Designing Care that Works: A Step-by-Step Guide to Building Programs Heal

Across healthcare, mental health, housing, education, and justice systems, professionals are working harder than ever-yet outcomes remain inconsistent, fragmented, and unsustainable. Why? Because most programs are designed in isolation... while people live at the intersection of systems.In Designing Care That Works, Mardoche Sidor, MD, Karen Dubin, PhD, LCSW, and the SWEET Institute offer a powerful, practical, and deeply human framework for building programs that actually deliver results-consistently, sustainably, and at scale.Through real-world examples, step-by-step tools, and an integrative model grounded in science and experience, this book will help you:Design programs that move from idea to implementationImprove engagement, retention, and outcomesAlign teams, workflows, and systemsBuild sustainable and scalable models of careClose the gaps where people fall throughThe goal is not to do more.The goal is to build something that works.