The only HR firm built exclusively for HHS organizations - serving providers across Chatham, DeKalb, Cobb, Gwinnett, and the broader Metro Savannah 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 Savannah, Georgia. We design HR infrastructure, compliance systems, retention frameworks, and direct-hire placement specifically for HHS providers regulated by the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD). We sit in your time zone, know the DBHDD provider manual cold, and have placed clinical and operational hires across the I-285 perimeter and the OTP suburbs.
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.
Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD) rules, Department of Community Health (DCH) and Georgia Families Medicaid CMOs, and federal HIPAA / OSHA layered together. We know where the audit risk actually sits in Georgia, 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 Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD), layered with Department of Community Health (DCH) and Georgia Families Medicaid CMOs, layered with federal labor and privacy law. We build HR systems that satisfy every layer.
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Same firm. Same operating standard. Same Savannah-quality work, in your market.
Savannah has the tightest counselor market of any major Southeast metro: roughly 460 licensed behavioral health counselors for a fast-growing coastal economy. The port and the tourism industry bid for the same support labor, and every clinical vacancy stays open longest here. Hover or tap a tile to see how we solve each one.
PlacementCare runs relationship-driven search with a maintained regional bench, plus relocation positioning that sells the coast to out-of-market clinicians.
PlacementCare →Talent Magnet builds the counter-offer: career pathways, credential support, and schedule respect, priced against both industries' real local wages, which we publish.
Talent Magnet →Compliance Confidence systematizes the files, calendars, and screening so compliance survives vacations, turnover, and growth.
Compliance Confidence →Hiring in Savannah is a numbers game most agencies play blind. This metro employs 460 licensed behavioral health counselors and 1,760 direct support workers. Counselor pay runs $58,060, $1,728 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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