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Community story consent review worksheet
A browser-only planning worksheet for nonprofits, schools, campuses, and community organizations to review intended uses, participant choice, story context, and potential harm before publication.
A participant-centered review before publication
Use Cairnwire’s ethical storytelling brief as a guide while your team names the specific story purpose and use, makes refusal and changing consent safe, invites the participant to review the proposed story, and checks whether voice, context, or risks could create harm. If an important concern is unresolved, pause and revisit the story.
Prompts to use
- Describe each intended channel, audience, partner, and period of use in plain language.
- Offer time and a consequence-free way to decline, pause, set boundaries, or change consent.
- Show the participant the proposed story and related materials before publication.
- Keep the person’s voice and context intact; consider misrepresentation, stigma, exposure, and other foreseeable harm.
Ethical planning aid, not legal advice
This worksheet supports an ethical planning conversation. It is not legal advice and does not determine whether a release, publication, or reuse complies with law. Confirm organization-specific and local obligations with qualified counsel and the people affected by the story.
Editable, browser-only worksheet
Review the story before it is shared
Work through the prompts with the people responsible for the story and, where appropriate, the participant and community partners. Blank responses are questions to resolve, not a score or a compliance result.
Your answers stay in this page’s in-memory state. Cairnwire does not collect, transmit, submit, or save them. Refreshing this page clears the responses.
This is an ethical planning aid, not legal advice or a determination of legal compliance. Confirm the obligations and choices relevant to your organization and the people represented in the story.
Guidance: Cairnwire’s completed ethical storytelling brief. Its practices are planning guidance, not legal standards or a compliance determination.
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