Community Choices Public Policy Education Program: Exploring the Human Resources/Economic Development Connection

Lionel J. Beaulieu, Southern Rural Development Center
Kenneth Bolton Jr., Southeastern Louisiana University

The Community Choices program is designed to engage communities in a systematic assessment of the linkages between its human resource attributes and its economic development opportunities.

Purpose and Objectives:

• Produce concrete results at the local community level.
• Engage local community residents in a dialogue and assessment of the linkages between economic development opportunities and the human capital attributes of their community.
• Strengthen residents' understanding of the complex set of policy issues associated with human capital resources and economic development options
• Provide a forum for exploring alternative strategies for dealing with these issues
• Clarify potential impacts associated with these policy issues.