Who We Are
We are Centro Laboral de Graton (The Graton Day Labor Center), a community-based 501c3 non-profit agency based in Graton, California, a small rural community in Western Sonoma County.
Our Vision:
To promote healthy communities that value tolerance and respect so that day laborers and their families may live and work with justice and dignity.
Our Mission:
To advance and protect the human, labor and civil rights of day laborers and their families by promoting participatory democratic leadership and worker solidarity; and to develop greater opportunities for employment, health and education.
Under the guidance of our mission, we have developed a worker-directed day labor center where work can be found in a safe and dignified manner, where skills can be acquired to increase chances of safe, steady employment, to improve health , build participatory leadership and community awareness and accountability. Secondarily, our efforts include housing referral to support increased opportunities for affordable dignified housing options, and avoid homelessness.