Strategy Over Tragedy

04/28/2026

Conference Discount! Call or email before the end of May 2026 for special conference discount rates!

04/26/2026

You know Ciocia Carina will be pampering the hard working therapy dogs- and loving every second!

04/25/2026

How to get people at a conference to make time to visit a wellness area:

Step 1: Announce "They have dogs."
That's it! 🤣😁😀

Thank you Teams for these beautiful moments!

As a therapy handler myself, there is nothing better than seeing the joy and connection that we share in the presence of dogs. We evolved together and we still need one another!

New Jersey Emergency Preparedness Association

04/25/2026

Access is for every body! Check out the free items available to Strategy Over Tragedy LLC Participants, to take and keep to support greater accessibility.
From Communication Boards to bifocals, a white board, magnifier and fidget items, it's about welcoming all and supporting adaptation in the exercise...because it mirrors the field. Besides...Who hasn't forgotten their readers? We are all in this together ❤️!

04/25/2026

What an incredible week with New Jersey Emergency Preparedness Association !! Tag yourself-photos from Certville (tm), and A.C.E.S (c) and the conference!

The biggest Thank You to my cherished friends and mentors who bring the board to life--Towns exist not because of structures, but because of people leaning in together...to share wisdom, knowledge, ideas...a vision...to support one another...to do the things that make life little better on this earth.

To our new Certville neighbors, thank you for sharing of yourselves. You leap into mission focus before most folks in Jersey finished their 2nd cup of coffee.

Your enthusiasm, ideas shared, and humble excellence, collaboration and willingness to lead.... make you exceptional human beings....

Your welcoming of friends old and new, intellectual curiosity, and willingness to push beyond what would stop most others in their tracks...that inner
resilience..are traits that make you great.

You do a job few folks have heard of in a field fewer understand, with fortitude, ethics and deep compassion.

You take on the situations that would leave others lost, and restore balance one step at a time, "one win at a time..." because...someone has to do it.

If there is a quote that best captures the spirit of EM, I have long felt it is this:

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength."
--Saint Francis de Sales

Thank you for sharing your strength, wisdom, and friendship in our tiny town of Certville. May the joy of intellectual curiosity, and support of friends old and new sustain you on the journey that is Emergency Management.

04/22/2026

Wellness Moment for Today: Watch and try this!

04/19/2026

Sneak Peek! See you in !

03/16/2026

Call today for First Aid Training....and avoid this scenario!

03/16/2026

03/15/2026

This is what they do. Medical Alert Service Dogs awaken from a sound sleep to alert their human. Medical Alert dogs can be more energetic, vocal, intense in their mission because their human's life depends on it... They won't look like the quiet, uniform-in-mannerisms-and configuration Service Animal you saw in a movie. They won't look or act like Guide Dog Service Dogs.
They can be any size or breed, it is task and work and lifestyle dependent...It doesn't take a big dog to smell a blood sugar change; a "teacup size" dog can do this task and work.
Dogs do more on instinct than we often appreciate; we then reinforce and shape what comes naturally to these absolute beacons of love: Medical Alert Service Dogs like this put the love of their handler, above their own needs....

2:20am - All sound asleep, Double included. It was a big evening for these little guys - and they were surely exhausted.

Myles’s blood sugar started drifting down while we slept. Quietly. Slowly. And while Myles’s body may sleep through the change - Double doesn’t.

Even after a long, exhausting day… even in a new place… even in the middle of the night… Double woke up because he smelled the change. He came to wake me up and let me know to check our boy.

So I checked.
72.

Right there at his trained alert threshold of 75.

Because of Double, I was able to give Myles glucose before anything got dangerous. Myles slept through the finger poke. He slept through the glucose. And he definitely would have slept right through his body going low.

But Double didn’t let that happen.

No matter how tired he is.
No matter where we are.
No matter what the day looked like before bedtime.

This dog never stops protecting his boy.

And because of him, I can close my eyes at night knowing someone else is always watching over Myles.

The most incredible diabetic alert dog.
The very best teammate. 🐾💙

03/15/2026

Helpful Infographic on Service Animals