Debbie Hatt, Executive Director of the Southeastern Utah Economic Development District, provided a presentation on workforce and economic development during the conference Create, Challenge, Change: Economic Development Conference for the Denver Region in August 2016. This presentation occurred during the session "Matching Workforce Skills with employer needs now and in the Future."

1. Debbie Hatt, Executive Director
Matching Workforce Skills
with Employer Needs Now and
in the Future

2. A little about S.E. Utah
Total Square Miles
17,574 (21% of
the entire state)
Total Population
2010 56,350
2015* 56,137
*U.S. Census Bureau-2015 Population Estimates

3. Historical Employment Sectors
Mining (All mineral & energy resources)
Power Generation
Transportation/Warehousing
Machining/Welding
Construction (Primarily public &
commercial)
Travel/Tourism
Source: Utah Department of Workforce Services

4. Future Employment Sectors
Mining (Primarily gas/oil, potash)
Health Care
Supply Chain Management &
Transportation
Education (Secondary & higher ed)
Engineering (Electrical, chemical,
environmental, civil)
IT/Computer (security,
robotics, instruments &
controls, general programing
& coding)
Source: Workforce Study-Zions Public Finance, Inc. & the SEUEDD

5. Employment/Workforce Gap

6. Training/Education Resources
 University of Utah-Eastern
2, 4 year and graduate degrees
Workforce development &
Training (So. Ea. Utah’s ATC)
Custom Fit training
Short Term Intensive Training
(STIT)
 Utah’s STEM Program: business and
corporations are involved now more
than ever, and partners like Adobe,
Nelson Laboratories, Utah Technology
Council, ATK, Merit Medical, Goldman
Sachs and IM Flash have a voice in
how to reach students, parents,
educators and the community.

7. Training/Education Partners
Small Business
Development Centers
Business Expansion
and Retention Programs
County Economic
Development Offices
Department of Workforce
Services
Southeastern Utah Economic
Development District

8. Non Traditional Education
 Custom Fit Training
− Quickly adapted to employer needs
− Courses can be designed for specific
jobs
− Flexible Scheduling
− Employers can schedule multiple
training opportunities
 Machinists
 Diesel Mechanics
 Trucking
 Heavy Equipment
 Software Programs
 Training for state licensing/exams

9. Non Traditional Education
 Short Term Intensive Training
− Flaggers
− CNA
− Business Writing
− Employee Relations
− Lean Manufacturing
 On-Line and Nested Education
− Flexible training for workers
− Allows workers to move from certificates
of completion to college and even
graduate degrees as they’re able

10. Addressing Future
Workforce Training Needs
The Workforce Training Study identified the
medical/health sector as a growth industry for the
region. Toward that end USU-Eastern is in the
process of developing a major expansion of the
Price Campus to include a new medical/health
education department
 USU Eastern Expansion (Price, UT
Campus)
− $12,000,000 Research and medical training
facility
 Nursing
 CNA
 Medical Assisting
 Pharmacy Tech
 Surgical Tech
 Radiology Tech
 Medical Lab Technology

11. USU Eastern Medical Facility
 5 Acre Development Site
− 2 buildings for classrooms and labs, parking,
maintenance facilities, offices, etc.
 Funding will include
− Private and Foundation Donations
− State Funding
− EDA Grant (up to $2,000,000
− Rural Development Grant ($500,000)
− Local Government Infrastructure Development
 Students & Employees
− 30 Additional employees (eventually)
 Professors, assistances, administrative staff, ect.
− Up to 500 additional students each year
 Degrees: technical certificates to Masters in Nursing and
Nursing Practitioners
 To include eventual expansion of courses at the
Blanding Campus

12. So, you think you’re rural?
Los Angeles County Emery County
Square Miles Square Miles
4,752 4,472
Population Population
9,646,924 10,370