Staff / Board
Staff
Ruth Harshfield
Executive Director
ruthh@actsoregon.org
Kate Murphy
Community Traffic Safety Program Coordinator
katem@actsoregon.org
Gayle Watts
Child Passenger Safety Program Coordinator
gaylew@actsoregon.org
Sandy Holt
Child Passenger Safety Technician Coordinator
sandyh@actsoregon.org
Ava Leeper
Administrative Assistant
safety @actsoregon.org
Board List
Tammy Franks, President
Hillsboro
TFranks@LHS.org
Tammy Franks is the Child Passenger Safety Coordinator for Legacy Emanuel Children's Hospital. She coordinates the child passenger safety education and outreach activities for all 5 hospitals in Legacy Health System. Tammy is a certified Child Passenger Safety Technician Instructor as well as an instructor of “Safe Travel for All Children,” a course focusing on special needs transportation. She has over 10 years experience in the injury prevention field.
Stephen Manning, Vice president
Keizer
stephen687@earthlink.net
Stephen has served as a Board member with ACTS Oregon since October of 2002 and currently serves as the vice president of the Board. Stephen retired from the Oregon Liquor Control Commission in 1999. He served twenty-eight years and an inspector/investigator with the agency. In addition, Stephen served as a Reserve Deputy with the Marion County Sheriff's Office from 1975 to 2002. In the last few years of service he worked with the traffic team. He was an instructor on Standardized Field Sobriety Testing and was active in arresting numerous impaired drivers during his time of service. Stephen founded the Impaired Driving Task Force in Douglas County and served as its Chair. In addition he was a member of the Douglas County Safe Communities Coalition and is the past Chair of that organization. Stephen has been a Child Passenger Safety Seat Technician.
Lucie Drum, Secretary
Portland
Lucie_drum@amr-ems.com
Lucie Drum is the Community Education/Injury Prevention Specialist with American Medical Response (AMR) Northwest. Lucie Drum is responsible for the coordination of community education and injury programs at AMR. Under her direction, AMR offers an extensive array of health safety education and injury prevention programs for all age groups. Ms. Drum is a spokesperson and information resource to the public and to the media on timely health and safety topics. She is a certified Child Passenger Safety Instructor. She has over 26 years of experience in emergency medical services and injury prevention.
Daniel Marcisz, Treasurer
Medford
MarcisDE@jacksoncounty.org
Dan Marcisz is an Engineer with the Medford Fire Department. Along with some expertise in the Fire Service and EMS, Dan has a passion for children riding safely in vehicles. As a Child Passenger Safety Technician Instructor he helps manage his departments active "Car Seat Program", and participates with the local Rogue Valley SAFE KIDS Chapter. These duties include planning checkup clinics, offering car seat checks by appointment, public education classes, and formal classes for installers, and participating in SAFE KIDS activities. After over 31 years with the department he still has a drive to get the message out.
Larry Christianson
McMinneville
dejaceo@msn.com
Larry Christianson is the owner of Deja Program Development, a safety research, training
and program development firm located in McMinnville, OR. Larry retired from the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) after 27 years of service. He is currently a Defensive
Driving Teacher for rural transit drivers and an instructor for the Technology Transfer (T2)
Center of ODOT, teaching various road maintenance courses to public works staff around the state. He is also contracting with ODOT’s Local Government Section to develop a training program for local agencies on topics related to federal aid road project delivery. Mr.
Christianson served ODOT for thirteen years in construction project surveying, office management, and for fourteen years developing statewide traffic safety programs such
as the safety corridor, Give ‘Em A Brake and work zone enforcement programs. He also
has experience in grant management of minor engineering projects.
John Naccarato
Oregon City
johnnac@co.clackamas.or.us
John Naccarato has been Supervisor for the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office Traffic
Unit for 5 years, is a Crash Re-constructionist, a Police Academy Instructor on Crash Investigations and the Multi-Agency Carrier Enforcement coordinator. John is a staff
member on the Clackamas County Traffic Safety Commission.
Michael Stupfel
Salem
michaelstupfel@state.or.us
