The Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan is the foundational document guiding a successful exercise program. The multi-year plan provides a mechanism for long-term coordination of training and exercise activities toward a jurisdiction's preparedness goals. This plan describes the program's training and exercise priorities and associated capabilities, and aids in employing the building-block approach for training and exercise activities. Within the Multi-Year Training and Exercise Plan, the multi-year schedule graphically illustrates training and exercise activities that support the identified priorities. The schedule is color-coded by priority and presents a multi-year outlook for task and priority achievement. As training and exercises are completed, the document can be annually updated, modified, and revised to reflect changes to the priorities and new capabilities that need to be assessed. The Multi-year Training and Exercise Plan and schedule is produced through the work completed at the Training and Exercise Plan Workshop (T&EPW). The T&EPW focuses on discussion of capabilities-based planning, overview of the National Priorities, review of the State or jurisdiction priorities, and analysis of previous training and exercises. After this information is synthesized, participants develop the plan and schedule for their State or jurisdiction. (FEMA, HSEEP Glossary, 2008)