Tamara White is a Community Psychologist with experience across child and family services, education and program development and improvement. She has more than 20 years' experience in delivering programs and services with families, and for more than eight years has worked as a knowledge broker on program evaluation and implementation projects.
Tamara has led a range of capacity building projects within child and family services across Australia that bring together research, policy and practice. In previous roles, she has worked as a school psychologist, child mental health practitioner, evaluation consultant, private practitioner, and consultancy manager. She led a national capacity-building project with family violence services to improve adoption of evidence-based practice and increase readiness for outcomes measurement, as well as program development with a women’s shelter delivering a school readiness program in a remote Indigenous community in the East Kimberley.
In her role as Principal Advisor at CEI, Tamara uses implementation science to bring evidence into practice across a range of projects applying a common elements approach in family services, and that build the evidence base of what works for Aboriginal organisations, practitioners, children and families. Tamara is passionate about improving the impact of work delivered in the community and government sector, particularly for marginalised and vulnerable communities.
Tamara holds a Master’s degree in Applied Psychology from Victoria University (Melbourne) and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of London, Royal Holloway.
