⸺Transformation Kitchen™
Your second chapter starts in the kitchen.
You've faced setbacks, maybe incarceration, maybe homelessness, maybe both. This 12-week culinary program gives you real skills, real mentorship, and a real path to a living wage.
"We don't just flip eggs, we flip lives"
12 Weeks
Program length
Free
No cost to students
100%
Hands-on training
⸺About the Program
More than a cooking class. A launchpad.
Transformation Kitchen equips you with the culinary skills needed to secure living-wage employment in the food industry. But it doesn't stop at knife skills and plating.
We partner with organizations that provide life skills training, budgeting, hygiene, emotional intelligence, conflict resolution, because getting a job is only half the battle. Keeping it is the other half.
"Transformation happens where hands meet heat."
As we grow, we prioritize hiring our graduates, building community, and creating pathways to stable, well-paying careers, not just jobs.
The Curriculum
What you'll walk away with.
Skills that employers actually need, taught by people who've worked the line.
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Culinary Fundamentals
Knife skills, cooking techniques, food safety, and kitchen operations, the hard skills that get you hired and keep you employed.
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Industry Readiness
How a professional kitchen operates, time management, team coordination, working under pressure. The unspoken rules nobody teaches you.
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Life Skills
Budgeting, personal hygiene, professional communication, the practical stuff that keeps your life stable while your career grows.
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Power Skills
Emotional intelligence, conflict resolution, stress management. The things that make the difference between surviving a job and building a career.
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Wellness Coaching
Physical and mental wellness support through group coaching and our Life-Long Fitness App partnership. Building a career means nothing if your health can't keep up with it.
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The Forge
Community building from day one. The Forge is the process that turns a group of strangers into a support system. Accountability, shared experience, and connections that last long after the 8 weeks are over.
Beyond the Kitchen
This isn't just culinary school.
Most programs teach you to cook. We prepare you to build a life with wraparound support that addresses the whole person.
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Wraparound Support
Partnerships with organizations offering wellness checks, mental health resources, and additional skills training beyond the kitchen.
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Employment Pathways
We hire our graduates first and build partnerships with culinary businesses who value the skills and resilience our students bring to the table.
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Community, Not Charity
You're not a case number. You're a colleague in training. Every graduate strengthens the network that supports the next class.
Our Locations
Growing across cities and countries.
TK started local. It's going global with the same hands-on approach everywhere we go.
Matagalpa, Nicaragua
Active
In June of 2025 with Rayo de Sol we built our first TK in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, called Cocina de Transformación™️. This facility teaches people of all ages vital skills that prepares them to create more nutritious meals with better sanitation skills. It inspires them to create sustainable businesses using learned skills in an economically challenged environment.
Newburgh, NY
Coming Soon
In 2026 we’re opening our second TK in Newburgh, NY. We will be able to help up to 10 people a year break cycles and create living wage income.
20 More Locations
Coming Soon
In 2026 we have plans to create 20 more locations in the US and across the globe.
Stories
In their own words.
This is where a real graduate testimonial will go — their experience in the program, what changed for them, where they are now. Authentic voice, their words, not polished marketing copy.
Graduate Name
TK Graduate, 2024 -Now working at (Employer)
A second graduate or partner testimonial — could be from a culinary partner who hired a TK graduate, or a community member who witnessed the transformation firsthand.
Name
Role, Organization
Ready?
How to get started.
1
Reach Out
Contact us through the website or by phone. No applications, no essays, just a conversation about where you are and where you want to go.
2
Meet the Team
Sit down with our staff, see the kitchen, ask questions. We want this to be the right fit for you and we'll be straight with you about what to expect.
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Start Cooking
Join your cohort, pick up a knife, and begin building the skills and confidence that lead to a living-wage career in the food industry.
No cost. No judgment. Just a starting point.
Support Transformation Kitchen
Every dollar teaches someone a skill they'll use for life.
Your contribution funds culinary training, wraparound support services, and the infrastructure that turns second chances into lasting careers. TK is growing, help us get there.