THIRA/SPR Speaking Topics Name(Required) First Last Agency/Organization(Required) Email(Required) Choose 3-5 questions/ topics that you are comfortable speaking on at the conference: 1. How do you engage municipal partners in a meaningful way to provide input on the THIRA/SPR? Do you use the WCIF to collect data from stakeholders and/or use it to aggregate the data you’ve gathered through other methods? 2. How do you go about adding additional impact categories, especially in between THIRA years? 3. How are you integrating the THIRA/SPR and Hazard Mitigation Plans? 4. How do you validate the quantitative data? Do you have defined methodologies that you document for the whole UASI? If so, how do you update and maintain this methodology? 5. Are communities using THIRA SPR data? How do you translate the qualitative data provided in the SPR into meaningful actions? 6. Are there best practices in engaging T&E partners in the THIRA/SPR process? 7. Do you use your THIRA/SPR as a strategic planning guide that informs the POETE actions in your region? 8. What is the most challenging aspect of the THIRA/SPR process? How are UASIs working to address this? 9. How are you incorporating the National Priority Areas and using your THIRA/SPR to identify projects in these areas? How do you straddle the focus areas prioritized by the feds vs. your regional priorities? 10. Do you have any success stories coordinating your THIRA/SPR process with your state’s process? 11. Do you expand beyond the standardized capability targets into customized CTs? 12. How does your community translate real-world POETE improvements or deficits (purchases, trainings, position vacancies, etc.) into quantifiable Capabilities Built/Sustained/Lost within each capability target of the SPR?
