Laura R. Yeomans

• Assisting Quaker committees in organizing, planning and writing;
• Working with a team of staff and volunteers to manage the church website: www.quakersdc.org;
• Administering the church membership and contribution database and directory;
• Assisting community groups, families, and agencies planning events on site.

• Providing supportive counseling, advocacy, case management to clients in the shelter and on the crisis hotline in Spanish and English.
• Screening potential clients for acceptance into the emergency shelter and transitional housing programs.
• Facilitating weekly support groups with adult and children clients.
• Overseeing the physical properties and maintenance for MSP housing sites.

• Case management for immigrant Spanish-speaking battered women to access emergency, medical, legal and social services.
• Advocacy for Spanish-speaking low-income residents with medical, insurance, work, housing and utility problems.
• Coordination and teaching English classes for adult immigrants.
• Volunteer recruitment and training of Latino and American volunteers.
• Community outreach and organizing in the Latino community.
• Leadership development, training and organizing.
• Translation for elementary school with immigrant families.
• Grant writing, documenting progress toward funded programs.

WKSU featured Yeomans in an April 12, 2006, radio news story about the immigration debate in Ohio.

• Writing a consumer and environmental column printed weekly for 13 years in ten Ohio newspapers including the Ashtabula Star Beacon and Hamilton Journal News.
• Managing and writing 15 database studies analyzing contributions to Ohio politicians and compliance with campaign finance disclosure requirements.
• Authoring more than 10 database studies and reports concerning pollution, contaminants and toxic accidents.
• Holding press conferences, interviewing with newspaper, radio and television reporters.
• Testifying before Ohio legislative committees. Testimony for H.B.119 Laura R. Yeomans, Research Director
• Coordinating a legislative campaign in 1999 which culminated in the passage of the Voters' Right-to-Know Act.
• Grant Writing

A complete list of reports, studies and other publications by Laura Yeomans

Walsh College,
Canton, Ohio.

Counseling and Human Development, Graduate class in counseling. 2007

Mount Holyoke College.
South Hadley, Massachusetts.

Bachelor of arts degree in political science. 1974-76, 1977-78

University of Edinburgh.
Edinburgh, Scotland

Areas of concentration: British politics and social administration system. 1976-1977

• 2010 Volunteer English teacher for Gilcrest Center for Cultural Diversity
• 2010 Volunteer English tutor with Language Etc., Our Lady of the Americas
• 2010 Member of Hunger and Homelessness Task Force, Friends Meeting of Washington
• 2009 District of Columbia Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Advocate Core Competency Training.
• 2009 ServSafe Certification, DC Certified Food Protection Manager.
• 2009 Volunteer with Casa de Maryland to assist Latino immigrants.
• 2009 Three Community Partnership trainings on reasonable accommodation, conflict management, and housing inspections.
• 2009 Department of Human Services "Preliminary Interview for Benefits" Training.
• Winter 2009 CPR/First Aid training.
• Fall 2008 Phonebank volunteer with Obama Washington D.C. campaign office.
• 1996 to 2008 Board Member of Hispanic Ministries of Tuscarawas County.
• 1980 to 2004 Coordinator of phonebanks for different candidates.
• 1990 Co-Chair of the Tuscarawas County Emergency Planning Committee.
• 1985 to 1986 Co-Chair Projects Committee of the Commission on Religion in Appalachia.