Theresa McCutcheon

As Managing Director of the Institute for Families at Theresa McCutcheon leads a team of 80+ professionals delivering a $19M portfolio of training, technical assistance and applied research projects advancing the human service and child welfare workforce. Prior to joining Rutgers, she led an array of community-based initiatives through the educational and social service sector.  She began her career conducting assessments with new parents to identify how caregiver support benefits newborns and grew New Jersey’s first home visitation pilots into a statewide network.   She was a national trainer for Prevent Child Abuse America as well as several evidence-based parenting models.  As a certified school social worker, she managed school-based, clinical programming for youth and as an avid community organizer she held leadership positions directing university- and county-based volunteer programs.  McCutcheon has served as a consultant for non-profit executives and board members and volunteer for local nonprofit boards. McCutcheon has been a part-time lecturer at the SSW and is a Rutgers Leadership Academy Fellow.  Her most challenging and rewarding role, however, has been raising two spirited young men.