Let Community Drive the Work

About this episode

This episode explores how local efforts can drive systemic change in mental health and community practices.

All across Texas, people are showing that you don’t have to wait for change from the top down — you can build it from the ground up. And when local efforts succeed, they don’t just transform a workplace, a neighborhood, a classroom — they offer a template for reimagining the system itself. In this episode Larissa Minner, an expert on disability research and universal design, joins us for an exploration of how small-scale changes to everyday practice can catalyze deeper change not only to lives, but to systems. Related Links: Designing for Mental Health Shared Inquiry: A Better Way to Learn Community-Based Participatory Research

People in this episode

Guest: Larissa Minner

Topics covered

• community change
• disability research
• universal design
• mental health
• system transformation

Keywords

• Texas
• small-scale changes
• everyday practice
• catalyze change

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Designing for Mental Health, Shared Inquiry: A Better Way to Learn, Community-Based Participatory Research

Places: Texas

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