"Man....___ Jesse Jackson!"
Posted on 07/30/2022 12:11:53 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Dozens of Minnesota barbers and hairstylists received training this week to be mental health advocates in the Black community.
On Monday, the participants gathered at the Sabathani Community Center in Minneapolis for training with The Confess Project, a nationwide initiative, and community partners.
The project is dedicated to building a better mental health culture for Black boys and men through barber shops.
Partners in Minnesota are expanding the focus to include hairstylists and their clients.
“You get some of those clients that are like ‘Hey, give me a haircut and get me out of here,’ but most of the time it’s just like a therapy session,” Flint’e Smith, Right Choice Cutz barber, said.
The community calls Right Choice Cutz in Crystal a safe space.
Clients trust Smith to give them a clean cut and a listening ear.
“I feel like a therapist sometimes just listening to some of these people’s problems and trying to refer them,” Smith said.
Smith is an ambassador for the The Confess Project.
In the program, barbers and hairstylists are trained to spot mental health challenges from the moment a client sits in the chair. They also have the tools to point them in the direction of mental health resources.
“Some folks talk to their barbers and stylists about things they don’t talk to anybody else about,” Larry Tucker, Kente Circle CEO and therapist, said.
Kente Circle is a mental health agency in Minneapolis.
He said he partnered up with The Confess Project to raise mental health awareness in the Black community because most are hesitant to get care. Tucker believes part of the reasoning dates back to slavery.
“Back then it just wasn’t safe for us to let people know that we weren’t okay. Families were separated from each other when they were seen as defective or unhealthy,” Tucker said. “Folks have experienced it not being safe to talk with people about their issues because of the trauma that exists within our families and communities.”
He said finding Black therapists to talk to is also a challenge because there’s a shortage of mental health providers of color.
Tucker said the point of the project is to reduce stigmas, break barriers and meet people where they are. “There’s nothing wrong with you. Something happened to you and getting help is okay,” Tucker said.
I honestly haven’t. I have been cutting my own hair for a couple decades now.
Seems to me people who let a guy with a straight razor near their necks ought to be concerned about his mental health.
I talked to my last barber about hunting and guns. I guess that will be off the table now.
they,’re serious about this. The first thing a barber will say now will be to ask you how you voted.
I immediately got a flashback of Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall...
"Man....___ Jesse Jackson!"
“It’s actually a good plan, as long as it’s not secular psychobabble run by the government.”
We Don’t know where the money comes from but the theme is racial justice ...
Also, your priest isn’t your therapist.
“The project is dedicated to building a better mental health culture for black boys and men through barber shops.”
How about a FATHER IN THE HOME? How about getting married FIRST, then procreating? Has THAT occurred to anyone?
(I know. That’s Hate Speech, Right? No wonder I keep getting booted off Facebook, LOL!)
Keep speaking the truth, Sister!!
LOL! Cute. :)
Banned twice in five days. A new record for me. I’m doing my part. ;)
Training them to be mini psychiatrists is not going to work. The profession accepts the idea that a man who deludes himself to think he’s a woman is actually sane and must be supported in his delusion.
There is something better than psychiatry, and it has existed as long as there have been humans: the ear of friends and family.
Otherwise, this sounds like an idea that can work.
My neighbor here in MO was cleaning a male coon for the hide. He cut it’s peder out, held it up and said “you know what we call this?” I said “no.” He said “an Arkansas toothpick.”
“That's the problem with your whole generation. You know, y'all, you don't believe in nothin'. But your father, he believed in something. He believed and understood that something as simple as a little haircut could change the way a man felt on the inside.”
-- Barbershop (2002)
Pink Floyd was the band, not the barber!
If the cops can’t find a social worker to negotiate a kidnapping, they can just call a shampoo lady.
A lot of them probably are. I remember a Cuban barber in Florida...let him catch you eyeballing the girl cutting hair next to him and your ear would get nicked.
How about a “don’t have children out of wedlock” advocates?
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