Definition
A piece is one recorded fact of an organization’s Jigsaw — something the system knows and keeps true: a value, a site, a risk zone, a control, a meeting record. Every piece appears on the Puzzle Board, and every piece belongs to one of six containers:
- DNA — who you are: your Scope, Vision, and Values.
- Organization Model — how your organization runs: activities, resources, partnerships.
- Day-to-day — the daily reality: the people you serve, the adults around them, and the sites, spaces, timelines, and steps where everything actually happens.
- Sexual Abuse Risks — the risk zones, risk sets, and existential threats your team has identified.
- Controls — everything you rely on to keep people safe.
- Doing — the system in action: meetings, reviews, flagged items, incident records, and the candidate controls still being developed.
Pieces connect, and the connections are the point. A control connects to the risk zone it serves; a risk zone connects to the steps and spaces where it lives. A risk with no control connected to it shows up on the board as an orphan, outlined and counted — because that is exactly what it is.
Why This Matters
The piece is the system’s unit of truth. Monitoring, reviewing, and the GMR all read pieces, so every piece carries the same obligation: its record says what is true today, and it is adapted when reality moves. A Jigsaw is never finished, by design — pieces keep being added, adapted, connected, and reviewed for as long as the organization runs.
The word element names the categories pieces belong to — Scope, Vision, Intake, Training, and the rest — the types, not the things.
Related Entries
- The Puzzle Board
- Adaptation
- Missing Pieces (Orphans)
- The Picture on the Box