Pastor Will Yancy, M.A.Ed., is Senior Pastor at Impact Church – Bay Area in the San Francisco Bay Area. Where he develops mature disciples for kingdom outcomes and gospel impact.
He has been a leader in the field of domestic violence and batterer intervention for almost 30 years and serves as pastor, educator, and trainer. He is the Executive Director of Triumph Educational Center (TEC), a faith-based program that provides counseling services for families in crisis. His personal mission is equipping people to triumph in life.
Pastor Will provides training for the batterer intervention providers and facilitators in Alameda County, faith leaders, and others working with aggressors of DV. He currently provides domestic violence training for the faith community through a partnership with the Alameda County Family Justice Center. The goal is to inform, equip, empower and support the faith community in for the prevention and intervention of domestic violence. Pastor Will provides technical assistance to faith leaders that enable them to recognize abusive behaviors and/or the effects of abusive behaviors, provide appropriate guidance to victims of abuse, hold abusers accountable, and to develop a Domestic Violence policy for their church.
Pastor Will assists staff and volunteers from various organizations, to become domestic violence aware, and develop the skills and competencies necessary to influence behavioral change. He is a servant leader assisting the efforts of the Alameda County Probation Department, the Family Violence Council of Alameda County, the Alameda County Family Justice Center, and the San Leandro Domestic Violence Task Force, working to improve the care of those victimized by domestic violence, enforcement of domestic violence laws, and education and treatment for perpetrators of domestic violence.
Pastor Will has served as a speaker, panel guest, and workshop presenter for several organizations including:
- The Family Violence Law Center of Oakland, CA
- California Southern Baptist Convention
- Summit Medical Center (Sutter Health), Oakland CA
- American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC)
- Second Chance Inc, of Newark, CA
- Building Futures for Women and Children of San Leandro, CA
- Transforming Communities: Technical Assistance Training and Resource Center of Marin, CA
- Black Infant Health Project, San Francisco, CA
- First 5 Alameda, CA
- LifeLinks International, Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada
- Volunteers Of America Northern California Nevada
- Contra Costa College
- University of San Francisco
- Pacific School of Religion
- West Contra Costa Youth Services Bureau
- Christian Community Development Association (CCDA)
- Chabot Community College