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Beverly Frantz
Beverly Frantz coordinates the Criminal Justice initiative and the National Academy for Equal Justice for People with Developmental Disabilities at the Institute on Disabilities, Temple University. Her area of concentration for the past ten years has been the development and implementation of sexual violence risk-reduction awareness training programs for individuals with disabilities and their support systems. She is the co-founder of A Woman’s Place, a domestic violence program and shelter. Ms. Frantz has published several articles, and developed personal safety/sexual abuse curricula for adults with physical and cognitive disabilities. She was also the recipient of the Pennsylavia Governor’s Victim Service Pathway Award for her work in building awareness and enhancing the capacity of victim service organizations to provide appropriate and effective services to individuals with disabilities who are crime victims. Ms. Frantz earned an M.S. from Villanova University and the London School of Economics. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Human Sexuality, with a concentration on people with disabilities, at Widener University.
