Vicki Courtney

Who is Vicki Courtney?

Vicki Courtney is the founder of Virtuous Reality Ministries, producing online content and hosting events across the United States for preteen and teen girls and their parents. She is the best-selling author of Your Girl, Between, and two ECPA Christian Book Award winners, TeenVirtue and TeenVirtue Confidential. Known and respected as a "mom in the trenches," Vicki has shared her youth culture wisdom on CNN, FOX News, and Focus on the Family, and blogs each week at VirtueAlert.com.

Courtney began her speaking ministry in 1995 and then developed Virtuous Reality Ministries in 1998. Initially her ministry was geared toward college women, but when they began telling her they wished they had heard her message sooner, she began including younger girls in her ministry audience. Today her national ministry’s website, resources, and events reach over 150,000 teenagers and mothers each year. Courtney’s 2005 TeenVirtue project won the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Medallion of Excellence.

In 2000, Courtney launched her online Virtuous Reality magazine for college women and later expanded it to reach middle school and high school girls and mothers. Courtney’s You and Your Girl mother/daughter events, hosted by LifeWay Christian Resources, focus on the keys to helping young women be confident and resist cultural pressures against purity and modesty. Her website Virtue Alert is designed to give mothers a quick look at current issues that they may face with their teenagers and strategies for how to address them.