AIM Framework glossary
Proactive Cascading Support
Canonical definition
Proactive Cascading Support is Cascading Support applied before or during crisis rather than after the act: A-restoration, I-enablement, M-containment and Knowledge Patch dissemination, in that order. The ordering is load-bearing: A-Floor security comes first because A-desperation amplifies M-susceptibility through Phenomenological Collapse, where I-Override cannot gain traction. It operates through legitimate, sovereignty-preserving channels and addresses architectural parameters (A-sufficiency, I-access, M-bounding, Hypothesis Space expansion), not Content. Because the field-correction logic refers to no scale, it applies alike to a household, a community and a population, and it reaches the field around a generating node as well as the field around those it would harm.
Explanation
Helping people before a crisis rather than cleaning up afterwards: securing their basic needs, giving them access to meaningful activity, giving them the words to recognise status competition for what it is, and reducing their exposure to it. It works through ordinary channels such as investment, education and support, and never requires overriding anyone's choices. The same help goes to the family and community of someone who has done harm, because that is where the next round would otherwise start.
Epistemic status
Proposed Intervention.
Derivation
Chapter 17, Section 17.17.4; Chapter 16, Section 16.15; Appendix A, Sections A.5.5 and A.6.4.