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 founded 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.