A clinical physiologist and entrepreneur, Bibbins is CEO of PrepWorld, LLC, an educational technology company. He led the housing repatriation efforts, providing services for thousands of New Orleans residents returning after Hurricane Katrina.
Born and raised in New Orleans, Bibbins experienced first-hand, the trauma of children in disasters. As a child, he lived through the devastation of hurricanes Camille and Betsy.
While overseeing the recovery efforts of displaced adults and children post hurricane Katrina Bibbins worked with key stakeholders and educators in assisting citizens who wanted to return to New Orleans post hurricane as the city worked toward rebuilding he saw first-hand how children struggled to make sense of what happened as they worked toward acclimating to the new --"new!"
Disasters are calamitous, traumatic and customarily outside the scope of normal human experiences and likely to involve psychological and physical injury. Children are uniquely affected by disasters because they are afflicted not only by the trauma of the event but also by their parents fears ad distress.
Bibbins previously authored Tired of Diets? Hate Going to a Gym? Want to Lose Weight? Let's Talk! (2000), which explores ties between trauma, weight loss, and obesity. In 2014, he designed and created PrepBiz, a game-based trauma informed educational solution to improve children’s decision making in emergencies. "I’ve always loved words and telling stories, Bibbins said. I'm also obsessed with everything digital and tech, and believe it's the perfect way to reach today's children." The PrepBiz game-based learning products using artificial intelligence (AI), cognitive computing and chat bots are currently under development and testing, and Bibbins anticipates their release later this year.
Disappointed by the lack of preparedness resources for children's and tools that uses personalized and machine learning, which is how kids learn nowadays, Bibbins began looking for ways to develop tools that kids would embrace that would teach them engagement knowledge for better outcomes and ameliorate trauma from disaster events. He started PrepWorld to develop solutions and tools for helping children cope with disaster trauma. Since starting PrepBiz, Bibbins has teamed with and consulted with some of the top experts in trauma, education, emergency management, and technology to develop products and tools aimed at preparing children for emergencies. Bibbins derived the characters and stories for the Adventures of Hopper series from his own childhood experiences growing up in New Orleans.