Tillamook County Women's Resource Center

Lundy Bancroft has 20 years of experience in interventions for abusive men and their families. He is the author of three books in the field, including The Batterer as Parent, which won the 2004 literary award from the North American Resource Center for Child Welfare, and Why Does He Do That?, the bestselling book on domestic violence. He has also published numerous articles on the subject.

Lundy, who is headquartered in Massachusettes, is a former co-director of Emerge, the nation’s first counseling program for men who batter. He has worked with more than a thousand abusers directly as an intervention counselor and has served as clinical supervisor on another thousand cases. He has served extensively as a custody evaluator, child abuse investigator and expert witness in domestic violence and child abuse cases.

He is frequently invited to speak at gatherings of judges and other court personnel, child protective workers, therapists and law enforcement officials. His current work focuses on legal and counseling interventions for abusive men and the impact on children of exposure to domestic violence.

Rev. Dr. Marie M. Fortune grew up in North Carolina where she received her undergraduate degree from Duke University. She trained at Yale Divinty School and was ordained a minister in the United Church of Christ in 1976. In 1977, after minstering at a local parish, she founded the Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence, now known as FaithTrust Institute, and served as its executive director until 1999. Today FaithTrust Institute is a multifaith, multicultural organization providing religious materials to address the faith aspects of abuse. Fortune continues as its senior analyst.

Fortune is a pastor, educator, theologian, ethicist and author of numerous books, including Sexual Violence: the Sin Revisited, Keeping the Faith: Questions and Answers for Christian Abused Women, Is Nothing Sacred?, and Love Does No Harm: Sexual Ethics for the Rest of Us. She blogs regularly at  www.faithtrustinstitute.org

 Fortune has served on the National Advisory Committee for the Office on Violence Against Women in the U.S. Departmen tof Justice and on the Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence in the U.S. Department of Defense.  She edited The Journal on Religion and Abuse from 2000-2008.

After nearly 29 years with the Salem Oregon Police Department and neighboring agencies, Lt. Caillier retired as the criminal investigations commander and chief information officer. Caillier has evaluated and managed projects involving a wide range of operational, communication and information technologies and has been recognized for his efforts by the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Oregon Peace Officers Association, Oregon Chiefs of Police Association, Oregon Sheriff’s Association, the Marion County District Attorney’s Office and the Salem Police Department. Caillier served as an adjunct professor at Western Oregon University in the Criminal Justice Program for 10 years until his retirement.  Since 2003, he has been a successful consultant and principal for Emergency Services Solutions LLC specializing in evaluating, planning, acquiring and implementing public safety technologies for the private and public sectors. He is also a City Councilor for Keizer, Oregon.

Mary Ann Dearborn LCSW, is a provider of clinical, prevention and research services in rural Oregon who served as violence and sexual assault prevention coordinator for Tillamook County and has developed, taught and evaluated the Women's Resource Center's "Healthy Relationships" program, an in-school multi-session violence prevention curriculum for public school students (grades 7-12) over the past 3 years.  

Ray Dinkins is the Community Educator for the Women’s Crisis Support Team and Talsunne Safe House. He has more than 10 years of experience in education, youth development and community outreach.  He has worked in adjudicated youth facilities, as a student advocate, a high school science teacher, a youth pastor and a community educator.  Dinkins works with hundreds of young men across Josephine County in an effort to reduce violence, build community and disrupt the hyper-masculine norms often found in the youth culture. He lives with his wife and three children in Grants Pass, Or

Jayne Downing has been working with victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence for more than 19 years. She has been the executive director of Mid-Valley Women’s Crisis Service since 1997.  During that time, she has trained more than 25,000 people about domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking. Downing has served on numerous local and statewide taskforces and committees, including the Governor’s Task Forces on Domestic Violence and Elder Abuse, the Attorney General’s Sexual Assault Task Force and Batterer Intervention Standards Advisory Board and the Marion County and DHS Domestic Violence Councils. She has received numerous awards, including the Governor’s Outstanding Victim Advocacy Award, DHS Saving Lives Award, Midori Hamilton Award, Vern Miller Key Citizen Award and Athens Award Leadership Award.

Tina Jones is a sergeant with the Portland Police Bureau. She has 10 years of law enforcement experience, including corrections and patrol work. She is currently assigned to the Domestic Violence Enhanced Response Team (DVERT), which targets high lethality domestic violence offenders in a collaborative response. She has a Masters Degree in business administration, a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice, and a Graduate Certificate in nonprofit management.

Cheryl O'Neill is the domestic and sexual violence coordinator for the Oregon Department of Human Services and served as the executive director of Womenspace, the primary domestic violence agency in Lane County, from 2004 until 2009. Before that, she worked as the Womenspace Assistant Director, spent four years as the coordinator of the Lane County Domestic Violence Council and was the first legal advocate in the Stop Violence Against Women Project, a collaboration between Legal Aid, the University of Oregon Law School, Womenspace and Sexual Assault Support Services. She entered the field in the early 1990s as a volunteer, answering the crisis line and then facilitating a support group, after which she was hired as the Rural Outreach worker in Junction City.

Gabby Santos is the Program Coordinator for Underserved Communities for the Oregon Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence (OCADSV). She has worked with survivors of violence in roles ranging from Inverness Jail support group facilitator to legal advocate for the Arizona Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Her 16 years of advocacy and community education have helped to promote violence-free living within various underserved communities. Racial justice work, gender identity activism and criminal justice reform are at the heart of her passion. Santos provides leadership to the OCADSV Communities of Color Task Force, coordinates the Oregon DELTA Preparing and Raising Expectations for Prevention Project (DELTA PREP), participates in the Gender Positive Shelter Accessibility Committee (GPSAC) and is a member of the Firearms and Domestic Violence Task Force.

Chiquita Rollins is one of Oregon's premiere authorities on domestic violence, with 30 years of experience in the field. She is Multnomah County's Domestic Violence Coordinator, overseeing staffing of the Family Violence Coordinating Council and administering a $4 million budget. She is lead policy and planning expert for the County and the City of Portland and is involved at the statewide level in policy and funding. In 2009, she presented a series of lectures in Japan on intervention best practices.

Elaine Walters is the executive director of the Trauma Healing Project, an organization that provides training and community outreach, research and evaluation and direct holistic services to support the healing of trauma and violence. Previously, she coordinated the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program for the Attorney General's Sexual Assault Task Force in Oregon. For the past 16 years she also has worked as a consultant, trainer and community organizer addressing the problem of intimate violence. She has designed and facilitated workshops and trainings on many related topics and has provided direct services and support to youth and adults impacted by violence, abuse and other forms of trauma.