Thursday,
August 10, 1989, p. 9.
Rue joins Berkshire Farm
MONTICELLO -- Berkshire Farm Center and Services
for Youth recently announced the hiring of Tom Rue
as a new full-time prevention worker. He has been employed to
work with families of Sullivan County youths identified as at
high risk of being removed from their homes by family court.
Berkshire Farm is a family service agency
serving the families of adolescents.
A Monticello resident, Rue has been a probation
officer at the Sullivan County Department of Probation for the
past three years. Previously, he worked as a houseparent
at the former Wayne County Group Home in Beach Lake, and at
other youth oriented agencies.
He holds a masters degree in counseling services
from Rider College, and a BA in psychology from Trenton State
College. Rue served as president of the board of trustees for
the Delaware Community Center, is an adjunct professor at Sullivan
County Community College, and is a contributing editor to The
River Reporter.
Berkshire Farm is a private not-for-profit
agency rounded in 1886. It often placement prevention, community
services, therapeutic foster placement, group homes, secure
and nonsecure detention programs throughout New York State.
With a residential facility in Canaan, near
the Massachusetts border, the Sullivan County program is.administered
from a district office in Schenectady.
Locally the program is funded under a contract
with the Sullivan County Department of Social Services (DSS)
to provide intensive contact with a small number of families.
Referrals to the program are made through DSS.
For more information call 914/791-xxxx.
Related external links
Berkshire
Farm Center & Services for Youth
Sullivan
County Government Center
Sullivan
County Community College
Rider University
Trenton
State College
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