Status of Women committee  Hi there. Thank you so much for your question. Yes, that's exactly right. Another thing I'd like to address here quickly is about Cut It Out. When Jodi and I went to get trained to teach others about this, there were about 20 of us in the room. There were only three hairstyl

Status of Women committee  Yes, we do, definitely. That's why for Cut It Out we offer it online. One of us who is certified to teach it can definitely go online and can teach it, but yes, the numbers definitely are different in rural regions, for sure, and there's a lot less access to the education. That's

Status of Women committee  I'll be totally honest here that this is not really my area of expertise. We need to somehow get it put into the curriculum when we're educating in cosmetology school. I don't really know where that would lie. Jodie, maybe you could weigh in here. There's a need. I've talked

Status of Women committee  I learned that a lot of things we say, like “Just leave him; just go”, actually puts them in so much more danger and then they're never going to speak to us. They're never going to trust us enough to communicate with us when we could be their only person.

Status of Women committee  Hi, Michelle. Thank you so much. It's such a complex issue. Yes, funding helps, but I find that getting Cut it Out education, which is the education that we provide.... It actually came from the United States, in Alabama. Then it got to Western University, and then it came to A

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Before we get started, I'd like to take the opportunity to acknowledge that we are on Treaty 6 territory, the home of the many first nations people who were here before us. Thank you so much for inviting me here today; it means the world to me. I crea