Tillamook County Women's Resource Center

Deborah Yund

Deborah Yund retires

Deborah Yund retired Dec. 31, ending a 17-year run as a volunteer and then staff member of Tillmook County Women’s Resource Center.

“There’s really no way we can describe how valuable Deb’s contributions to this agency have been over the years,” said WRC Executive Director Kathleen Marvin. “Whenever and however we needed her, she was always there for us. We will miss her and we wish her every happiness.”

Most recently, Yund, who earned a teaching credential in 1974 from the University of Michigan, had served as TCWRC’s education coordinator. She came to Tillamook County in 1981, when she worked for Tillamook County Education Services District. She later taught kindergarten at Nestucca Elementary School in Cloverdale.

She began volunteering for what was then the Women’s Crisis Center in 1994 as an advocate and trainer.

When Yund was appointed to the education coordinator position in 2009, she said she was excited to be able to teach all ages about the nature of violence.

“We’re trying to educate everyone that violence is not an accident; it’s a choice,” she said then. “By learning how to recognize the difference between emotions and actions, we can learn how to change our behavior toward others. Any of us can learn how to change, whether it’s the way we relate to people at work, in the community, at school or in the family.”

Leeauna Perry

Leeauna Perry joins team

Contract worker Leeauna Perry is a new face at the Women’s Resource Center. Perry is helping with bookkeeping, payroll and fund-raising efforts. Since moving to Tillamook two years ago from Eugene with her husband, who works at Tillamook PUD, Perry has gotten involved in the local arts community. Besides teaching piano and violin, she is the volunteer executive director of Bay City Arts Center and is a 4-H leader helping in the areas of sewing, cooking and photography. She is helping to plan a number of fundraising events, including possible house parties for donors. She hopes to assist TCWRC with planned giving campaigns and the establishment of an endowment. And she may be doing a soup cookbook that would be sold during the annual Soup Bowl in May.

Allen changes hats

Adrienne Allen, who has been an advocate at Tillamook County Women’s Resource Center for three years, will now be spending a large portion of her half-time position working out of the County Health Department helping teen mothers, pregnant women and others in need of counseling around the issues of domestic violence and sexual assault. She replaces Emily Fanjoy, who recently joined the Health Department staff.

The position is funded through a grant given to Women’s Resource Center by the Oregon Department of Justice, Crime Victims Assistance office.