What Can Ready Indiana do For You?

 

Ready Indiana is a free service to all Indiana employers. 

  

Ready Indiana streamlines information making it easier for employers to identify their workforce training needs, choose quality training providers, and investigate employer training grants to help cut their training costs. Ready Indiana focuses on increasing awareness of basic or functional skills in the workplace including reading, writing, math, second language learning, team work, verbal and written communication, leadership skills, problem solving skills, and technical skills. 

  

Ready Indiana offers:

    • Training locator service to summarize training information from multiple providers

    • Advice from experienced employers about training grants and training programs

    • Reports, studies and PowerPoint presentations about workplace literacy

    • Employer workshops, conferences and news of interest in workforce development

       

Ready Indiana was created in response to the 2005 study by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce called A Demand Side Strategy to Meet Indiana's Workforce Basic Skills Challenge. A key finding was that about one million Hoosiers (1 in 3 employed adults) have literacy skills below the minimum standard needed for the jobs of today's knowledge-based economy. Also, employers indicated a willingness to invest in basic skills programs but need better information about incentives and assistance available to help them do so.

 

Through the generosity of the Lilly Endowment, Verizon Foundation, and Joyce Foundation, Ready Indiana seeks to help employers engage, educate and elevate Indiana's workforce through this web site, print materials, presentations and speaking events, and a toll-free Concierge helpline at 866-444-1082.

 

Click here for a brochure describing Ready Indiana.