The Healing Place of New Hannover County

Trillium Heath Resources is a local government agency (LME/MCO) that manages mental health, substance use, and intellectual/developmental disability services in twenty-five counties in Eastern North Carolina. As such, they initially teamed with New Hanover County to bring innovative, peer-based, recovery-oriented services to homeless and underserved individuals in eastern North Carolina by selling the County the property to construct a new facility for substance use recovery. Although almost 80,000 individuals in eastern North Carolina have an alcohol or other drug addiction problem, there were (in 2019) zero long-term residential facilities for substance use disorders in the region.
The new facilities alleviate that problem and incorporate long-term recovery principals developed by The Healing Place of Louisville, Kentucky. The Healing Place provides underserved adults who live with alcohol and other drug addictions with a program to restore them to a healthy life through the following offerings on this site:
The facility consists of five single-level buildings gathered around a central, communal courtyard providing services to up to 100 men and 100 women in recovery. The site also offers the opportunity for future expansion should the need become compelling. The five buildings are as follows:
16,863 ft.²
19,999 ft.²
9,388 ft.² for Women
9,248 ft.² for Men
6,289 ft.²
The completed facility was occupied in the winter of 2023.