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Leech told the board the teams review medical examiner reports, police reports, child welfare files and other community reports to identify service gaps and recommend prevention measures. She said North Carolina General Statute §7B-1406 requires review of all child fatalities regardless of prior involvement with social services.

For cases reviewed that stemmed from calendar-year 2023, the team found five fatalities in which the child had been involved with the Department of Social Services; the team also reviewed an additional 45 cases not otherwise involved with DSS, Leech said. In the five child-welfare-related fatalities, Leech reported there was one teen death, two infant deaths and two homicides. Across the wider set of reviewed cases, she listed common factors including unsafe sleep practices, prenatal or medical complications, traffic accidents, suicide, drowning and deaths associated with overheating in vehicles. Leech also cited parental and youth opioid use as an ongoing challenge.

Leech said Child Protective Services social workers assessed 1,777 reports of child abuse, neglect and dependency in Onslow County during 2024 (cases reported in 2024 were the subject of many of the review discussions). She identified two recurring barriers to protecting children: timely access to medical and mental-health services and difficulties obtaining medical records from military health providers.

The team described prevention and community efforts already underway: distribution of pack-and-play cribs and car seats through community partners, safe-sleep education (including a focus on hazardous locations such as recliners), car-seat installation trainings, tracking of mental-health referrals and follow-up, and a plan-of-care process when infants are born substance-affected. Leech noted that the county’s Consolidated Human Services building displays blue pinwheels in April to mark Child Abuse Prevention Month.

Leech closed by saying the teams attend state trainings, participate in community outreach events, and work with law enforcement on child-death reenactments as part of broader prevention efforts. She invited questions; none were asked on the record.

Ending: The report documented causes and community responses, and identified access to timely medical/mental-health care and military medical-record access as persistent barriers the teams will continue to address.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Onslow County Board of Commissioners' Meeting","oneSentenceSummary","Tondria Leech, Social Work Program Manager with the Onslow County Department of Social Services, presented the annual report of the Community Child Protection Team and Child Fatality Prevention Team on April 7, describing the teams’ case reviews, findings and prevention work.","taxTitle","Onslow County, North Carolina","taxId",4261,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6612584,"Onslow County approves refunding resolution to buy property for sheriff's operations on New Bern Highway",71,3283000,3354000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2890872-1d54962706523e9e0af614e2965f04b2&start=3283&end=3354","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2890872-1d54962706523e9e0af614e2965f04b2/thumbnail_3283000.jpg","/articles/6612584/Onslow-County/North-Carolina/Onslow-County-approves-refunding-resolution-to-buy-property-for-sheriffs-operations-on-New-Bern-Highway","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6612584-53cc19506fe7270fa9732e3f9e70e737/orig.mp4?Expires=1775444379&Signature=AmfCEnxpT3YMFo3sPUgrSXLZzPUXDdHQkck2YVTEPfbTU-1-ifp0bMJdi2DBlTw4QYqH79gCQfIXqDJgjfWQIvTwaucFMKwomO8xGf8Mt6mqZe0G6UndRgZ2OgdgowNrQyRklaapBKkRjzvAgm15dueq4Z-yby7p~mcqR09Ki8Joo7Jl-8zxDuqxdiR2hrZYKtdBHiIsvq8xfFRwOW0XLagJ30hs5rHoSig70lEWGB6XtxQqBG~bNKN8QKeVwqSQSJhm4sXk5-9wnwArpaFL7oBNcMGtkjfKfkI5uihEReMdAwoRSqBvyliHmEzdaedU-LUkeSCYPfvBruwRebmaTw__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Onslow County Board of Commissioners voted to approve a refunding resolution to finance the county's planned purchase of property intended for the Sheriff’s Office on New Bern Highway.

County staff presented the refunding application at the April 7 meeting, describing a purchase price of $4,500,000 that was “grossed up” to $6,000,000 to allow for renovations needed to convert the property for the sheriff’s use. The presenter said the financing would be bundled into a debt service sale scheduled for July and combined with financing for the multipurpose center and a Bear Creek project. The presenter also said the county expects to structure the sale as a short-term (three-year) issue rather than a 20-year issue.

The board moved, seconded and approved the resolution by voice vote; when asked, commissioners signified “aye,” and the chair said, “motion carries.” No roll-call tally or individual recorded votes were given in the meeting minutes.

The board did not provide a detailed financing schedule, interest estimates, or a named closing date at the meeting. County staff described the $6,000,000 figure as an amount to “allow for any renovation” but did not enumerate specific renovation tasks or separate project budgets during the public presentation.

Commissioners did not discuss alternative sites or operating plans for the sheriff’s functions during the motion. The resolution authorizes the county to proceed with the planned debt issuance to acquire and prepare the property for sheriff’s operations.

