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Workforce Officials Continue To Use Strategic Skills Data and Findings To Design Programs To Boost Workers and Employers
In Knowledge Economy Era, Workers Need Mantra of Lifelong Learning to Remain Competitive in a Highly Charged, Global Economy

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orthern Indiana's Strategic Skills Initiative brought a foundation of understanding to workforce officials about the type and depth of job skills necessary for workers to thrive in the Infor- mation Age global economy of 2008 and beyond.

Employing rigorous research as well as discussions with regional stakeholders, staff members for the Northern Indiana Workforce Board, Inc. produced a bevy of informational and analytical documents aiming to, initially, identify the root causes of shortages in occupational skills of Northern Indiana's workforce and, in later phases, develop com- prehensive solutions to short- ages. From such a solid foundation of strategic skills knowledge, workforce development officials will continue to weave such under- standing into developing innovative employment and training programs seeking to boost jobs and wages in the five-county region.

Stakeholders in Northern Indiana are cooperating to help SSI succeed, thus boosting the regional economy in global markets.

Northern Indiana workforce officials are using SSI data and analysis to design programs to boost training and preparations of workers.

In Northern Indiana and throughout the United States, economic activities as well as jobs have been subjected to unprecedented structural changes since the 1990s due to seismic shifts in vital areas such as globalization of trade, breathtaking advances in technology, human capital, personal finance and savings, eduation, natural resources and energy supplies, business management and government, among other factors. With such pressures impacting Northern Indiana's workforce of more than 300,000 Hoosiers, the 30-month SSI program (from June 2005 to December 2007) essentially charted a course for workforce developers, employers, educators, and others to take actions designed to strengthen the workforce throughout Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, Marshall and St. Joseph counties.

Some of the information, statistics, analysis and findings that Northern Indiana workforce officials continue to use are highlighted below.

NORTHERN INDIANA STRATEGIC SKILLS INITIATIVE
REPORTS and INFORMATION

SUBJECT and DATE	DESCRIPTION/TITLE and LINK
FIRST YEAR REPORT ON ADVANCED MANU- FACTURING�SEPT. 2007	"Michiana Feels Heat of Global Competition; Advanced Manufacturing Jobs Call for Higher Skills than Ever Before," web page in Grow Michiana eNews.
FIRST YEAR REPORT ON HEALTH CARE IN N. INDIANA�SEPT. 2007	"Regional Health Care and Educational Organizations Approach Workforce Issues as Team to Achieve Solutions to Pressing Issues," web page in Grow Michiana eNews.
FUNDING FOR SSI�JUNE 2006	"Strategic Skills Initiative: Improving the Region 2 Economic Outlook; Funding Report."
GENERAL SSI UPDATE�APRIL 2006	"Strategic Skills Initiative; Bottlenecks cause Constraints."
OCCUPATIONAL SKILLS SHORTAGE, HEALTH CARE�JULY 2007	"Strategic Skills Initiative, First Year Report, Northern Indiana Workforce Board�EGR2."
OCCUPATIONAL SKILLS SHORTAGE, MANU- FACTURING �2006-'07	"Strategic Skills Initiative, Phase One Report."
PHASE ONE REPORT TO IDENTIFY CRITICAL SKILLS GAPS IN N. INDIANA WORKFORCE�AUGUST 2006	"First Phase of Workforce Skills Effort Aims to Identify Critical Skills Gaps that Impact Regional Economy; Researchers Name Manufacturing and Health-Care Jobs as Top Priorities, Yet Keep Watch on Emerging Nano- and Bio-Tech Sectors," web page in WorkOne eNews.
REGIONAL COLLAB- ORATION, HEALTH CARE�JULY 2007	"Health Care & Educational Organizations Approach Workforce Issues as Team To Achieve Solutions to Issues; Strategic Skills Initiative Programs include Masters of Nursing degree, Respiratory Therapist Certification, and Clinical Use of Mannequins." Go to health care (web page).
REGIONAL COLLAB- ORATION, MANUFAC- TURING�SEPT. 2007	"Michiana Feels Heat of Global Competition Amid Advanced Manufacturing Job Duties Soaring to Higher Levels than Ever Before; Workforce Developers Look Beyond Strategic Skills Initiative with Focus on the Future Forum." Visit advanced manufacturing (web).
ROOT CAUSES�MID-2007	"SSI Phase Two Report: Root Causes."
SOLUTIONS�2007	"Strategic Skills Initiative, Phase Three Report: Regional Solutions."

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