The Direct Contact Barbershop Health Tour is a six week barbershop that will commence on the April 9th and continue on consecutive Saturdays until May 14th when our spring cycle will come to an end. During the tour volunteering nurses will accompany YHYW health advocates and will visit three to four barbershops between the hours of 12:00am & 3:00pm for no more than a total of 90 minutes per Saturday. Literature that will be available to the public during the tour will feature Hypertension (High Blood Pressure), Heart Disease, and Diabetes. Nurses will be asked to administer health screenings and answer general health inquires. While health advocates will be ask to share fact based information with the community that they have obtained from attending YHYW training sessions. All individuals that yield high risk screening results will be referred to see their doctor or visit a participating health center immediately.

All health advocate training sessions and community outings will take place on Saturday afternoons between the hours of 12:00pm and 3:00pm.
Listed below is what will be asked of a qualifying health advocate:

 1. Health advocates are required to attend a 60 minute training sessions before addressing or engaging the public about preventive health intervention. Following the initial training session a health advocate will then be prepared for community engagement and will be asked if they can volunteer for at least two outreach Saturdays.  

2. Health advocate training sessions will be held on April 2nd, 16th and April 30th from 12:00pm to 1:00pm at Connect Care, 5535 Delmar Blvd., 2nd Floor, Room W-201, St. Louis, MO 63112.

3. For the Direct Contact Barbershop Health Tour a health advocate will volunteer for no longer than 90 minutes per Saturday. Health advocates are to engage with the patrons on hand about the importance of regular visits to the doctor and having a primary care physician,    information about health centers available to residents and share fact based information concerning diseases destroying our community learned in the training sessions. 

4. No health advocate will be asked to work alone, but instead in teams. All participants must be friendly, non-confrontational and conduct themselves in a professional manner.