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About LSE Life Skills Education was founded in 1979 by three people who were all working with young adults in Boston. One was an English teacher running an employment-training/GED program for high school dropouts; two were counselors and the directors of a community youth office. This core group started writing booklets for the young adults they served because effective and inexpensive materials suited to their clients’ needs were simply not available. The result of their collaboration was the Steps to Success booklet series which included: The Interview, The Application, The Resume, and The Cover Letter.
Soon LSE began serving an adult population as well. One of the first groups of readers were people going through employment transitions. It didn’t take long to recognize that adults faced a host of issues not typically associated with career skills. Adults can face difficult family issues, personal issues related to being absent from the workforce for an extended period, and the financial complications of being laid off. LSE comprehensively covers these topics. Our Career Skills series of 43 booklets are in use across the country and our new Getting Work/Keeping A Job series of 42 booklets is a direct result of our customers’ feedback on their expanding needs to serve Welfare-to-Work clients. As a result of our early work, many libraries, counseling centers, schools, hospitals, employment centers, and outreach programs contacted LSE for existing publications and to request new ones. From our modest beginning of just four career pamphlets for young people, we have grown to offer over 200 booklets, covering the wide variety of topics relevant to a lifelong learning population. Responding to customer needs, LSE has developed publications addressing alcohol and drug abuse, health and wellness, family life and parenting, and a myriad of issues faced by adults and youth alike. The breadth of LSE publications helps our customers address the individual needs of their clients. |
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Among
LSE’s first customers were CETA programs who recognized how effectively
our content, reading level, and style reached their young clients. They
found that LSE published concise, informative, and readily applicable
booklets. Typically they were distributed at client workshops, used for
staff training, or provided as handouts at information kiosks or during
individual counseling sessions. Regardless of venue, these customers
found there was no substitute for clients having the information they
needed in hand to supplement and reinforce their learning experience.
