
LOCAL AND SOURCE CHECKS
Stop thin pages and unsupported claims before they spread.
Maine local pages
A local page should include county context, official court or resource links, legal-aid and 211 routing, crisis boundaries, school/provider context where appropriate, and a last-reviewed date.
Review Maine coverageResearch and claims
A claim should show source strength, limitations, and what the source does not prove. Advocacy claims should not be presented as settled fact.
Review sourcesPUBLICATION DECISION
Publish, revise, or hold.
Publish
The page is practical, sourced, static, accessible, non-extractive, and safe for a stressed family to read.
Revise
The page is useful but needs clearer official routing, less dense language, better boundaries, or stronger local/source support.
Hold
The page depends on private stories, asks for case details, overclaims, risks child burden, or could confuse urgent safety decisions.