Lancaster Countys Economic Future: Strategies and Indicators

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Lancaster Countys Economic Future Strategies
and Indicators

• Initiatives Currently Underway

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Priorities for Investment

• Growth in the period
• Location quotient (competitiveness) above one
• Significant size
• Average wage above the family sustaining wage

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Priority Clusters

• Agriculture and Food Processing
• Health Care
• Biotechnology
• Metals and Metal Fabricating
• Communications (Printing)
• Construction (Cabinetry)
• Automotive Services

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Training Consortia

• Agriculture
• Food Processing
• Long-Term Care
• Metals
• Printing
• Construction
• Industrial Maintenance
• Plastics

• Logistics and Transportation (with SC WIB)
• Information Technology (with Berks WIB)
• Biotechnology (with Delaware Valley WIBS)

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Impact

• Engaged 300 companies
• Trained 2,750 incumbent workers over the last
  two years
• Wage gains for trainees in excess of 12
• Productivity gains for companies
• 1,990,000 in training money for 2006-2007
• Average cost at 724

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Pipeline Projects and Career Education

• Identified staffing patterns and skill map for
  each priority cluster
• High priority occupations communicated to
  education system
• Moving that information out to K-12 system
• Youth Career Summit
• Seven week-long day camps
• Pathways to Gold Collar Careers
• Assist with development of Career Standards
• Partnership with Chamber

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Impact

• Youth Career Summit reaches 200 educators each
  year
• Day camps touch 500 kids yearly
• Over 1,000 8th graders and their parents attended
  Pathways this year
• High priority occupations have become a major
  planning priority

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Centers of Excellence

• Through Lancaster Prospers, established to
  promote innovation in key industries
• Five functions
• Incumbent worker training
• School to work pipeline
• Technology transfer
• Local research and development
• Entrepreneurial development

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Centers of Excellence

• Long-Term Care Practice
• Packaging Operations
• Regional Innovation Grant
• DVIN WIRED Project
• Production Agriculture (from Blue Ribbon
  Commission)
• Radio Frequency Identification (pending)

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Impact

• An attempt to look beyond present needs
• An attempt to develop an innovation system to
  maintain the competitive advantages in the world
  marketplace of key industries in Lancaster County.

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Contact

• Scott Sheely
• Executive Director
• Lancaster County Workforce Investment Board
• 313 W. Liberty St.
• Suite 114
• Lancaster, PA 17603
• 717-735-0333
• ssheely_at_paonline.com
• www.lancastercountywib.com