Advisory Council

Tomasine has served as a Social Worker supporting youth, young adults and families for the past 10 years and for the past 6 years in the Hudson Valley. Tomasine formally served at AFFCNY as the AGAPE Hudson Valley Director assisting to launch its post adoption program in the Hudson Valley.  

Tomasine also served as the Student Resource Navigator at Dutchess Community College where she coordinated basic need support services and academic need student assistance services through DCC CARES and the Foster Youth College Success Initiative. 

In 2019, Tomasine was appointed by Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan as the Director of the Ulster County Office of Employment & Training and Workforce Development Board. Tomasine’s team supports youth and young adults in foster, adoptive and/or kinship care access paid work experiences, paid training opportunities and employment through the Young Adult Employment Program (YAEP) and Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP.)  

In her volunteer work, Tomasine serves as the Vice Chair of the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Dutchess County Family and Consumer Education Program Advisory Committee, FCE PAC, Board representative and member of the CCEDC Strategic Planning Committee. Tomasine also serves on the Advisory Committee for the SUNY Ulster Human Services Program and Career and Technical Education Advisory Council. Tomasine also serves on the Ulster BOCES Hudson Valley Pathways Academy Internship Committee. 

Tomasine was raised in kinship care, is a kinship caregiver to members in her family and mother to her daughter Maya.