INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A local nonprofit is taking a new approach to youth violence prevention by helping young people in underserved communities build careers through barbering.

Mended Arrows Academy of Barbering will welcome its first class on August 11th. The nonprofit says it’s designed to prepare students for state licensure while also teaching entrepreneurship, professionalism and life skills.

“This is the very reason why I exist, it’s purpose, and that’s one thing that we want to teach those that we will be instruction that they...