Healing Through Hair

“Healing Through Hair” was born through the extraordinary vision of Celebrity Stylist, Educator & Technique Innovator Janel Sealy Smith of Cocoa Mane Salon in Brooklyn, NY. The vision for the organization/event is to bring awareness to the cry of the women in the correctional facilities in Trinidad & Tobago who want to be educated and have opportunities available to them when they are released from prison. According to statistics, almost half of them are back behind bars within three years because they have no skills/training or opportunity. It is nearly impossible for a person just being released from prison to start their lives over without having any assistance, guidance, education, or technical skills. There are very few active programs that are being funded to support ex-convicts and many have been cut because the government is funding other organizations. This sometimes pushes them back into participating in illegal jobs and acts.

“Healing Through Hair” will help raise money to educate and teach these women skills to help them adjust and establish themselves outside of prison.