Coffee shop opening on Garland Road to provide formerly incarcerated women with jobs

Studies show that getting people back to work after they get out of prison helps reduce the chance they will return to crime. And yet it is very difficult for people with criminal records to find jobs. One coffee shop in Dallas, Well Grounded Coffee, is offering jobs, community and hope to women with criminal

This past December, a new coffee shop opened its doors just down the street from the Dallas Arboretum. But more than coffee and pastries, Well Grounded Coffee Community is dedicated to its baristas first. Michael and Natalie Huscheck are the co-founders of Well Grounded, and their partnership with Exodus Ministries is making it possible for

Two women from Exodus Ministries have been hired as the shop’s baristas. Nonprofit coffee shop Well Grounded Coffee Community is expected to open Dec. 14 in the Casa Linda neighborhood of East Dallas. The faith-based shop will employ mothers who were formerly incarcerated and are rehabilitating their lives via a Dallas nonprofit named Exodus Ministries.