HEART Divisions

Stewardship bodies, not standards artifacts

Current domain set

Eight Domain Profiles v1.0 are current. Their corresponding stewardship identities are transition candidates under Division Specification v2.0.

The existence of a current Domain Profile does not, by itself, prove that a Division has satisfied every institutional-capacity condition for ACTIVE status. Status requires a separate authorized and public record.

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.