Café Momentum is a nationally-recognized nonprofit restaurant and professional training facility. We create holistic, individualized plans for young people to begin addressing the issues they’ve had to confront throughout their lives.
The Café Momentum Story
In 2008, Chad Houser was the co-owner of a successful restaurant and had been nominated as the best up-and-coming chef in Dallas. At that time, he had the opportunity to teach eight young men in juvenile detention how to make ice cream – and that experience struck him to his core. “I witnessed firsthand just how much the current model for juvenile justice is designed to negatively affect our youth. Rather than building a better system, we are trying the same thing over and over again. I realized that I wanted to open a restaurant – and I wanted to let these kids run it.”
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1510 Pacific Street
Dallas, TX 75201
Open Thur – Sat
5:30pm – 9:30pm
214-303-1234
info@cafemomentum.org
Coming Soon
Mailing Address:
4636 Lebanon Pike #168
Hermitage, TN 37076
To apply for Café Momentum’s Internship Program, please complete the Internship form in your desired location. This form must be completed before attending the Café Momentum Internship orientation.
Social innovation must center around creating ideas for lasting change. We aim to transform the lives of justice-involved youth across the country through the Momentum model and its ecosystem of support.
In 2020, Momentum Advisory Collective was formed to scale the Momentum Model nationwide. As the parent company of Café Momentum and as a capacity-building nonprofit organization, our mission is to open new Café Momentum restaurants and programs offering living wages, culinary job training and holistic support to young people that have gone through the system.
Shifting the model for juvenile justice in the U.S. could. potentially save between $8 to $21 billion per year!
To learn more about Momentum Advisory Collective, please visit momentumadvisory.co.
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Café Momentum Boilerplate:
Café Momentum is an award-winning restaurant and culinary training facility. We aim to transform young lives by equipping our community’s justice-involved youth with life skills, education and employment opportunities to help them achieve their full potential. In building Café Momentum, our primary goal is to build a sustainable model that provides justice-impacted youth (ages 15-19) with the holistic support they need to truly thrive.
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The Café Momentum model is spreading across the country from Dallas, offering job training and support to 15-19-year-olds Three years ago, Cameron Carver was 15
Source. Cafe Momentum, a fine dining restaurant designed to help teens who have been part of the criminal justice system, is scheduled to open in
Offensive lineman Zach Banner and former defensive back and current judge Honorable Dwayne Woodruff recently took part in the Café Momentum Virtual Dinner: Growing Opportunity.
BY SANDRA ENGELLAND • MAR 11, 2021 “My priority in social innovation must center around creating ideas for lasting change,” Chad Houser says. It’s been a busy year