Rosena Clarke-Turner

Board Member

Rosena Clarke-Turner is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW), and Registered Nurse (RN), with 27 years of experience as a health care professional. Her initial exposure to health care was as a RN in dialysis and critical care settings in the Bahamas for five years. After undergraduate studies in social work at Texas Christian University, Rosena worked for three years in St. Louis, Missouri as a community-based social worker assisting mental retardation-affected adults develop independent living skills. She returned to Fort Worth in 1988 and spent the next eight years as a medical social worker in acute care and mental health settings prior to functioning as a social work educator at Texas Woman’s University for eight years. She has undergraduate and graduate degrees in Social Work and is a candidate for the Ph. D. in Health Education at Texas Woman’s University.

For the last two and a half years, Rosena has been employed in Community Health research, Quality Management, or Health Education positions in Home Health Care and university settings. She is currently employed as Quality Management Director to Apex Home Health Care and as a Research Associate with TWU, to assist the Texas Statewide Coordinated Statement of Need Committee, as they develop HIV/AIDS Initiatives in the State of Texas.

Rosena has served as a volunteer for the Sickle Cell Association, member of the Circle T Council for Girl Scouting Board of Directors for six years, and as a member of the Inaugural Executive Committee of the Black Alumni Alliance at Texas Christian University. She comes to GPRC to help with GPRC’s youth leadership program that is geared toward bridging inner city youth from the Fort Worth and Denver areas with their Native American counterparts in the Great Plains Region.

Rosena Clarke-Turner is co-parent to two beautiful children, Valencia, 10 and Jay Edward, 7. She enjoys music and singing and one of her greatest joys is Kindergarten choir at First United Methodist Church with some 20 kids on a Sunday morning.

Both the development of such a program and the leadership training focus, as the kids become ecosystem participants and are challenged to use self-help initiatives to care for themselves, their community, and the environment, are critical components of making the Buffalo Commons a practical reality.