What we do and how we do it.

Credentialed Training & Career Readiness

Kind Works offers hands-on, high-impact training programs that prepare learners for meaningful careers in today’s most promising industries. Our credentialed offerings include Sterile Processing Technician, Pharmacy Technician, Construction Technology, and other Career & Technical Education (CTE) programs aligned with industry standards and apprenticeship pathways. Each program is designed with both entry-level learners and career changers in mind, providing the technical knowledge, workplace readiness, and professional development skills needed to thrive in high-demand roles.

We deliver instruction both online and in person at our partner training sites in Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties—ensuring access for students in under-resourced regions. Our curriculum is informed by employer needs and evolving workforce demands, supporting long-term career growth across sectors like health services, cannabis, and skilled trades. Whether you’re preparing for union apprenticeship or stepping into your first credentialed role, our training programs serve as a launchpad into sustainable, high-road employment.

Entrepreneurship & Small Business Development

We support emerging entrepreneurs and small business leaders with the tools, knowledge, and confidence to build sustainable, purpose-driven enterprises. Whether you’re launching a brand, leading a nonprofit, or expanding your side hustle into a full-time venture, our programs are designed to meet you where you are. Through Business-in-a-Box intensives, masterclasses, and personalized coaching, we guide founders through the essentials—business planning, compliance, digital marketing, budgeting, and branding—always with an emphasis on clarity and confidence.

Our programming is developed in collaboration with subject matter experts across high-road industries, ensuring that participants receive the most up-to-date, relevant, and practical guidance available. We also offer sliding-scale coaching to ensure accessibility, especially for those from historically excluded communities. From idea to execution, Kind Works is here to help entrepreneurs build with intention, scale with strategy, and thrive with purpose.

Pathway Support & Coaching

Workforce success is about more than skill-building. It’s about support. That’s why we provide a range of services designed to help learners overcome barriers, stay engaged, and move through their personal and professional development with confidence. We offer one-on-one discovery sessions, coaching, and guided referrals to trusted community resources including:

Housing support
Legal aid
Digital access
Mental health services.

Every learner who enters our ecosystem is seen as a whole person, with unique strengths and needs. Our support services are trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and intentionally flexible. So you can access the care and tools you need to succeed. Whether you’re returning to the workforce, navigating entrepreneurship, or pursuing a new certification, Kind Works is committed to walking alongside you every step of the way.

Community Research & Advocacy

At Kind Works, we believe the people closest to the problem should be the ones shaping the solutions. That’s why we engage in community-led research and advocacy initiatives that center lived experience, narrative data, and real-time workforce realities. Our work includes strategic collaborations with academic institutions, policy networks, and grassroots organizations to inform labor equity, education access, and fair employment standards in high-growth industries.

In 2023, we partnered with the UCLA Labor Center on the groundbreaking High Stakes report—a statewide study funded by the California Department of Cannabis Control that surveyed over 1,100 cannabis workers across California. The report spotlighted the lived experiences of frontline workers in a rapidly growing, highly regulated industry, offering deep insight into wages, safety, equity, and opportunity. This project exemplifies our approach: community-informed, data-driven, and rooted in systems change.

From gallery walks and policy briefs to narrative-based surveys and roundtable facilitation, we turn research into action, and ensure that the systems shaping workforce development reflect the people they are meant to serve.