NAVIGATING THROUGH THE UNTHINKABLE
PREPAREDNESS WITHOUT PARANOIA®
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PWPORG presents Parents With Preparedness Magazine, a FREE digital magazine filled with commonsense strategies; powerful interviews, authoritative articles, life stories, and resources to inform the dialogue and share best practices about preparedness and resiliency for families and communities.
Parents with Preparedness
E-Learning Quick Guides
Just imagine in a threatening situation,
there were no strangers because everyone knew what to do and acted without hesitation. The world is complex and getting more complex seemingly by the minute. We designed this effort to help bring clarity, replace fear of the unknown with the confidence to learn and to adapt to any kind of environment.
Join us in PWPORG® to engage in defining and designing preparedness education for the future. The design and the narrative which will surround it will require active engagement, investment in preparedness and resilience education and talking to our kids in a developmentally appropriate way, not around them. Our investment now will earn value for generations to come if we get it right.
Preparedness is not a government responsibility handed down, it's a family decision built up, one conversation, one plan, and one practiced habit at a time. The Spotlight series features articles from authors who have spent careers on the front lines of emergency management, law enforcement, public health, and community resilience. Their expertise, distilled here, exists for one purpose: to help families and caregivers develop the preparedness mindset that transforms uncertainty into confidence. Because the families who weather crisis best aren't the ones who reacted fastest — they're the ones who were already thinking ahead. If these articles resonate with you — and you have expertise, experience, or a story that could help another family prepare — we want to hear from you. Join our community of contributors and put your knowledge where it matters most.
Dr. Stacy Phillips
Holiday Safety Without the Fear: Factor A Trauma-Informed Guide for Parents
Kristina Tanasichuk
A Primer for Parents Similarities in Recruitment and Grooming by Pedophiles and Extremists
We are proud to announce our first (of many) FREE PWP Mentoring Guides.
Advice on Professional Meetings by Jim Robell
Some detailed, practical advice on external, in-person, business meetings.
Homeland Security Today Announces Strategic Merger with Parents with Preparedness Magazine
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Founder’s Statement
Preparedness Without Paranoia (PWPorg.org) — Partnership with Homeland Security Today At Preparedness Without Paranoia, we believe the strongest defense against an uncertain world is an educated one. Partnering with Homeland Security Today lets us extend that belief beyond our own walls, joining a community of experts who share our commitment to readiness without fear.
Education is the multiplier: one lesson taught well ripples from a household to a school to a neighborhood to a nation, as each person prepared pays it forward to the next. Throughout my career in federal law enforcement, I’ve seen that no organization builds a prepared society alone — the best outcomes come from collaboration, not competition. I’m honored to join forces with HSToday in service of that mission.
Dr. Kathleen Kiernan, Ed.D
Founder, Preparedness Without Paranoia (PWPorg.org)
A Stone in My Pocket
Every once in a while someone does something that truly changes the world, and that is exactly what Rhonda Glaude and her colleague, Evan Fox Suggs, have done with this work. Rhonda, I hope you can hear our applause in Heaven!
Love, the PWP Team
A FEW OF OUR WONDERFUL FRIENDS
A FEW OF OUR WONDERFUL FRIENDS
A FEW OF OUR WONDERFUL FRIENDS
Special 9/11 2021 Edition
The voice of practitioners is one which should never be silenced. Earned experience, especially through crisis is invaluable in preparedness education. We are honored to present this special edition.
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Mission Statement
To empower parents and children to invest in their own safety and security through education and community engagement.
Our Vision
We envision a connected world in which there is a common understanding of and a shared responsibility and accountability for protecting kids from threats to their safety.
Safety and Education
PREPAREDNESS WITHOUT PARANOIA® is designed to provide an easy to navigate, commonsense resource for preparedness and resilience education for individuals, families and organizations. Active learning means actual engagement and personal involvement in acquiring new knowledge and reinforcing that knowledge through activity. We help make security awareness commonsense, and its practice, a lifelong skill as automatic as fastening a seatbelt.
Spreading the Word
Just imagine if in a threatening situation, there were no strangers because everyone knew what to do and acted without hesitation. The world is complex and getting more complex seemingly by the minute in the pandemic era, where everything we thought we knew has changed. We designed this effort to help bring clarity, replace fear of the unknown with the confidence to learn and to adapt to a new kind of environment where living rooms became classrooms.
Getting Involved
Join us in PWPORG® to engage in defining and designing what the new or next normal will be. The redesign and the narrative which will surround it will require active engagement, investment in preparedness and resilience education and talking to our kids in a developmentally appropriate way, not around them. Our investment now will have generations of return if we get it right.
My Highest Duty
Our highest duty as parents is to keep our kids safe.
A Life Worth Saving by Adam King