Area Sector Analysis Process Training

ASAP Training

Las Vegas, Nevada

April 23-24, 2013

Join us for ASAP Training and learn how to engage your community in targeted, sustainable economic development from the very team of Extension Specialists who created this process!

The Western Rural Development Center Area Sector Analysis Process (ASAP) was designed by Extension Specialists and Agents for Extension to use in collaboration with community leaders and has already been successfully applied to several communities across the region.

ASAP assists communities in targeted, sustainable economic development by identifying:

1.     Community goals and priorities for economic development
2.     Community assets that will help achieve the community’s goals and priorities
3.     Industry needs and factors important for locating their operations in a community
4.     Businesses that are consistent with the community’s goals and priorities

Join the ASAP Team and learn first-hand how to:

Start an ASAP in your community/region
Gain community participation
Apply the ASAP curriculum
Facilitate ASAP in your community/region

Discover ASAP at Work in Montana, Nevada, and Arizona!

The ASAP Team will be sharing highlights with you from these state projects.

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Registration Fee and Details

The registration fee is $175 per person and includes two days of training, ASAP steering committee and facilitator materials, pre-loaded jump drives with the ASAP materials, and three refreshment breaks.

How to Register

Register online using our secure form – click here to register!
Download and complete the registration form and mail it to the WRDC (instructions are on the form). Click here to download the registration form.

Cancellation Fee

To receive a refund less a $35 processing fee, you may cancel your registration through 5:00 pm (MDT), Tuesday, April 16, 2013. No refunds will be issued after 5:00 pm (MDT), Tuesday, April 16, 2013.

Cancellations must be received in writing.

Please email it to Betsy Newman, Western Rural Development Center, betsy.newman@usu.edu.

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Lodging and Meeting Venue

ASAP Training will be conducted at the Desert Rose Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada, and a block of lodging rooms has been reserved for training participants. You will need to contact the hotel directly to make your own lodging reservations. Please use GROUP CODE WRDC13.

Desert Rose Resort

5051 Duke Ellington Way

Las Vegas, NV 89119

Tel: 888-732-8099

Website: http://www.shellhospitality.com/Desert-Rose-Resort

Click here to make reservations.

*Room Rate

$119 per room, per night

*To secure this room rate, reservations must be made by March 28, 2013 using Group Code WRDC13.

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Agenda

Click here to download the ASAP agenda (PDF).

AGENDA – DAY ONE

Tuesday, April 23, 2013
8:00 AM	Check-in/registration
8:30 AM	Welcome! Introductions Review agenda	Don Albrecht Western Rural Development Center
8:45 AM	ASAP Methods, Background, and Previous Applications Methods and Background Previous Applications	Tom Harris and Linda Cox Buddy Borden and Barbara Andreozzi
10:15 AM	Refreshment Break
10:30 AM	Getting Started Module 1 – Taking Stock Module 2 – Looking to the Future Module 3 – Identifying What is Most Important	ASAP Team
12:00 PM	Lunch – on your own
1:15 PM	Module 3 (cont.) – Goal Assessment Module 4 – Checking out Togetherness Module 5 – Finding Out What We Have	ASAP Team
3:00 PM	Refreshment Break
3:15 PM	Module 6 – Measuring Our Assets Module 7 – Sharing Progress	ASAP Team
5:00 PM	Daily Recap - Q & A	Don Albrecht
5:30 PM	Dinner – on your own

AGENDA – DAY TWO

Wednesday, April 24, 2013
8:15 AM	Day One Recap and Questions	Don Albrecht
8:30 AM	Module 8 – The Community’s Option Module 9 – Attracting, Developing, and Expanding Industries	ASAP Team
10:15 AM	Refreshment Break
10:30 AM	Module 10 – Don’t be Blinded by the Dots – Deciding What to Do? Module 11 – Taking Action Module 12 – Taking Stock of the Progress	ASAP Team
12:00 PM	Lunch – on your own
1:15 PM	Where do you go from here? Implementing the program in your area: Contact WRDC Define Program Area/Scope (ASAP Team) Assemble materials Area Team Conducts Program Modules Send goals and assets data to WRDC then to UNR Results compiled by UNR, then to WRDC, then to area Results include graphs, data tables, and stop lights	ASAP Team
3:00 PM	Daily Recap - Q & A	Don Albrecht
3:30 PM	Thank you and safe travels!

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ASAP Team

Don Albrecht, Western Rural Development Center

Barbara Andreozzi, Montana State University Cooperative Extension

Buddy Borden, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension

Linda Cox, University of Hawaii Cooperative Extension

Tom Harris, University of Nevada Reno

Malieka Landis, University of Nevada Reno

Questions

Please contact the Western Rural Development Center:

Betsy Newman

(435) 797-0218

betsy.newman@usu.edu

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