The only HR firm built exclusively for HHS organizations - serving providers across Orleans, Union, Cabarrus, Gaston, and the broader New Orleans Metro 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 New Orleans, Louisiana. We design HR infrastructure, compliance systems, retention frameworks, and direct-hire placement specifically for HHS providers regulated by the Louisiana Department of Health and Human Services (LDH), Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Use Services (DMHDDSUS). We work with New Orleans-area providers navigating Healthy Louisiana plan transitions, CABHA designation, and the NC-specific clinical supervision requirements that out-of-state firms routinely miss.
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.
Louisiana Department of Health and Human Services (LDH), Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Use Services (DMHDDSUS) rules, Healthy Louisiana plans, Local Governing Entity contracting, and Critical Access Behavioral Health Agency (CABHA) standards, and federal HIPAA / OSHA layered together. We know where the audit risk actually sits in Louisiana, 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 Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) Health Standards licensing, layered with Healthy Louisiana MCO credentialing, Office of Behavioral Health requirements, and OCDD waiver standards, layered with federal labor and privacy law. We build HR systems that satisfy every layer.
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New Orleans HR consulting for behavioral health, IDD, and community health organizations.
New Orleans providers deliver some of the highest-acuity community care in the South while competing with the hospitality economy for every support-level worker. LDH licensing, Healthy Louisiana MCOs, and the Local Governing Entity structure define the rules; the labor market defines the struggle. Hover or tap a tile to see how we solve each one.
Talent Magnet builds the counter-offer: stability, advancement, credential pathways, and schedule respect, priced against real New Orleans wage data for both industries.
Talent Magnet →Retention Reset treats burnout structurally: caseload design, supervision cadence, and stay systems that catch people before the letter.
Retention Reset →Compliance Confidence builds continuity into the compliance layer: cross-trained coverage, current files, and documentation that stands up whenever the review comes.
Compliance Confidence →Hiring in New Orleans is a numbers game most agencies play blind. This metro employs 1,580 licensed behavioral health counselors and 6,600 direct support workers. Counselor pay runs $47,150, $12,638 below 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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