Organizational Development Of Clinics

A global network of Clinics will need to be created using the best organizational technologies to maintain their sustainability and the quality of their services.

Vision. Our vision includes a global network of Clinics for Sustainable Families operating at the local community level in all democratic nations. Because of the universal nature of the seven values of social sustainability, clinics can replicate the core teaching, training, and enculturation program while incorporating cultural differences.

Intention. The intention of these clinics is to teach each new generation the best practices of child rearing and to use the 7 values of social sustainability to raise contented, curious, capable, and socially responsible children to age 20, who also know how to raise their eventual children with the same capability. The intention is to create a global culture change primarily in democratic nations and secondly in their adversaries. Change begins from within.

Operating Philosophy. Socially self-sustaining societies and nations are best developed in safe, caring, capable families. The peace of nations is best assured when each generation is enculturated with the values of social sustainability and fully aware of their socially sustainable responsibilities to future generations.

Mission: To provide remedial training and education to individuals and families, generation after generation, that increase the socially sustainable functioning of families from one generation to the next.
Such training and education provide child rearing and parenting skills for each era of the child’s eventual life from the era of pre-conception through the age of separation from their family at approximately age 20; and then through the continuum of life into their elder years.

Immediate Objectives

1. The first objective contains two research activities: 1) to begin a review of social science of the last two centuries in search of research findings for the “best practices” of child rearing, parenting, and family dynamics that produce contented, curious, competent, and socially responsible children who are ready to leave home and enter society on their own; 2) to begin a search of present-time indigenous wisdom of best practices with the same goals.

2. The second objective is to begin developing training materials for each and every phase and era of human development from pre-conception through age 20 for use by parents-to-be, parents, grandparents, children, and educational settings from diaper daycare through secondary education. These materials will be at their best when they apply the wisdom of the social sciences and indigenous wisdom in pragmatic, practical ways that can be understood by those who are literate; and by those who learn by example.

3. Validated research materials will be received by the Library of Sustaining Human Wisdom where it will be organized, catalogued, and made available on line to staff, clients, Local Community Design and Validation Teams for the projects they are working on, and the public. The Library then becomes the source for validated materials: societal-social, political-governmental, financial-economic, and any other genres of materials that have been validated before submission to the Library.

(Also see, 27.3 Democracy for 2017,    p 11 & 13. 4

Delayed but Coincident Objectives, #1

As the two research programs begin development, validated best practices will be shared with teaching/training lesson writers who will begin developing teaching and training media.

4. These materials will be copyrighted and published for parents, the pubic, educational institutions, and others.

5. These materials will be developed in various multi-media forms including video games, home board games, children’s story books, etc.

6. The topic matter of these publications will include all areas of interest for growing up and becoming a parent.

7. It will be interesting to see if there will develop some sort of agreement between the social science research and the indigenous wisdom of dozens of cultures for raising children to become effective and responsible adults.

Delayed and Coincident Objectives, #2

The first people to be trained using these new training materials will be the staff who will open the first Clinic for Sustainable Families. They will become the local community clinic trainers, counselors, mentors, and advisors who will then begin working with local community human resources agencies and informing them of our presence and the work that we do in the clinic.

8. Locate and secure sites for the first three clinics (Golden, Colorado, USA; Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia; and Cape Town, South Africa).

9. Hire staff for the Clinic, perhaps from the Social Science and Indigenous Research staff.

10. Open for business.


4 Raphael, Daniel 2017. 27.3 Democracy for 2017 is available free as a PDF from: [email protected] or Academia.edu (16 pages, 4,000 words)