Community Resiliency Through Organizing and Action: Mental Health and Social Control in Skid Row, Los Angeles, California
The objective of this thesis is to explore community agency and resiliency through organizing and action centered around reclaiming spaces and experiences by examining the limitations of the current mental health model used to classify, contain, criminalize, and control individuals into specific categories while using this status to control populations by monitoring behavior and withholding services. Author: Ashleigh L. Hall, Prescott College.