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Many people will tell their hair dresser things they won’t tell anyone else, and because of that a Tampa hair dresser was honored by the Governor this afternoon at Domestic Violence Awareness ceremonies in Tallahassee.  Belinda Brown came up with the innovative idea to having her hair technicians and students talk with clients about abuse and encourage them to report it when it is happening. Brown hopes spreading the word will make a difference. “I believe that getting out there and getting a lot of people knowledge doing hair..like she said..we know everything and can recognize it, and a lot of the charge with the schools is going out..when we graduate they are going out to the businesses and see people just need to know” says the award winner.

Ms. Brown won an award for the most innovative ideas on preventing domestic violence.

AARP and its Divided We Fail group launched a television ad campaign today designed to educate AARP members on election issues such as health care. The spots  are designed to spur discussions among voters and those seeking office about health care and financial responsibility. Jeff Johnson of Divided We Fail hopes the spots will spark a conversation. “One of the problems is that it’s really easy, and every candidate running for President has a health care plan and they will all talk about Social Security, Voters are actually interested in candidates who can get something done. The initiative here is not to focus on any particular thing here and beat it into the ground, but instead, to build a concensus that we have to do something, we can’t just let this opportunity go by.”

Divided We Fail is a national campaign designed to amplify the voices of AARP members.