Our Team

JEffrey Grobe, CTF Executive Director

Jeffrey Grobe serves as Coyote TaskForce's Executive Director. Jeff has worked in the community mental health field for the past fifteen years, most recently as clinical supervisor and project director for La Frontera Center's employment and federal grant-funded homelessness services program. In addition to his work for Coyote TaskForce, Jeff teaches in Arizona State University’s Tucson-based Master’s of Social Work program and is a program surveyor for CARF International, consulting for community service organizations across the U.S. and Canada. In his work, Jeff has been a staunch advocate for the power of peer support services and the value of employment in supporting recovery, and brings with him a belief that recovery from mental illness is absolutely possible and that recovery is best supported through the power of community. Jeff has a BA in Psychology and an MSW from ASU's School of Social Work.

Jeff was selected as the new Executive Director by the Coyote TaskForce Board of Directors, replacing CTF founder Mindy Bernstein, who retired in December 2019.

CTF'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Lenny Teiber, Friederich Law, President

Gina Rossi, Secretary

Lori Green, Treasurer

Laura Von Drehle, Clubhouse Member

Mindy Bernstein, Executive Director 1992—2019

Mindy was the Executive Director of Coyote TaskForce for twenty-seven years, and was responsible for conceptualizing and opening nationally awarded Café 54 in 2004. Mindy has long been a vocal advocate in the community, focusing on reducing the stigma of mental illness and the responsibility of the Tucson community to provide employment and supports to assist citizens diagnosed with severe mental illness. Mindy has worked in the non-profit sector for over forty years, and her work history includes working with special education students, adjudicated teens, youth in crisis shelters, victims of domestic violence, children, youth, and adults with developmental disabilities, in addition to adults with serious mental illness. Mindy holds a B.S. in Rehabilitation Counseling and an M.S. in Rehabilitation Counseling and Vocational Evaluation from the University of Arizona.