The only HR firm built exclusively for HHS organizations - serving providers across Mecklenburg, Union, Cabarrus, Gaston, and the broader Charlotte Metro region. We find the gaps. We build the systems. We stay until they run.
The Wilkinson Firm is an HR consulting firm built exclusively for behavioral health, IDD, and community health organizations in Charlotte, North Carolina. We design HR infrastructure, compliance systems, retention frameworks, and direct-hire placement specifically for HHS providers regulated by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS), Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Use Services (DMHDDSUS). We work with Charlotte-area providers navigating Tailored Plan transitions, CABHA designation, and the NC-specific clinical supervision requirements that out-of-state firms routinely miss.
Most HR firms work generalist. We work HHS-only. Every system, policy, and placement is designed for behavioral health, IDD, and community health operating reality - not retrofitted from a SaaS or manufacturing playbook.
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS), Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Use Services (DMHDDSUS) rules, Tailored Plans, LME/MCO contracting, and Critical Access Behavioral Health Agency (CABHA) standards, and federal HIPAA / OSHA layered together. We know where the audit risk actually sits in North Carolina, not where a national firm assumes it sits.
We don't deliver a binder and disappear. Every TWF Signature Program™ includes implementation, training, and follow-through until the system is operating without us. PlacementCare™ includes an 18-month placement guarantee.
Your audit risk is not generic. It is North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS), Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Use Services (DMHDDSUS), layered with Tailored Plans, LME/MCO contracting, and Critical Access Behavioral Health Agency (CABHA) standards, layered with federal labor and privacy law. We build HR systems that satisfy every layer.
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Charlotte HR consulting for behavioral health, IDD, and community health organizations.
Charlotte is absorbing two waves at once: North Carolina's Medicaid expansion put coverage in hundreds of thousands of new hands, and the Tailored Plan transition rewired how behavioral health gets paid. Demand jumped. The counselor pool did not. Hover or tap a tile to see how we solve each one.
PlacementCare direct-hire recruiting builds sector-specific pipelines for clinicians and program directors, with an 18-month guarantee because we staff for keeps.
PlacementCare →Retention Reset benchmarks every role against real Charlotte market wages and builds the compensation position you can defend out loud before the resignation letter, not after.
Retention Reset →Compliance Confidence keeps handbooks, credentialing files, and documentation standards current with each plan transition, so the audit finds a system, not a scramble.
Compliance Confidence →Hiring in Charlotte is a numbers game most agencies play blind. This metro employs 3,380 licensed behavioral health counselors and 13,520 direct support workers. Counselor pay runs $59,000, $788 below the Southeast metro average. We recruit and advise against these numbers, not against guesswork.
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Twenty minutes. No pitch. We map your top three workforce risks and tell you what to do about them. If we're a fit, we'll talk engagement. If we're not, you'll leave with a clearer picture either way.
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