Resilience Meeting: [Watershed Name]

1. Resilience Meeting:[Watershed Name] [LOCATION] [DATE]

2. Introductions • Risk MAP Project Team • Local partners and officials • Tribal partners and officials [as applicable] • State partners and officials • Other Federal Agency partner representatives • Other stakeholder organization representatives • Congressional and State legislative staff [as applicable]

3. Agenda • Project status • Meeting objectives • Understanding your flood risk • Strategies to reduce that risk • Resources available • How to communicate about flood risk • Breakout groups • Next steps

4. Risk MAP Project Status • Where have we been? • Participated in Discovery • Reviewed flood risk data gathered from across the watershed [or project area] • Discussed your flooding history, development plans, flood risk concerns, stormwater management activities, and other daily operations that impact flood risk • Reviewed your mitigation planning activities and status • Finalized your Discovery Map • Signed a Project Charter [as applicable] • Documents the flood risk products, planning support, and outreach support you’ll receive from Risk MAP • Highlights roles/responsibilities

5. Meeting Objectives • To help you better understand: • Your flood risk, as individual communities and as a watershed • Strategies you can use to reduce your risk • Resources available to help you implement those strategies • The importance of communicating flood risk to your constituents

6. Understanding Your Flood Risk

7. Understanding Your Flood Risk • By understanding how your flood risks have changed, you can make informed decisions to reduce them • FEMA developed your Risk MAP products based on: • Data gathered from you during the “Discovery” process • Analyses associated with the development of the flood risk products • Engineering • Flood hazard mapping • Risk assessment

8. Flood Risk Map • INSERT MAP HERE (OR SCREEN SHOT)

9. Flood Risk Report • Insert high-level table of contents and community names Insert Cover of Flood Risk Report

10. Flood Risk Database Insert Flood Risk Map Populate with data from Flood Risk Report

11. Key Findings • List areas of mitigation interest [as applicable] • List areas identified by communities as being of interest [as applicable] Insert Photo if Available Insert Photo if Available

12. Strategies To Reduce Your Flood Risk

13. Strategies to Reduce Flood Risk There are many strategies you can take to reduce your flood risk • Prevention • Affects future development • Includes ordinances and building codes • Property protection • Affects existing development • Includes elevation and acquisition • Public education and awareness • Informs people about risk • Includes outreach activities • Natural resource protection • Protects water quality • Protects Habitats • Restores resources • Emergency services protection • Protects critical facilities • Structural projects • Involves construction • Includes berms • Includes altering stream routes

14. Strategies to Address Your Specific Areas of Concern

15. Spotlight on a Local Best Practice The problem: The process: The solution: Insert Photo if Available Insert Photo if Available

16. Resources to Implement Your Strategies

17. Resources to Help You Reduce Your Flood Risk • FEMA grants • HUD and other Federal Agency grants • Resources from the NFIP, CRS [when applicable], and floodplain management • Online resources • Technical assistance by other Federal agencies and professional associations

18. Communication Roles and Responsibilities

19. Communicate About Your Risk • Flood risk awareness: • Leads to action • Increases overall community resilience • Builds support for implementing the mitigation plan • Your constituents*: • Expect to hear about flood risk from local officials, insurance agents, and real estate agents • Prefer to hear about it in the local news and through mailings * From 2010 FEMA Risk MAP Flood Risk Awareness Survey

20. Communicate About Your Risk (cont.) • Risk MAP makes it easier to share flood risk information with your constituents: • Community outreach plan template • Draft letters to citizens • Draft media materials • Guidance on how to use the Risk MAP products to communicate risk • User friendly Flood Risk Report Insert screenshots of Risk MAP communication tools

21. Breakout Groups

22. Breakout Groups • Technical Group • Location: [ENTER] • Review the datasets and discuss how it can be used • Planning Group • Location: [ENTER] • Focus on how the flood risk products and mitigation strategies can enhance plans • Senior Officials Group • Location: [ENTER] • Review incentives and discuss coordination and communication

23. Next Steps • Mitigation action list • Develop outreach plans • Work together to coordinate on: • Mitigation planning • Grant applications or technical assistance • Communication Thanks for participating! We’ll be talking again soon.