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Designing With—Not For: How Peer Support is Revolutionizing Behavioral Health Spaces Interview with Sydney Harris and Parker LaCombe
It’s easy to forget who we’re really designing for—especially in behavioral health, where the stakes are high and the people we serve are too often left out of the process. In this episode, Parker LaCombe and Sydney Harris of Mind Care Connect reveal how co-design that engages those with lived experience is rewriting the rules of behavioral health architecture.
Design can either amplify power dynamics or become an equalizer. Including people with lived experience prevents assumptions and creates more balanced, empathetic spaces.
Co-design is a feedback loop, not a one-time input. Maintaining communication ensures participants know how their voices shaped the outcome—even when every request can’t be met.
Work with Mind Care Connect: https://www.mindcareconnect.org
Contact Parker: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parker-lacombe/
Contact Sydney: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydney-h-6a3a3a61/
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Angela
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It’s easy to forget who we’re really designing for—especially in behavioral health, where the stakes are high and the people we serve are too often left out of the process. In this episode, Parker LaCombe and Sydney Harris of Mind Care Connect reveal how co-design that engages those with lived experience is rewriting the rules of behavioral health architecture.
Design can either amplify power dynamics or become an equalizer. Including people with lived experience prevents assumptions and creates more balanced, empathetic spaces.
Co-design is a feedback loop, not a one-time input. Maintaining communication ensures participants know how their voices shaped the outcome—even when every request can’t be met.
Work with Mind Care Connect: https://www.mindcareconnect.org
Contact Parker: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parker-lacombe/
Contact Sydney: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydney-h-6a3a3a61/
💡Give Architecting a Google review- be sure to name the episode! https://g.page/r/CVYGVmEtsUjdEAI/review
Stay Inspired,
Angela
Join the architecting community:
YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, Clubhouse, Facebook
Interested in sponsoring a show or having me as a guest on your podcast or community? Stop here to get information.
Into/outro music Alive by Richard Wasson Copyright 2019
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