Best Apprenticeship Center Berkeley Near Me

4worldlovers: The Cypress Mandela Training Center is a community based organization dedicated to improving the lives of the people it serves by providing pre-apprentice construction and life skills training along with employment assistance.


Your contribution will help students get prepared for careers in the building trades, green construction and solar/weatherization.

Recognized for excellence in workforce preparation from the National Association of Counties (NACO).

Cypress Mandela Training program received the Civil Rights Partnership Award from the United States Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration for outstanding efforts in bringing more minorities and women into the construction trades.

Received the Comprehensive Apprenticeship Self-Sufficiency Entrepreneurship (CASE) award from the Federal Housing Authority for its unique partnership and training provided for the Contra Costa Housing Authority. This entailed training the residents of the projects in construction skills to enable them to refurbish the residential units.

4worldlovers: Our mission is to develop a legion of healers to rebuild a healthcare system that is earth-based, affordable, and empowering to our communities.

The Berkeley Herbal Center was established in 1995 in Berkeley, California. Over the decades, we have grown into the leading educational and clinical center for sustainable systems of Western herbal-based healing.

The Berkeley Herbal Center encourages and renews a living knowledge of the healing powers of plants through the study and practice of Traditional Western Herbalism.

We are committed to educating healers into successful careers as practicing herbalists and herbal educators by offering the most comprehensive, integrated education in Western herbal medicine.

We are one of very few schools nationwide with a clinical internship program in Western Herbalism. Our first and second year clinicians are trained under supervision of staff in our community clinic.

We are dedicated to furthering the study and practice of herbalism so the Berkeley Herbal Center offers all manors of herbal education to our community.