Stephanie Frogge, MTS is a professional crime victim services consultant working with programs that assist victims of crime and address social justice issues. She provides customized training, program development and technical assistance in all facets of trauma reaction and helping responses. Among other projects Stephanie currently works as program coordinator for a Defense-Initiated Victim Outreach (DIVO) initiative through the University of Texas at Austin's Center for Restorative Justice and Restorative Dialogue. She also teaches in UT's School of Social Work.

Ms. Frogge has over twenty-five years' experience in the area of sudden death, trauma response, victim services administration, victim assistance and activism, writing and speaking extensively on victim assistance and trauma issues. She is the former National Director of Victim Services at Mothers Against Drunk Driving's National office overseeing MADD's internationally recognized victim services programs. While with MADD, she helped develop their death notification curricula and the first training program for clergy and funeral directors who work with homicide survivors. She was also editor and primary author for MADDVOCATE magazine. She recently served two years as the Director of Peer Support Services for TAPS - Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, a Washington, DC based national organization that provides peer support for those whose loved ones have died while serving in the military.

Ms. Frogge has presented hundreds of workshops, lectures and keynote presentations around the United States. Recently she served as faculty for OVC's Leadership Academy.

Ms. Frogge holds a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice from Texas Christian University and a masters in Theological Studies from Brite Divinity School. She is also a lecturer in the College of Criminal Justice at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas where she has taught courses on juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice, victimology, victim services delivery, domestic violence and criminology.