‘You build relationships’: New Haven hair stylists, barbers asked to help with mental health

NEW HAVEN — There are some professionals whose clients find it easy to talk to them and are willing to share a confidence they might not want others to know.

Clergy, almost by definition fit that category, but then there are about beauty salons and barber shops — those refuges from a tough week where quiet personal conversations can occur or break into a communal discussion — kind of an adult schoolyard.

The city is brain storming about places where conversations flow naturally and. with a little training, people can help steer others who may be experiencing stress in this time of COVID-19, racial reckoning and financial hardships, to resources that can help them.

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New Haven Register, October 12, 2020