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initiative and informs efforts needed to adapt to and manage the changing risk landscape, sustain strengths, and obtain or borrow resources from whole community partners. Supplemental SHSP Guidance Collaboration with Other Federal Preparedness Programs DHS strongly encourages States, Urban Areas, and regions to understand other Federal preparedness programs in th eir jurisdictions and to work with theta in a collaborative manner to leverage all available resources and avoid duplicative activities. For example, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has two robust preparedness programs — Center for Disease Control (CDC) Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PREP) cooperative agreement program and Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response's (ASPR's) Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) cooperative agreement program — that focus on preparedness capabilities. CDC's 15 public health preparedness capabilities and ASPR's eiglit healthcare preparedness capabilities serve as operational components for many of the Goal core capabilities, and collaboration with the PHEP directors and HPP coordinators can build capacity around shared interests and investments that fall in the scope of these HHS cooperative agreements and the 2014 HSGP. Each SHSP and UASI funded Investment that addresses biological risk, patient care or health systems preparedness should be implemented in a coordinated manner with other Federal emergency preparedness programs such as those administered by the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, the CDC, and the U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Governance Keeping with the guiding principles of governance for all DHS preparedness programs, grantees must coordinate with their stakeholders to examine how they integrate preparedness activities across disciplines, agencies, and levels of government, including State, territorial, local, and Tribal units of government. A cohesive planning framework should be incorporated that builds and implements homeland security initiatives which leverage DHS resources, as well as other Federal, State, territory, local, private sector, faith -based community, and Tribal resources. Specific attention should be paid to how all available preparedness funding sources (multiple Federal sources as well as State and local sources) can be effectively utilized in a collaborative manner to support the whole community approach to emergency preparedness and management and to the enhancement of overall capabilities. To accomplish this, the SAA must establish or reestablish a unified Senior Advisory Committee (SAC). Senior Advisory Committee The SAC builds upon governance structures that may already be established under different FEMA preparedness grant programs, but the nature and governance of this Committee was new for FY 2013 and continues in FY 2014 for HSGP. The SAC should build upon previously established advisory bodies under HSGP (including the SHSP and UASI programs), Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSCrP), Transit Security Grant Program (TSGP), and Port Security Grant Program (PSGP), which currently exist in support of States and Urban Areas, Tribal nations, non -profit organizations, transit agencies and Amtrak, and port areas. Examples of advisory bodies that should be included on the SAC include: Urban Area Working Groups 38 Appendix B— FY2014 HSGP Priorities