Dan Jepson - Chair
Dan Jepson serves as Secretary for the Impact Board of Directors and is completing his first year as a board member representing the Anderson Advisory Council which he joined in 2003. He is the Community Outreach Initiative Coordinator with Partners for a Healthy Community. Dan is currently the chair of the "Can We Talk" SC Advisory Committee and a facilitator trainer for the program and is also the Health & Welfare Chair for the SCPTA Board of Directors. Previously he served as board chair for the SC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy as well as the Greenville Council for the Prevention of Teen Pregnancy. He and his wife Susan are long time residents of Travelers Rest and have two adult daughters.

Nancy Hellenga
Nancy B. Hellenga has been on the IMPACT! Board of Directors for nearly four years.  She has been the Board Chair since August of 2005.  She has received degrees from Grady Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, Georgia State University and Emory University all in Atlanta, GA.
She is very active with music: singing, directing children’s choir and hand bells.  At present, she is on the Family and Adolescent Counseling & Education Services Board of Directors in Anderson.

Wayne A. Diehl
From 2000 to 2005, Mr. Diehl was a full time adjunct professor at Anderson University, teaching junior and senior level courses in marketing and management.  He retired in 1999 from a 40 year career in the defense systems business, including 30 years Raytheon Company.  His last assignment was Vice President and General Manager, Raytheon Pacific Company, Taipei, Taiwan.  During his career, Mr. Diehl had assignments in marketing, both domestic and international, and program management positions in the fields of ballistic missile defense, air defense systems and advanced radar systems.  Prior to his business career, Mr. Diehl served in the United States Air Force as a pilot and communications officer.  Mr. Diehl has a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MBA.  He is a native of Easton, Pennsylvania, and is married to his wife Jean, a native of Abbeville, SC.  They have four children and three grandchildren.

Kathryn Manson - Secretary
Kathryn Manson has lived in Anderson for 26 years.  She is married to Bill Manson.  They have two daughters, Katie, a senior at Clemson and Charlotte, a freshman at Clemson.  She has been a homemaker since the birth of their first child and began a life filled with volunteering in the elementary, middle, and high schools.  She is a member of First Presbyterian Church where she is actively involved in Adult Choir, Chancel Chimers, Wednesday night fellowship, and other positions within the Presbyterian Women Council.  She currently serves on the United Way Volunteer Center Advisory Committee. She joined the Board of Directors of IMPACT in August 2006.

Tomiko Williams
Tomiko Williams is an Intake Officer with the Dept. of Juvenile Justice. She joined the agency in January 2006. She previously worked for Anderson Interfaith Ministries as the Women and Children Succeding Program Director for 3 ½ years and for The SC Center for Equal Justice in Greenville, SC for 2 years.

She is originally from Newport, RI and moved to SC 7 years ago. She attended Salve Regina University in Newport, RI where she received her BA in Administration of Justice. Mrs. Williams recently received her Masters of Management in Public Administration from the University of Phoenix in April 2007.

Elaine W. Bailey
Elaine Bailey has worked in child welfare for over 30 years. She entered the field as a foster care caseworker and then went to the Continuum of Care for Emotionally Disturbed Children, progressing from front line worker to Regional Director for the Upstate.

In 1996, a merger between the DSS and the Continuum of Care created the Managed Treatment Services Division of DSS. Mrs. Bailey facilitated that transition as Regional Director of the new Upstate MTS Division.

Mrs. Bailey became the County Director for Oconee DSS in 2004.

Mrs. Bailey has an undergraduate degree in political science from the University of West Georgia and earned a graduate degree in Management from Southern Wesleyan University.

In addition to serving on IMPACT!s board, Mrs. Bailey's current community service activities include facilitation of the Oconee County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council and participation in a workgroup to establish a geriatric case management program for Anderson and Oconee counties.

She has been married for over 30 years to Wes Bailey and has two adult daughters, Jocelyn Smith and Valerie Bailey, who are the mothers of Mrs. Bailey's two delightful grandsons.