Opportunities open for 18 counties in North Carolina including Warren

Trillium Health Resources has published a request for information (RFI) on their website for school-based therapy services.

These clinicians will offer outpatient therapy for children experiencing mental health issues, intellectual or developmental disabilities, or substance use disorders in each designated school district. They will provide assessments, group and individual therapy, and family supports. Services will be provided to Medicaid members (in NC Medicaid Direct or the Trillium Tailored Plan launching July 1) in Trillium.

Interested agencies will have until June 30, 2024 to respond to the RFI. Agencies must be available to offer services in at least one of the following counties: Guilford, Randolph, Montgomery, Moore, Lee, Hoke, Richmond, Anson, Scotland, Robeson, Sampson, Duplin, Wayne, Lenoir, Greene, Wilson, Edgecombe, and Warren. Providers may apply to provide services in one or more of the counties listed above, but no other counties than those listed are covered with this RFI.

“Trillium recognizes the value of placing clinicians in schools—their proximity to the children allows for more immediate treatment and contact with teachers and families,” stated Joy Futrell, Trillium’s Chief Executive Officer. “Trillium has been listening to stakeholders in our new counties and understands the needs of the schools in our region to support this critical gap.”

School-based mental health services range from assistance provided by a school counselor to a comprehensive, integrated program of prevention, identification, and treatment on campus. Trillium’s focus with this RFI is to build a strong infrastructure to develop a more comprehensive approach within school settings.

Trillium welcomes participation in this important conversation to keep our communities and schools safe. Any organization interested in learning more can reach out to Trillium by calling 1-866-998-2597.

For more information, visit Trilliumhealthresources.org.

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In February 1, 2024, Trillium Health Resources, Eastpointe, and Sandhills Center merged to provide managed care services for serious behavioral health, intellectual/developmental disabilities, and traumatic brain injury. There will be a total of 46 counties in the combined region, with a total population of 3,094,863.

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The final Liberating Series discussion is Saturday, June 11 at the Warren County Memorial Library and focuses on the descendants of the 1921 lynchings.

When the young Plummer Bullock and his older cousin Alfred Williams were lynched in Warren County in 1921, regional newspapers were quick to paint them as violent lawbreakers who were “brought to justice” by a mob of enraged white townspeople. The story that the papers told was both simple and familiar, wholly erasing the humanity of the murdered men while dwelling on the gruesome circumstances of their lynching. And within the flash of a news cycle, their stories had vanished from the public eye. To most white readers, they were just two more Black men killed in what, at the time, was a more-than-weekly happening somewhere in the South.

But in the Black communities of Warren County, the stories of Mr. Bullock’s and Mr. Williams’ murders were wrenchingly real and not easily forgotten. Folks knew Plummer Bullock for his forward-looking vision for Black possibilities in the county; many saw him as a future leader, not unlike his father, Reverend William Bullock. Dozens of local Black couples had been married by his father; even more had been touched by the impassioned eloquence of the reverend’s sermons. And everyone around the town of Norlina knew the outgoing spirit of Alfred Williams, a gregarious and much-liked railroad worker whose home had long been a community meeting-place. Suddenly, both were gone. And their killers were all still free—in many cases, overseeing the paychecks and workplaces of the bereaved kin and neighbors of the murdered men.

The stories of Mr. Bullock and Mr. Williams are but two in the long litany of stories of racial violence in Warren County. At the same time and for the same reason that those two were murdered, sixteen of their neighbors had been imprisoned, consigned to grueling labor on chain gangs and at the state Penitentiary. That’s sixteen more Black families torn apart. And that was only in 1921. The “unexplained” murders of Black men and deaths at the hands of local whites, including police officers, continued for decades thereafter in Warren County. Each act of violence marked another tear in the fabric of the African American community. And each was kept alive in the stories of community members, while the “authorized” sources of local history did their best to erase them from the historical record.

The “Descendants Stories” panel challenges this erasure, by bringing together a group of family members who have kept these stories alive. Members of both the Bullock and Williams families will be joined by descendants of those other 16 men, and of other victims of racial violence in the county. Together, they’ll discuss the ongoing impact of the trauma in their families’ lives, and offer their thoughts about the possibility of reckoning and repair.

PANELISTS:
JAMES ANDREWS
Family of Henry Andrews

REV. DR. MACEO FREEMAN
Family of Alfred Williams

OCTAVIO JONES
Family of Plummer Bullock

DIANA OWENS
Family of Plummer Bullock

SANDRA WILLIAMS
Family of James and Jerome Hunter; also Alfred Williams

MODERATOR:
TAMMY EVANS
Assistant Professor of English, Louisburg College and long-time Warren County resident

The “Liberating Futures” series is a collaborative project of The 1921 Project, the Warren County Branch of the NAACP, the Warren County African American Historical Collective, UNC’s Descendants Project, and UNC’s Humanities for the Public Good Initiative.

This event is free and open to the public.

Cover: A 1874 map of Warren County. (Image provided by the N.C. Collection at UNC)

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