Wildfires don't stop at property lines or jurisdiction boundaries. Their impacts are far reaching, from neighborhoods to public health, emergency services, local economies, critical infrastructure, and the health of our natural resources. Our approaches to prevention and preparedness should be just as wide-reaching as the impacts of wildfire. As CRR professionals that means we need to adapt our approaches to include our community in helping us prepare, mitigate, and prevent catastrophic wildfires. This is where partnerships and planning come in to play.
Following the strategic CRR model, in this session we'll first work together to identify key problems that need to be addressed in our communities. We'll run those areas of improvement through a lens of opportunity to focus our efforts on what things we feel we CAN impact sooner than later with consideration to culture, political climate, and funding opportunities. Small groups will be formed around the selected issues and will develop a problem statement.
Next, each issue-group will work together develop stakeholders, solutions, and evaluation measures to address these issues. At the end of this session, participants will walk away with a blueprint for action from each working group to build partnerships, get to work on specific issues in their community, and a plan for how they will demonstrate measurable impacts and outcomes.
Learning Objectives:
Using the model Strategic CRR process, working groups will identify stakeholders, programs, and evaluation measures for key issues related to wildfire in their communities.
Each group will then develop and present a project management plan to develop the identified partnerships and implement/evaluate the proposed programs in their communities.