Students in Lexington can now get a new haircut during the school day, along with some one on one mentorship.

Sharp Futures is a nonprofit organization that puts licensed barbers into schools, and Tates Creek Middle School is the second in the state to open an in-school barber shop.

Students can sign up for a fresh cut with Nick, the school's barber, as well as a bus monitor for Fayette County.

More on the Creek Cuts Barber Shop in tonight's education news.

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If that's really the problem.

Then this is an actual opportunity for us to actually mentor young man, to be able to have a first hand and actually touch them.

And in a place like this, the barber shop, which is a safe space.

The idea is to have one dedicated barber for each barber shop just due to the fact of relationship building that allows for the kids to really have a constant, which is one of the most important things, is that consistency.

So if we have one barber at each school, it allows for that relationship building to actually to go ahead and to actually build some trust which goes a long way.

Kids got different stories, they got different backgrounds.

So a lot of times you'll never know what they're going through.

So at my barber shop they come in and they then ask to say they told me.

So I'll try to guide them in a positive way.

I let them ask me whatever they want to and they'll come back and tell me whatever it is which is going on their life.

They'll come back and tell me if they're doing better about it.

If things is going right or if something's not doing right, going away, I try to figure it out.

I help them out with it.

To be able to open up to a to an adult, you know, who serves as a role model, who can serve as a counselor, you know, to affirm that listening ear or that shoulder to lean on.

It's a great benefit for these young men and women, because a lot of the times they don't have access to that, and that's outside of the school setting.

This experience was very good because he's my barber.

This is amazing for I didn't cause not to have it in their school, have it fascinating.

You look how you feel.

You ask how you feel.

So if you got a good haircut, I feel like you go smile.

You're going Well, everybody's going to be confident.

You're going to be right.

You'll be more positive about everything, you know.

Some of them, they're not confident without a haircut.

But as soon as you get it, you can tell they smell and they get up out of there.

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So he gives the.

My barbershop is in Louisville, Kentucky, and we're in one of the most crime infested parts of the city to be able to have a firsthand knowledge of what it's like, you know, some of the realities that these young men and women face when treat on an everyday basis.

Just allow me to to see what was needed.

Last year and my busses kids and believe I was a boy.

They think I was just lying to them.

I had a I had one of them.

They came he came in guys haircut.

One Saturday morning, his granddaddy dropped them off and then like the whole rest of the year, he was good on the bus, clean talk back.

And like every time somebody got little, he got on and funny.

So I like that about him.

To be able to establish this in a place like Take to Creek Middle School, it's really a blessing because now we can offer this supportive space to the young men and women that we serve.

Sharp Futures will open a third barbershop in Western school in Louisville next month.