Serving Native Nations in Texas, Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma
SP TTAP e-News for March 21, 2016           
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Tribal Transportation Planning Seminar May 17-18
Tribal Safety Peer Exchange May 19
Transportation Planning Seminar instructors
Byron Bluehorse (Navajo) and Kyle Kitchel (Osage)

To assist tribes in transportation and safety planning, the Southern Plains Tribal Technical Assistance Program (SPTTAP) Center will be hosting a two-day Transportation Planning Seminar and a one-day Tribal Safety Peer Exchange in Oklahoma City, OK May 17-19.

Tribal Transportation Planning Seminar (Tribal RoadStar Program - Course 8) Tribal Transportation Planning is the process of developing strategies for operating, managing, maintaining, and financing the area's transportation system to achieve the community's long-term transportation goals and vision. Topics covered include Planning Concepts, Components of a Long Range Transportation Plan, Public Outreach, Census and Planning, and Transportation Improvement Plans.

Tribal Safety Peer Exchange (Tribal RoadStar Program - Course 18). The objective of the Tribal Safety Peer Exchange is to provide tribal communities with trending evidenced based strategies that focus on behavioral safety for transportation, transit, safety and injury prevention programs. A peer exchange provides an opportunity for tribal, local, state and federal programs to network and develop partnerships. The idea is to share practical and effective tools used for behavioral safety, while also learning a new skill or safety practice. During the tribal safety peer exchange, the following behavioral safety topics will be discussed: Pedestrian Safety, Child Passenger Safety, and Distracted Driving. During each topic session, students will be able to participate either in a leadership activity, skill activity, or educational activity. The session will also examine State Laws, Best Practices, Campaign Ideas, Trending Evidenced Based Strategies and Safety Resources


Agendas are coming soon! The seminar and Safety Peer Exchange are FREE!

Transportation Planning

May 17-18 (Tue.-Wed.)

Tribal Safety Peer Exchange

May 19 (Thu.)


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CALL FOR VENDORS
2016 National Tribal Transportation Conference

The 19th Annual National Tribal Transportation Conference will be held in Anaheim, Calif., Oct. 3-6. The conference seeks sponsors and vendors ready to exhibit! For details, check out the Vendor Information Packet.
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UPCOMING TRAINING AND EVENTS:
Webinars on Safety Toolkit

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) invites staff of Native Nations to attend a free webinar on March 22 to learn more about conducting safety analysis of tribal roadways.
The webinars supplement the Improving Safety on Rural Local and Tribal Roads safety toolkit published by FHWA in 2014.

To attend, sign in here.
 
March 22
12 Noon to 1:30 p.m. Central
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Crash Data Collection class - March 24 at ODOT Training Center 

The new and improved Crash Data Collection class (SAFE-T Collision Studies) is here! Oklahoma DOT's Crash Data Reporting System, SAFE-T, has been recently updated! This new training will guide you through SAFE-T and give you access to crash data for your area. Reports generated by the system are used by state, tribal, and local employees to identify problem areas and plan roadway changes. The reports include maps showing locations of collisions and an analysis of when and why collisions occur. The system has the ability to search for locations by number of collisions, and the lists included in the reports give general information on each collision. This 3 hour class is conducted by Kevin Drury and Amanda Adams.
Car Crash
 
March 24
1 pm to 4 pm 

ODOT Training Center
1025 SE 59th
Oklahoma City, OK
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SPTTAP's Grant Writing Basics class has been enhanced!
Join us April 26 in Stillwater.

Grant Writing Basics is course 5 in SPTTAP's Tribal RoadStar Program and is coming to Stillwater on April 26! 
In these times of tight budgets and competitive funding, the skills associated with good grant writing become even more vital for an organization. Grant Writing Basics will help agencies make the most of their grant writing skills in this half-day session. 
Oklahoma State University Proposal Development Specialist Nani Pybus, Ph. D, will offer information on the basics of grant writing, to include: how to find funding sources, how to develop a funding proposal, and how to get the proposal funded. 
SPTTAP Program Specialist Amy M. Echo-Hawk (Yakama/Pawnee) will offer strategic grant writing tactics tribal employees can use to create evaluation, reporting and grant seeking systems that are easier to manage.

 
An Overview of the Factors and Processes to
Increase Organization Safety Culture
March 22 10 a.m. to 11:30 am CST

This free online training event provides an overview of successful factors and processes that can help you develop a strong safety culture in your tribal transportation agency.
Pamela Jurney, Cross Timbers Consulting, offers assistance to Rachel Dinwiddie, Seminole Nation.
ArcGIS Workshop 3:
Editing Basics - March 22

This session is dedicated to editing tables, points, lines, and polygons in ArcMap, and how to create Domains within a geodatabase. Whether you need to edit geometry or data, the goal of this workshop is to help you save time and make the editing process easier.

Wednesday, March 22
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Class Limit: 12; Stillwater
Southern Plains TTAP Region
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Other Training Opportunities!
Check our website!
Southern Plains TTAP Center | Oklahoma State University | 405.744.6049 | 
ttap.okstate.edu
This material is based upon work supported by the U. S. Department of Transportation under Agreement No. DTFH61-12-H-00004.  Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the Author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the Federal Highway Administration.