Kentucky SBDC & SKCTCollege

A MESSAGE FROM:Dr. W. Bruce Ayers
President of Southeast Kentucky
Community and Technical College

Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College is proud to have operated a Small Business Development Center for more than twenty years.

The Southeast SBDC provides counseling and outreach services to seven eastern Kentucky counties and has been responsible for hundreds of business start-ups and expansions. This is especially important in our region, where diversification of the economic base--which has long been dependent almost entirely on the coal industry--is badly needed.

If you are thinking of starting or expanding a business and need professional help, the SECC SBDC exists to help you. Assistance is as close as your telephone. You'll find a courteous staff waiting to serve you.

Sincerely,

W. Bruce Ayers
President SECC

The Small Business Development Center of Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College is one center of a network of 16 throughout the state of Kentucky, and a network of over 1100 SBDC's throughout the United States. The Small Business Development Center was created in 1980 by federal legislation and is charged to provide management and technical assistance to potential and existing business owners. The vast network formed by the SBDC's give us a wide range of resources to use in assisting our clients.

With campuses in Cumberland, Middlesboro, Whitesburg, Harlan, and Pineville Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College serves a wide geographic area that encompasses the southeastern Kentucky mountain counties of Harlan, Bell, and Letcher.

The Mission

Kentucky Small Business Development Centers are committed to providing the highest quality management assistance as a way of ensuring sound guidance for aspiring and established entrepreneurs, job stability and creation, and increased state and federal revenues.