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NAACP and social workers call for state-funded hair care for children in custody
Summary
Witnesses including the NAACP and DCF social workers urged a line item for hair care and products for children in state custody, citing impacts on self-esteem, hygiene-related skin issues, and disproportionate effects on Black children and youth in transracial placements.
Representatives of the NAACP, DCF social workers and advocates asked the committee to advance H.4216, a bill that would establish funding and a framework to provide hair-care services and products to children in state custody.
Kokyanna Fuller, representing the NAACP, said hair is part of identity and mental health and that the absence of hair-care…
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