TAURMINI FENTRESS

Dynamic leader with a proven track record, specializing in cultivating a wellbeing culture and driving operational excellence. Expert in data-driven innovation and stakeholder engagement, I have successfully implemented equity-centered policies and developed robust research plans, enhancing collective impact and fostering collaboration across diverse teams and communities.

• Fentress, T., et al., Dual Study Describing Patient-Driven Harm Reduction Goal-Setting Among People Experiencing Homelessness and Alcohol Use Disorder., Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 29, 3, 261-271, 2021
• Fentress, T., Collins, S., Wald, S., Defining Harm Reduction Goal-Setting Among Individuals Experiencing Homelessness and Alcohol Use Disorder., Paper, Society for Social Work and Research 2021 Annual Conference, 2021
• Fentress, T. & Spencer, M., Understanding Food Security Among Low-Income Youth and Youth of Color., Symposia, Society for Social Work and Research 2021 Annual Conference, 2021
• Collins, S…Fentress, T…, Characterizing Components of and Attendance at resident-driven Housing First Programming in the Context of Community-based Participatory Research., Journal of Community Psychology, 49, 5, 1376-1392, 2020
• Spencer, M & Fentress, T., Environmental Justice, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders., Human Biology, 2020
• Fentress, T. & Spencer, M., Who's Going to Bed Hungry? Covid-19's Inequitable Impact on Food Security., 2020, National Center for Institutional Diversity, online
• McCowan, K., & Fentress, T., Racial Equity Training and Intergroup Dialogue, University of Washington, 11/2019
• Romich, J., & Fentress, T., The Policy Roundtable Model: Encouraging Scholar-Practitioner Collaboration to Address Poverty-related Social Problems., Journal of Social Service Research, 45, 1, 76-86, 2019
• Gavin, A., Grote, N., Conner, K., & Fentress, T., Racial Discrimination and Preterm Birth among African American Women: The Important Role of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder., Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice, 11, 4, 6, 2018

References and further experience available upon request

Title: PhD, LICSW, MPA, MSW

• Policy Mediation and Program Development, Ruckleshaus Center, Seattle, WA, 01/2016, Develop curricula and provide evidence-based training to balance power in policy mediation based on research and evaluations
• Clinician, Community Center for Alternative Programming, Seattle, WA, 01/2015, Provided therapy to those impacted by systemic injustice, trauma, and incarceration
• Member, National Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) Clinicians' Network Steering Committee, USA, 01/2024 - present, The Steering Committee works collaboratively to inform the clinical agenda for the National HCH Council.
• Advisor, Research with Expert Advisors on Drug Use (READU), Seattle, WA, 01/2023 - present, READU is a team of researchers, including those with lived experience with drug use, who work to improve overdose response for people of color in King County.
• Committee Member, King County Treatment Research Workgroup, Seattle, WA, 01/2023 - present, A collaborative of academic researchers, managed care organizations, policy makers, and other leaders in the development of substance use disorder treatment, innovation, and policy development.
• Committee Member, Overdose Prevention: Housing Provider Community of Practice, Seattle, WA, 01/2023 - present, A collaborative community, led by King County Public Health, consisting of clinical leaders within permanent supportive housing, that convenes to think together about how to minimize overdose and other harms associated with substance use.
• Reviewer, Health Care for the Homeless, Seattle, WA, 01/2023 - present, Reviewer of RFPs for funding related to the treatment of substance use disorders and other comorbid behavioral health conditions that disproportionately impact individuals with the lived experience of homelessness.
• Founding Board Member, Harm Reduction Treatment, Training, and Technical Solutions, Seattle, WA, 01/2019 - present, HaRT3S works with counselors, clinicians, clinical practices, health care systems, state and community-based agencies to embrace and enact evidence-based, community codeveloped ways to reduce substance-related harm and improve quality of life for people who use substances, their families and their communities.
• Founding Committee Member, Substance Use Recovery Services Advisory Committee, Seattle, WA, 01/2021 - present, Led by the Washington State Health Care Authority, we are tasked with establishing a substance use recovery services plan.
• Committee Member, Overdose Emergency Innovative Recovery Task Force, Seattle, WA, 01/2021 - present, OEIR task force, convened and led community organizers, works to expand housing, treatment and harm reduction services and engages in efforts to reduce social stigma and to support upward social mobility.
• Committee Member, Community Advisory Board for Life Enhancing Alcohol -management Program, Seattle, WA, 01/2017 - 12/2023
• Committee Member, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee of Neighborcare, Seattle, WA, 01/2021 - 12/2023, EDI committee tasked with holding Neighborcare Health to anti-racist and anti-oppressive practices, policies, and provision of services.

• Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR)
• Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW): LW1089432
• NPI: 1306228192