Emily Jenkins, President/CEO
Emily Jenkins has been the President/CEO of the Arizona Council of Human Service Providers since January 2008. She has worked in the health field for much of her professional life. An attorney, Ms. Jenkins has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Arizona and a Juris Doctorate from ArizonaStateUniversity.
Emily’s first major professional position was as Executive Director of the Arizona Family Planning Council. She developed the organization into a statewide association of family planning agencies. For fourteen years she worked at TucsonMedicalCenter, where she developed and directed an international health partnership that included most of the hospitals in Tucson and equivalent partners in Almaty, Kazakhstan. While at TMC she also served as the Director of Government and Community Relations and Director of Foundation Grants and Community Partnerships.
Her professional career includes being a partner in the law firm of Reed, Goldstein and Jenkins-Reed, where she specialized in health care law, including professional practice and anti-trust issues, and in corporate law and EEOC matters.
Her volunteer work includes serving as the chair of the Juvenile Services Coordinating Council in Tucson, a broad based collaboration of agencies that addresses issues of children impacted by family violence and parental incarceration. She chaired a statewide initiative on the needs of children of incarcerated parents that was part of a national initiative. She served as chair of the Board of Directors of CPSA, as a member of the Governor’s Commission on Domestic Violence, and on the boards of other human service organizations. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of St. Luke’s BehavioralHealthCenter and the ArizonaCollegiateHigh School.
She has family members with behavioral health disorders and that has provided her with an understanding of the needs of persons with mental illness and a passion for ensuring that services are available to them. |