Teresa Rafael

Teresa Rafael, MSW, has been executive director of the National Alliance of Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds since 2002. Her professional experience in the child abuse and neglect prevention field ranges from working for eight years with child protective services, foster care, and adoption in her early career to extensive work on primary prevention in the private nonprofit sector. 

Teresa previously served as executive director of two statewide organizations, was regional vice president of a large statewide multi-service agency, and was vice president of a national child abuse prevention organization. She helped bring a focus on prevention to a large, statewide hundred-year-old organization, where she led the development of numerous family support programs such as Family Resource Centers and home visiting programs and helped the agency begin to partner with parents in all aspects of the work. She was responsible for a $10,000,000 five-year Comprehensive Child Development Research Project funded through the US Head Start Bureau, which was part of the research basis for the current Early Head Start program.

Teresa later served as a consultant for numerous state and national organizations. Throughout her career, she has worked in partnership with professional colleagues and parent leaders.

Longer bio: https://ctfalliance.org/teresa-rafael/