Henry's Uncle: A podcast about Addiction and Recovery

How Cafe Momentum is transforming the community's most at-risk youth with life skills, education and employment


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After cooking in kitchens for more than 25 years, Chad Houser has been called a lot of names. But he’s still not used to being called, ‘Sir.’ It is a humbling experience. Chad started Café Momentum and Momentum Advisory Collective, a restaurant and nonprofit in Dallas that is changing the lives of many youth. Besides being an award-winning restaurant, it’s a 12-month paid post-release internship program for young men and women exiting Dallas County juvenile detention facilities. On any given day, nearly 60,000 youth under the age of 18 are in juvenile jails or prisons. The United States has the highest rate of youth confinement in any developed country. What happens to these teenagers and adults after they are released? How do they find work and housing?
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Henry's Uncle: A podcast about Addiction and RecoveryBy Henry's Uncle, Erik Kilgore

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