RIGs In Iowa

Tri-State Siouxland Regional Innovation Grant

States: Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska

Counties: Cherokee, Crawford, Ida, Monona, Plymouth and Woodbury.

Overview: The Tri-State Siouxland Region, largely rural area, is over 6,158 square miles. Between 2000 and 2007, this eleven-county region lost over 3,150 jobs. This job loss is having a long-term negative economic impact in their area.

Proposed by a core regional leadership group, the project will seek to implement a strategic plan designed to offset the effect of job loss events by recruiting, educating, training, preparing and placing dislocated workers or other untapped employment groups for employment opportunities in the growing industries. One way they plan to achieve this goal is to create a Tri-State Siouxland One-Stop Career Center.

Since this RIG is relatively new, many items are still in the development stage.

Resources

• Siouxland Workforce Strategic Plan (PDF)
• Siouxland Skillshed Analyses (PDF)
• Siouxland Educational Asset Map (PDF)
• Key Siouxland Industry and Occupation Analyses (PDF)
• Siouxland Rig Narrative (PDF)
• RIG Logic Model (PDF)