Dallas Restaurant: Cafe Momentum Trains Youth Offenders

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I just saw this restaurant featured on The Chew, and I love the concept.  The restaurant helps youth offenders, who've been released and helps train them for restaurant work, from prepping to front of the house.  The segment profiled some young boys, and one of the young men, was so pleased with himself, and said he never had a lot of positive reinforcement growing up, and how much he loved his job.


Here's a link for more info about the program. cafemomentum.org/?page_id=529


Café Momentum is a restaurant training platform that provides post-release paid internships for juvenile offenders through which they will receive intensive culinary, job, and life-skill training as well as continued mentoring and support to foster successful re-entry into the community. In addition to significantly reducing recidivism, Café Momentum creates opportunities for long-term, sustainable (legal) employment for a demographic that would otherwise continue to burden the justice system and taxpayers.