HEART Divisions

Connected knowledge and educational stewardship

Retained division identities and domain references

The education-first division/domain stewardship specification remains proposed for Board review. The eight identities below remain useful routes into existing domain material. Their linked v1.0 profiles are retained as versioned research and standards references; a webpage does not establish institutional adoption or operational capacity.

The six cross-division territories connect knowledge and educational work across those identities rather than creating six additional organizations. Actual staffing, contributions and responsibilities need their own scoped records. Current mission and governance status.

What a Division maintains

• domain scope and terminology;
• source, research, and evidence maps;
• risks, harms, protective factors, and affected populations;
• method validation and professional competence needs;
• a living research agenda and evidence ledger;
• versioned Domain Profiles and proposed changes;
• affected-community, practitioner, regional, and cross-domain participation; and
• succession, review, merger, dormancy, and retirement paths.

What a Division cannot do by itself

A Division is not a separate Standard, conformity scheme, credential, Guardian specialty, scoring system, method stack, commercial practice area, or permanent claim over a field. It cannot issue official HEART conformity or Registry status unless a separate competent scheme expressly delegates that authority.

Research may change continuously; normative Profile content changes only through the Profile governance process.