Build a durable support and backup plan
Create regular connection, maintenance, professional resources, emergency contacts, and backups for a likely difficult situation.
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During the course primer, listen for ideas that change how you approach “Build a durable support and backup plan.” Pause once to capture a useful point, then apply it while producing a 90-day connection calendar and one scenario backup plan with roles, scripts, permissions, access barriers, and review date.What this lesson is really solving.
Create regular connection, maintenance, professional resources, emergency contacts, and backups for a likely difficult situation. This is lesson 6 because later decisions depend on a 90-day connection calendar and one scenario backup plan with roles, scripts, permissions, access barriers, and review date. A network becomes reliable through maintenance and prepared access, not a contact list alone. Use your own numbers, files, environment, and constraints so the result survives outside the course.
Understand the idea before touching the steps.
A network becomes reliable through maintenance and prepared access, not a contact list alone.
Follow these steps in order.
Take the action in each step; then use the deliverable below to prove the lesson is finished.
- 1
Schedule a realistic rhythm of messages, calls, shared activities, gratitude, introductions, service, and follow-through across different relationships.
- 2
For one likely challenge, assign primary and backup emotional, practical, informational, professional, transport, and emergency support with permission where needed.
- 3
Store contacts securely and offline, review the plan quarterly, update changed relationships, and add crisis or emergency services separately.
See the standard in context.
Drew sets monthly mentor check-ins, weekly group attendance, two emergency ride contacts, and a clinic number saved offline. The learner saves a 90-day connection calendar and one scenario backup plan with roles, scripts, permissions, access barriers, and review date and notes the evidence or assumption behind the choice so it can be reviewed and improved later.
Inspect before you move on.
- The finished work visibly includes a 90-day connection calendar and one scenario backup plan with roles, scripts, permissions, access barriers, and review date.
- You tested the work against this common failure: Collecting names without maintaining relationships, checking availability, or planning what happens when the first person cannot help.
- Another person could verify this mastery standard: The plan has recurring connection actions, at least two paths for the priority need, and appropriate professional and emergency boundaries.
Your deliverable
A 90-day connection calendar and one scenario backup plan with roles, scripts, permissions, access barriers, and review date.
Watch for this
Collecting names without maintaining relationships, checking availability, or planning what happens when the first person cannot help.
Prove it—don’t just recognize it.
The plan has recurring connection actions, at least two paths for the priority need, and appropriate professional and emergency boundaries.
Quick knowledge check
Answer from the lesson—not from confidence alone. Score at least 2 of 3 to unlock completion.
This curriculum-aligned check is scored automatically and stored with your account when signed in. It is an objective learning signal, but it has not yet been independently validated as a standardized assessment.
Tools, templates, and references
Pass the knowledge check above first.
Completion unlocks after a score of 2 out of 3. Then confirm that you produced the lesson deliverable.
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