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Program
Description
Beauty and barber shops provide an excellent opportunity to reach men and women of all ages in a friendly, familiar, and comfortable environment. This initiative utilizes the beauty shops as a venue to expand awareness regarding women’s and men’s health and wellness issues. The initiative is a training program that provides beauty salon owners with resources and skills to improve the health of the clients they serve by improving one’s sense of well-being. This initiative extends the concept of personal beauty to include overall health and wellness. This year the initiative will focus on primarily breast and cervical cancer prevention and screening. However, the initiative will also address general men and women’s health concerns including exercise and nutrition.
Contact
Virginia Julion
(312) 996-9077
vjulion@uic.edu
Program Dates
2003 - present
Partners
- UIC
-National Center of Excellence in Women's Health/Center of Excellence
Partners
- Community
-Guys and Dolls Salon (Austin Community)
-Destiny’s Creative Hair Designs (Park Manor Community)
-Sister Locs (South Shore Community)
-II Kilos -Beauty and Barber Shop (North Lawndale Community)
-Franchie Barnes’ House Calls
Funding Source
- Johnson and Johnson & Office of Women's Health through National Center of
Excellence in Women's Health
-Illinois Department of Health Services
-UIC Neighborhoods Initiative
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