Chandler Coggins, LCSW, MSW. Chandler is a research manager in the PathLab working across all projects. His interests include enhancing early intervention in psychosis, improving educational and employment outcomes for people with psychiatric disabilities, ending homelessness and poverty, and including and centering people with lived experience in social work practice and research. Chandler most recently worked in the federal government at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), as a public health advisor in the State and Homeless Programs Branch of the Center for Mental Health Services. He is a licensed clinical social worker in North Carolina, where he previously worked as a clinician on an Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team. Early in his mental health recovery, he volunteered for nearly five years as a facilitator of a local National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) peer recovery support group in Florida. Chandler graduated with an MSW from Florida State University and a BA in Religious Studies from Yale University.
