Carla Stumpf Patton is the senior director of Suicide Postvention Programs at the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS). As a subject matter expert in grief, trauma, and suicide, she helped develop the TAPS Suicide Postvention Model™, providing outreach and care to bereaved survivors. She is trained in Crisis Response Planning, certified as an Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Trainer (ASIST) in suicide first aid, and Psychological Autopsy Investigations. She is the surviving spouse of Sgt. Richard Stumpf, an Active-Duty Marine Corps Drill Instructor and Gulf War Combat Veteran who died by suicide in 1994, several days before their only child was born. She is remarried to a retired US Marine, a surviving widower, with whom she shares five children.
