Bill Coggins, MSW

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Retired Executive Director and Founder, Kaiser Permanente Watts Counseling & Learning Center

Bill Coggins has worked as a psychiatric social worker for the Veterans Administration and the State of California. He also worked as a psychotherapist in private practice in outpatient psychiatric clinics, including the LA Suicide Prevention Center. From 1965 to 1966, Coggins studied and worked as a psychotherapist at Tavistock Psychiatric Clinic in London as a Fulbright Scholar. In November 1966, he was hired to develop the Kaiser Permanente Watts Counseling & Learning Center, a community service program funded by Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Inc. In 1967, the Center opened with Coggins as founding director, with the goal to bring much-needed counseling and educational programs to the Watts community. What began with three people in one room in a prefabricated building has grown to a 30-member staff in a facility of more than 9,000 square feet, now located at the corner of 103rd and Success. Coggins has been a member with the LA’s BEST Advisory Board since 1988.

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