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THURSDAY 18 AUGUST 2005
NEWS PAGE
THE CANADIAN RECORD
CAREER RRIEFS
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Canadian hosts HomeTown Competitiveness
Training Academy for rural communities
Small communities face great, challenges in fashioning strategies
that reverse the trends of population loss and economic decline. Inpar-
ticular, rural leaders are mindful that unless they become more suOr
cessful in attracting young people to their community, their long-term
future is threatened. To help face these challenges, Canadian is host-
ing Texas' first HomeTown Competitiveness Training Academy (HTC)
August 24-26.
Craig Schroeder, a rural Community development specialist from
Nebraska, is one of the instructors for the HomeTown Competitiveness
Training Academy (HTC), which will be attended by 75 community
leaders from Canadian and other rural communities.
As Senior Associate with the Rural Policy Research Institute Cen-
ter for Rural Entrepreneurship based in Lincoln, Nebraska, Schroed-
er's primary focus is community-based business succession planning
and youth entrepreneurship, including creation of the Youth Attraction
Formula, a tool for Great Plains communities to address persistent
youth out-migration.
HomeTown Competitiveness (HTC) is a framework for engaging
rural community leaders, entrepreneurs, young people and charitable
donors in systemic change that results in revitalized rural communi-
ties. HTC is a community-led and asset-based approach to rural devel-
opment focused upon helping rural places become more economically
competitive and sustainable. This summary briefly introduces the
youth engagement component of the HTC strategy.
"It is not just the lure of big cities that pulls young people away from
rural communities," said Schroeder. "It is also the lack of opportunity
and encouragement to come back that discourages young people."
The HTC framework teaches community leaders how to create
attraction strategies and career opportunities, and how to nurture a
sense of ownership and vested interest in the Community's long-term
future.
"We are witnessing in our work that a growing number of high
school and college students would like to return to their hometown if
greater career opportunities were available," he said. "The growing
trend in entrepreneurship as a preferred career path and the desire to
come back home are creating significant opportunities for rural leaders
to begin to reverse the youth out-migration trend and revitalize their
community."
Economic Development Director Remelle Farrar said it is an op-
portunity for growth for Canadian. Ten community members from
Canadian will attend the HTC academy as a leadership team that will
be responsible for developing and implementing a plan for Canadian's
future success.
"If we are going to develop and improve plans for Canadian's fu-
ture, it is absolutely essential those plans include components that will
encourage people who live here to stay in Canadian and be actively in-
volved in it and retain Canadian's assets and quality of life," Farrar
said. "We have to find a way to recapture...the assets and wealth we've
established here."
HTC provides, a framework proven to work, Farrar said. The leader-
ship team is charged with identifying improvements and ways to imple-
ment those improvements.
HomeTown Competitiveness is a collaborative partnership between
the Nebraska Community Foundation, RUPRI Center for Rural En-
trepreneurship, the Heartland Center for Leadership Development
and the Center for Rural Affairs.
Schroeder will also be in Amarillo August 23 to speak on "Youth At-
traction: Key Strategies for Community Development." The program
is free of charge, and will be held at the Texas A&M Research Center
Auditorium at 6500 Amarillo Boulevard West, from 1:30-3:30 p.m.
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IT I Q N :
To learn more about the HTC framework or the Academy in Canadian,
please call Darryl Birkenfeld at 806-938-2529.
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