We at the Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation (BDCC) recently convened a group of Windham County region manufacturers for the first-ever Southern Vermont Business Roundtable.
The roundtable meetings are divided into industry specific working groups, and designed to support workforce needs, as well as identify any existing programs and resources that will help recruit, train, or retain new and incumbent workforce.
The roundtable discussion focused on both the short and long-term workforce development needs of manufacturers in the region. The Southeastern Vermont Economic Development Strategies (SeVEDS) organization conducted the region's first ever Comprehensive Economic Development Strategies (CEDS) in 2012.
This process helped reveal the need to increase the size and quality of the workforce and has been a priority focus of the BDCC and SeVEDS- led initiatives for regional economic development and planning activities ever since.
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