Trainer Profiles: Frank Barry

Frank Barry

Frank Barry, Principal Investigator of Interagency Programming and Case Management for Families with Multiple Needs Component, CPSTI; Senior Extension Associate, Family Life Development Center. Mr. Barry has been the Director of the Rural Services Training Project since 1988, and is the Project Director and Principal Investigator of "Community Lifelines", the national demonstration project in Chemung County. He recently completed a four year term on the U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect for which he authored a strategy paper on strengthening families through neighborhood and community development. His past activities with the Center have included directing the STAR demonstration project to improve coordination between runaway and homeless youth shelters and CPS services. He was also the Director of the federal Region II Resource Center on Child Abuse and Neglect which provided information and technical assistance throughout New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. He has his MS from Cornell University.