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Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
Lorenzo Lewis (he/him) is the Founder of the Confess Project; America’s First Mental Health Barbershop Movement and he is an Unapologetically Black Unicorn. Lorenzo explains how the Confess Project meets people where they are and how he’s trying to make the barbershop a place for support. They talk about how Lorenzo saw opportunity at the other end of what he thought were failures, trying to spread the new “988” number through the barbershops and the important areas they train their barbers in including: active listening, validation, positive communication and stigma reduction.
If you or someone you know is in a mental or substance use disorder crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255.
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