The board moved on to other business after the vote; no further follow-up discussion of the property acquisition was held on the record during the meeting.

Ending: County staff indicated the debt sale is scheduled for July; the board did not provide additional public details at the April 7 meeting about project budgets, debt service impacts on future budgets, or operational timelines for moving sheriff functions into the acquired property.","The Onslow County Board of Commissioners approved a refunding resolution to finance the county's planned purchase of property for the Sheriff’s Office on New Bern Highway; the purchase price was stated as $4.5 million, grossed to $6 million to cover renovations, and the debt sale will be bundled with other projects and scheduled for July.",{"_33":88,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":89,"_41":90,"_43":91,"_45":92,"_47":93,"_49":94,"_51":95,"_53":96,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":97,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":98,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6612574,"Trillium Health Resources outlines behavioral-health reach, tailored-plan transition and local projects in Onslow County",920,2076000,2996000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2890872-1d54962706523e9e0af614e2965f04b2&start=2076&end=2996","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2890872-1d54962706523e9e0af614e2965f04b2/thumbnail_2076000.jpg","/articles/6612574/Onslow-County/North-Carolina/Trillium-Health-Resources-outlines-behavioral-health-reach-tailored-plan-transition-and-local-projects-in-Onslow-County","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6612574-705372eb1a433b1459dbaad38fcef0eb/orig.mp4?Expires=1775444379&Signature=jjdAyEyYzkdpCtDxr1iMLZN6xVJcCdF9NtjrVe~x13baS-8J-k5AS~RamL1U56rP5CYg-hTt7HKe7L6cSqsbsWA9SLbjg57QVH5QwSa2HXU3~tA~JUux2iAn~2Jo246PdvtNbw-ot9G4U2jDX0v3~eO16589B2ZoWqVgyrf~cpz56QS8UhmPlK3lEbqEW~cRLJ7ByzUZbTUQ39fRMd2D5HwkqURJmmybJYRM4LJLZiEHYue~VJ-jiXriH0A0f3YleXgLv0M3xo8BtPSYi5ZWChncTDZwsgTVAC7MuvI-FqMcyP-bpyL0673lvm~vGSl6cmqwyhw0xi5S46JJVzgZHQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Victoria Jackson, regional vice president for Trillium Health Resources, delivered the organization's annual report to the Onslow County Board of Commissioners on April 7, describing who Trillium serves locally, data from mid-2024, and ongoing projects in the county.

Jackson said Trillium is “one of four LME-MCOs in the state of North Carolina” that manages care for individuals with severe behavioral-health needs and that the organization covers a 46-county region. She told commissioners that, across Trillium’s service area, the organization served a little over 80,000 unique individuals from July to December 2024, with unduplicated counts of roughly 57,388 receiving mental-health services, 15,583 receiving substance-use services and 18,537 receiving intellectual and developmental disability services. For Onslow County specifically, Jackson said Trillium served 4,579 members during that period.

Jackson described the July 1 launch of the Medicaid “tailored plan,” which moved Trillium onto a model that includes some physical-health benefits in addition to behavioral health for the populations Trillium serves. She said the tailored plan expansion led to implementation challenges — notably a large increase in call volume, the need to work more closely with transportation vendor Motive Care, and the importance of provider-flexibility measures to avoid service interruptions during the transition.

Jackson also described several local projects and pilots: substance-use prevention programming in schools, distribution of naloxone kits to community organizations, a free recovery-support app (CHES) with peer supports, regional “community opportunity centers” to address social determinants of health (still in early stages), small-business funding to support members seeking employment or entrepreneurship, and a technology pilot called Tula (Trillium Ultimate Living Assistant) to support independence for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through enabling devices and remote supports.

Jackson said Trillium is preparing for a future foster-care specialty plan (phase 3 of Medicaid transformation), noting that Healthy Blue (Blue Cross Blue Shield/Healthy Blue) was announced by the state to manage the foster-care specialty plan beginning Dec. 1 and that Trillium and its partners are working on the transition.

Jackson closed by providing contact information for member services and a 24/7 behavioral-health crisis line; no commissioners requested further details during the meeting.

Ending: Trillium emphasized local membership counts, implementation lessons from the tailored-plan launch, and several county-focused projects intended to address substance use, recovery supports, transportation and technology-enabled independent living.","Trillium Health Resources presented an annual update to Onslow County commissioners detailing services under the Medicaid-tailored plan, local membership counts, implementation lessons, and pilot projects including naloxone distribution, community opportunity centers and a technology pilot called Tula.","actionData","errors"]

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Onslow County child fatality review team reports five child fatalities linked to varied causes and highlights prevention efforts

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Trillium Health Resources outlines behavioral-health reach, tailored-plan transition and local projects in Onslow County