Established in 1982, Center for Working Life (CWL) is a non-profit organization providing innovative consultation and training services to employed and unemployed workers and the organizations that serve them. Services are based on an understanding of the central role that works plays in the lives of workers and their families. Drawing on a unique blend of professional training and direct work experience we have been able to deliver services and training that are accessible, appropriate and effective for working people.

Lee Schore, L.C.S.W., Executive Director of CWL, is an internationally recognized expert on the effect of work, and the absence of work, on workers and their families. She has pioneered the development of occupational stress groups, the use of a peer support model in dislocated worker programs, and the development of an integrated support services model to deliver effective services to workers and adult learners. Her background includes more than 30 years of experience as a social worker, counseling psychologist, teacher, assembly line worker, and union activist. Since 1991, Ms. Schore has been a Senior Policy Consultant for the U.S. Department of Labor helping to develop services for dislocated workers in Bulgaria, Poland and Ukraine.

Terry Day, Ph.D., Senior Consultant, brings a breadth of experience that includes years as an auto worker, working with youth, women in the welfare system, clients in mental health delivery systems, minority students in community colleges. Dr. Day is an expert in dealing with issues of diversity in the workplace and in the community. He has been working with the Center since 1985.