The only HR firm built exclusively for HHS organizations - serving providers across Wake, Durham, Orange, and the broader Triangle 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 Raleigh, 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). Triangle providers face Alliance Health Tailored Plan requirements that differ from the rest of the state. We help Raleigh and Durham providers build credentialing and HR systems that pass on the first review.
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 (Alliance Health for the Triangle), 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 (Alliance Health for the Triangle), 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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Raleigh HR consulting for behavioral health, IDD, and community health organizations.
Wake County adds people faster than the region adds clinicians, and the Research Triangle sets the wage ceiling for every administrative and support role you hire. Raleigh providers compete with tech money for the back office and with hospital systems for the clinical floor. Hover or tap a tile to see how we solve each one.
Foundation First builds the roles, career ladders, and onboarding systems that let mission-driven employers win talent that money alone would take.
Foundation First →Talent Magnet builds recruiting pipelines into the UNC and NC State feeder programs and an employer brand that reaches clinicians before they hit the open market.
Talent Magnet →Compliance Confidence unifies the personnel file standard across every site so one surveyor pull looks the same in every county.
Compliance Confidence →Hiring in Raleigh is a numbers game most agencies play blind. This metro employs 1,400 licensed behavioral health counselors and 6,970 direct support workers. Counselor pay runs $65,090, $5,302 above 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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