May of 2007, The Pikes Peak Workforce Investment Board with the Pikes Peak Workforce Center, under CEO Peggy Hebertson, located and hired a director with both K12 and corporate background with a charge to facilitate a business and education partnership. The primary objective and vision was to promote ways to address the workforce problems that business has had with the quality of applicants for employment openings in Southeastern Colorado. The Business and Education Talent Readiness Project (BETR) was formed.

The BETR Project has emerged as a multi-fold and deeply pro-partnership project with many actively involved groups and individuals within the southeast region of the state of Colorado. Partnerships include: Colorado  school districts and pre-schools, Head Start programs, post secondary institutions, Colorado and Wyoming businesses, various chambers of commerce, economic development entities, Boy Scouts of America, Action 22, Colorado STEM Network, local government agencies, The Workforce Investment Boards of various sites, students, and parents, Rural Colorado Workforce Centers, The Pikes Peak Workforce Center, And Other Regional and Community Resources. The partnerships and relationships continue to expand. Working relationships are being established with Colorado State University – Pueblo, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, the Pikes Peak Community College, and other post-secondary education providers.

The BETR Project is actively developing partnerships with many businesses in the El Paso and Teller counties of Colorado, Rural Colorado, and is working with economic development groups. The charge is to effect positive change via alliances and action.

Randy C. Dalton - Director

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