ASG Board of Directors: 7/1/11
- Stuart Armstrong
- Pacesetter Bank
- Gary Barrett
- Country Mark Co-Op
- Ron Best
- Communications Electronics, Inc.
- Wayne Blevins
- Sertech/Solartech
- Cynthia Brown
- Vocational Rehabilitation Services
- Terry Brumley
- Whitinger & Company
- Roy Budd
- Energize ECI
- John Carl
- Trane
- Gail Chesterfield
- Ivy Tech Community College
- Fred Davis
- U.A.W C.A.P. Council
- Dorothy Douglass
- Mutual Bank
- *Rhonda Duning
- Lingle Real Estate
- Joseph Evans
- Carpenters Local #1016
- Mark Goldman
- Pennville Custom Cabinetry
- Anthony Hart
- Lifetouch, Inc.
- Bob Hobbs
- New Castle Area Career Programs
- Rob Jeffs
- Innovation Connector
- Emily Jerman-Brown
- IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital
- Tim Kumfer
- Park Place Church of God
- Tim Lloyd
- Dot Foods, Inc.
- Milo Miller, Jr.
- LEO Executive Council
- Faron Parr
- Advanced Seal Technology
- Sonya Paul
- DWD
- Kevin Polivick
- Interlocal CAP, Inc.
- Jim Riggle
- Indiana Michigan Power
- Tim Rogers
- Wayne County EDC
- Jerry Sprouse
- JD Byrider
- Vicki Tague
- Jay County Chamber of Commerce
- Rick Taylor
- Delaware Dynamics
- **Brad Wilson
- Wilson Lawson Myers
- Dennis Wimer
- DWD
- OFFICERS
- *Chair
- **Chair-Elect
- ***Secretary
- ****Treasurer
- ***Barbara Street
- President/CEO
- ****Cathy Cross
- Chief Financial Officer
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Strategic Vision for Economic Growth Region 6
At the broadest level the goals for Economic Growth Region 6 are to Increase Personal Income and Increase the Tax Base of the region. The attainment of these goals will simultaneously benefit the businesses, government, citizens and workforce of the region.
Regional Approach
Economic Growth Region 6 strives to fully embrace regionalism by recognizing the unique qualities and needs of each of our communities while also leveraging the scope and resources of the region as a whole.
This is evidenced by our relationships at the local level with businesses, Chambers of Commerce, and local officials and our partnerships at the regional level with economic development, labor, and educational organizations. Partnerships play a large role in our approach; an example of this can be seen in the fact that 30% of EGR 6’s Strategic Plan goals are focused on our relationship with our economic development partners.
We seek to strategically collaborate with all of our partners in order to maximize our impact while efficiently allocating resources and generating clear goals. A key criterion for the WIB and its staff when investing time and resources is to ensure that, to the extent possible, all of the communities in the region are represented in both development and delivery of these strategies.
Through these strategic regional alignments we believe we can prepare the workforce to meet current and future demand in order to retain and attract quality jobs that support the goals stated above.
Targeted Efforts
The WIB is committed to investing its resources in a manner that yields the greatest benefit to the prosperity of the region. This requires strategic focus.
The WIB establishes industry and occupation “targets” in order to focus its resources. This serves as a guide to the staff and WorkOne partners in delivering services to our job seeker and employer customers. We of course remain flexible and adaptive, but these “targets” provide a baseline that represents the goals of the region and the synchronization of individual organizations’ efforts toward a strategic vision.
Development of the “targets” involves input from the WIB, staff, and many of our partners including employers, labor representatives, and economic developers. The better we can align ourselves with current and future needs of employers and the specific efforts of our economic development officials, the better our workforce will be able to quickly fill the needs of employers and also serve as an asset for the expansion and attraction of businesses.
Ultimately, we strive to prepare the workforce based on demands of employers; thus, creating a just-in-time match between employer needs and worker skills.
The realization of this system will be of profound value to the region as it helps provide stability of our current economy and addresses one of the key considerations to attracting further investment in the region. |
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