Wyoming offered our family a quality of life unmatched and it’s important we continue to find ways to keep our youth here for the coming generations. — Dan Dockstader

A Legislative assignment, taken seriously, goes well beyond a couple months of meetings every winter.

It’s a year-long assignment with repetitive meetings on a variety of topics held across the state and with a variety of state agencies.

As an example, in addition to my work on Corporations, Revenue, School Facilities and Federal Natural Resources, I serve as a senate liaison to Workforce Services. Some of the work  and discussions have centered on keeping our youth in Wyoming as they graduate.  We constantly see the youth choose other states to make their home and raise their families.

This state provides great employment opportunities with good paying jobs and from what I can see a quality of life often unmatched for raising a family.

I see one of the routes as more successful career tech program with our schools, colleges and university.

Earlier this year, I brought Rob Hill, University of Wyoming Career and Technical Education in for a visit with Lincoln School Districts 1 and 2.

Last week, I made an early morning run to Rock Springs to visit  Western Wyoming Community College President Kirk Young. Career tech was part of our discussion.

Keeping our youth in Wyoming and keeping Wyoming strong will be one of my goals in the coming years.

Taking those steps with Workforce Services, our university and our colleges will part of the process.