Café Momentum offers positive life skills to kids impacted by juvenile justice system

On any given day, nearly 60,000 youth are incarcerated in juvenile jails and prisons in the United States, according to the ACLU.

At the start of 2024, more than 10,000 children and teens were involved in Georgia’s juvenile justice system. Café Momentum is attempting to give these youth a more positive trajectory.

Young people in Nashville, Pittsburgh, Dallas, and soon Atlanta are learning culinary skills to operate a nonprofit restaurant. Tristyn Williams is one of those chefs-in-training, who says her go-to dish is buttermilk biscuits. Her time as an ambassador for the Dallas nonprofit restaurant has sparked her dream of going to culinary school and possibly opening an eatery of her own.