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Trillium Health Resources outlines behavioral‑health coverage for Edgecombe County
Summary
Trillium Health Resources presented an overview of services and enrollment in Edgecombe County, describing the organization’s role in managing care for people with serious behavioral‑health, developmental‑disability and substance‑use needs across 46 counties and encouraging local providers to pursue request‑for‑proposals.
Trillium Health Resources gave an informational presentation to the Edgecombe County Board of Commissioners on June 2, describing services for people with high behavioral‑health and developmental‑disability needs and urging local participation in upcoming provider procurements.
Dave Peterson, senior regional vice president with Trillium, told commissioners Trillium now covers 46 counties after a consolidation and serves a combined population of approximately 3.1 million people. Peterson said Trillium oversees provider networks that deliver services to people with serious mental‑health, developmental‑disability and substance‑use needs and manages a “tailored plan” for the highest‑need members (about 51,000 statewide). He said Trillium also oversees Medicaid direct members (~163,000 statewide) and noted a larger uninsured population in North Carolina (the speaker cited about 287,000 people statewide as uninsured).
Peterson described local activity in Edgecombe County: Trillium reported managing care for about 2,020 Edgecombe County residents and serving 1,758 members in the July–December reporting period shown in the slides. He highlighted crisis‑line availability (24/7) and local programs including Narcan distribution, crisis intervention training with law enforcement, reentry simulations and transition‑to‑employment work for people leaving high‑school programs.
Commissioner and staff commenters emphasized the desire for continued local presence and town hall outreach. Peterson urged county staff and local nonprofit providers to monitor and respond to Trillium request‑for‑proposals (RFPs) and said Trillium plans additional local town halls in the coming fiscal year. He invited commissioners to contact him directly about constituent needs.
The presentation was informational; no formal board action was taken.
