Barbara Gassner

Barbara Gassner is an Associate of Global Learning Partners. She is an experienced educator in the fields of prevention and adult learning. She has worked across several social service delivery systems in the areas of child protection, welfare and welfare reform, adult education, delinquency prevention, substance abuse prevention, public education and mental health.

Barbara trained and practiced in conflict skills and mediations at the Center for Conflict Resolution in Madison, Wisconsin and has researched the impact of wartime trauma on Vietnam Veterans and their families. She led implementation of a Caring Communities Delinquency Prevention Grant, originating in the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, for the Town of Randolph, Vermont. She was a member of State of Vermont’s Prevention Institute Consultation Team. In that capacity she worked in consultation to a wide variety of State Agents and community coalitions.

As a member of the State of Vermont’s Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities Consultation Team, she has worked in consultation with community coalitions in towns which were recipients of State Incentive Grants to address alcohol use/abuse among Vermont’s young people. She also has worked with groups dedicated to addressing the growing use of heroin in Vermont.

Barbara currently implements an adult education and training program, Getting Ready To Work, which is part of Vermont’s Welfare to Work effort. In her role as coordinator, she builds collaborative relationships with local service providers and businesses to address the needs of the participants in GRTW.

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