MH Safe’s addendum campaigns model was first documented in the 2022 CPR Institute’s Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation article, “Five Strategies Dispute Resolvers Can Use to Vet Guidance and Prevent Misconduct” and the 2024 article “Mistakes? Tools CLE Accreditors and Law Journals Can Use to Prevent and Address Inadvertently Discriminatory Dispute Resolution Guidance.”
The addendum model recognizes that it may be hard for publishers and organizations to retract, update, remove, or otherwise respond to damaging content they have already disseminated – so, instead, they can more easily distribute “addendum” content that supplements the other material in an effort to reduce the harm.
MH Safe prepares addendum campaigns teaching the following core principles of preventing invasions of privacy, impediments to communication, and inaccessibility responding to accommodation requests (the three I’s):
To learn more about content vetting and addendums, visit https://www.mhsafe.org/drguidance, which explains various work MH Safe has done to encourage content updates in the dispute resolution and legal communities and includes copies of the articles mentioned above.