LTAP Northeast Region Annual Meeting

May 5-6, 2015 Mystic, CT National Local Technical Assistance Program Association Update

2014 New NLTAPA Executive Committee Members  Tony Alotto, Texas LTAP, representing Southeast Region  Matthew Enders, Washington LTAP, Vice President

NLTAPA Work Group Structural and Leadership Changes  Jaime Carreon (Florida LTAP) became Chair of Communications Work Group  Donna Shea (Connecticut LTAP) became Co-Chair of Partnerships Work Group  John Velat (Eastern TTAP) is Conference Chair  Matthew Enders (Washington LTAP) is Partnerships Work Group Chair

NLTAPA Highlights -The Executive Committee revised and adopted the NLTAPA Operations Manual and Executive Committee Orientation Guide. We also instituted a written work group update form to be completed each month by the chairs. -The ad-hoc Conference Planning Committee was transitioned to a permanent Conference Planning Work Group. -The regions were re-named from the numerical sequence to geographical based names; the exception being the TTAP Region, which is named for representing the TTAP centers across the board. -Additional NHI instructor development training courses are scheduled (interested attendees should Victoria Beale):  June , Houghton, MI  August 5 - 8, Baton Rouge, LA  August , Arlington, VA

NLTAPA Highlights -There will be two candidates for the NLTAPA Vice President position: Denise Brown from North Dakota LTAP and Steve Pudloski from the Wisconsin LTAP. -The summer conference will have 3 tracks- Training Resources/Technologies, Safety, and Communications/Marketing.

NLTAPA Highlights -We are putting some additional focus on branding and messaging. Two work groups, Safety and Professional Development, continue to be joint programs where leadership is shared between NLTAPA and FHWA. The Communications Work Group has been in a transition period. The “new” mission of Communications will be (1) continued website support and (2) messaging for the other work groups. -The NLTAPA.org website is now hosted/maintained by the EC. -The Joint Safety Work Group has changed its work group call schedule to be bi-monthly, and the format is now a topical webinar with multiple speakers.

LTAP/TTAP Summer Conference 2014 Monday Safety Train the Trainer Session Tools, Training & Technical Assistance for Local Rural and Tribal Road Practitioners Safety Toolkit In this session, the Federal Highway Administration Office of Safety will share their new toolkit that represents a holistic, multidisciplinary, multistep process for analyzing safety issues, identifying countermeasures, funding improvements and evaluating program benefits on local and tribal roads. Each step of the proposed process will recognize and provide information to the different categories of potential users – from organizations just starting to develop road safety management programs to organizations that have programs already in place, but may be seeking more advanced methods. The toolkit includes rural road safety research and tools in a manner consistent with the stage of development of the rural road safety program. Along with this toolkit are two user guides to support the toolkit. The user guides will provide additional information about available resources and, as appropriate, provide information about how to apply the more quantitative steps in the proposed process. The user guides will be brief and focused on helping the practitioner find ways to take full advantage of the resources compiled in the toolkit. Participants will be able to:  Identify the safety challenges in their local roads community and be able to help local road decision makers identify such challenges  Effectively use the new toolkit to help organizations develop safety management programs  Be a resource to locals looking for both simple and complex assistance in addressing their safety challenges

The 2015 LTAP/TTAP Summer Conference is July 20-23, 2015 in Savannah, GA. The host hotel is the Savannah Marriott Riverfront (cutoff date is June 29 th ). The 2016 LTAP Region One Meeting will be hosted by Rhode Island.

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