The project is designed to address three key objectives. The first is to collect, compile, and mobilize available labour  market data in order to equip our region's decision-makers with the information they need to make informed decisions related to the workforce and economy. The second is to assess the state of network relationships linking workforce development and economic development practictioners. This baseline account will allow network members to engage in strategic efforts to improve collaboration. The third objective involves piloting innovative, best practice approaches to workforce development. Selected interventions will consider regional priorities, opportunities and lessons learned from elsewhere. This applied research project is well positioned to mobilize efforts aimed at fostering experiential learning, strengthening our learning region and more purposefully positioning the region's colleges as active partners in the Basin- Boundary economic development landscape.