Communities use the THIRA to better understand their risks and determine the level of capability needed to address those risks. Communities then use the SPR to estimate their current capabilities, identify gaps and their intended approaches for addressing them, and assess the impact of relevant funding sources.

This course introduces the six-step THIRA/SPR process, including identifying threats and hazards that stress a communitys response capabilities, giving those threats and hazards context and the associated impacts consistent with specific factors, addressing and analyzing specific capability targets, assessing and describing a current capability level, identifying and addressing capability gaps and a subsequent strategy for solutions using the POETE (Planning, Organization, Equipment, Training, and Exercises) Solution Cycle, and assessing and describing the impact of funding sources would have in the community.

Course Objectives

• Summarize the Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) and Stakeholder Preparedness Review (SPR) process, the Federal guidelines, THIRA/SPR reporting requirements and the benefits of conducting a community-based THIRA/SPR.
• Identify specific threats and hazards to the community by applying principles and concepts related to threat and hazard identification groups, and the factors to consider for threat and hazard groups.
• Write a context statement based on the completion of an impact worksheet that will identify the threat and hazard that most challenge a single core capability.
• Develop core capability target statements which describe the level of capability a community plans to achieve for each of the 32 core capabilities.
• Assess current capability levels and how community capabilities have changed over the last year.
• Articulate capability gaps and a subsequent approach for addressing gaps and sustainment needs using the POETE (Planning, Organization, Equipment, Training, and Exercises) Solution Cycle.
• Develop an understanding of the Federal funding sources and programs that might assist in addressing the identified gaps, and how previous funding sources impacted the community¿s ability to address capability gaps and sustainment needs.
• Produce a THIRA and SPR using the Whole Community Input Form.