Café Momentum Bridges Gaps With Teens as Staff and Guests
In Dallas Café Momentum employs at risk teens recently released from incarceration as all staff roles. Chef Chad Houser leads a program turning the restaurant into a classroom for life skills, reducing recidivism to 15 percent and breaking down stereotypes. An inspiring story amid local trauma and evolving futures. The Oprah Winfrey Network will feature the nonprofit in The Hero Effect on December 10.
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Giving Tuesday appeal supports local pediatric care expansion
Renee Earls urges donations to the Medical Center Health System Foundation and Children’s Miracle Network in Odessa. The drive backs a $2.9 million renovation of the Pediatric Unit at MCH, adds telemedicine rooms, and aims to keep care local for Permian Basin children.
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Legalizing pot: a Texas attorney's candid view
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