A Place to Call Home

The Grooming Project’s first housing facility brings families together By: Meg Townsend If you arrive at The Grooming Project’s new family residence facility on any weeknight, you are likely to find women talking as they prepare meals together while their kids watch...

Holding on to Hope

Turning hopelessness into happiness and replacing despair with the ability to dream Surviving childhood trauma and the hardships of poverty and addiction can turn little things into big deals. For April Myers, it was getting her personalized grooming scissors, a...

Empowered to Advocate

Case manager uses lived experience to help students address legal problems By Abby Jaskolski, Director of Communications at The Grooming Project When prospective students first learn about The Grooming Project, it is typically through Barbie Daniels, a 45-year-old...

Attitude of Gratitude

By Linda O’Dell For 13 years, heroin was Abigail Jones’ life. It took being apart from her son, then seeing him for the first time in months and realizing how much of his life she was missing, to be motivated to stop the drug use. It took a doctor willing to...

The Relationship of Grooming

Lacey Adair, Director of Grooming at The Grooming Project, explains how your groomer can be a voice for your pet. By Lacey Adair The trade of grooming is all about building relationships. As professional groomers, we do our best work when we form strong relationships...

6 Ways to Change Lives Forever

What if you could make a donation that didn’t just solve an immediate need? That could potentially change a family’s future for years—even generations—to come?  When you contribute to The Grooming Project, you do just that. The Grooming Project solves an immediate...

Healthy Smiles Lead to Stable Employment

By Abby Jaskolski Dental care is a necessity that many fail to appreciate until it’s no longer an option. Gerry Barker, a retired dental professor and former board member for The Grooming Project, knew first-hand how much the students’ health was suffering after a...

Family Man: Ronnie Davis

By Linda O’Dell As one of only a few men in the current roster of The Grooming Project students, Ronnie Davis definitely stands out, but as brother to five sisters and father of five daughters, being surrounded by women is nothing new for him. What is new is the...