Education and Workforce Development

Goals, recommendations and action steps:

Education and Workforce Development Issue I (EWI)

Educating and retaining workforce: Facets of this issue include; understanding the demographic and skill make-up of the people in the region’s major employment sectors. Other key components of this issue include lifelong learning aspects: how to keep young workers in the region, how to attract & retain talent, and how to best utilize an older workforce. Collaboration between private/public/non-profit sectors is of paramount importance for recommendations and actions to be successful under this theme.

Education and Workforce Development Issue I Goal

Educated workforce: Our region provides affordable and multiple educational opportunities to effectively employ the current and future workforce, and to improve our knowledge of how to live a sustainable life as individuals and as a community at large.

Education and Workforce Development Recommendations and Action Steps