Trillium and Partners Receive 2026 i2i Innovation Awards

Trillium Health Resources and Partners Receive 2026 i2i Innovation Awards

GREENVILLE, N.C. –Trillium Health Resources is proud to receive three Innovation Awards. Announced at the ceremony held during the i2i Center for Integrative Health Winter Conference, Trillium accepted awards in the following categories:

• Person-Driven Initiatives
• Individual and Family Initiatives
• Quality Innovations

Trillium accepted the Person-Driven Initiatives Award with Kerwin Pittman, founder of Recidivism Reduction Educational Program Services (RREPS). The RREPS mission is to break the cycle of incarceration by providing justice-involved and justice-impacted individuals with the tools, resources, and support needed to successfully transition back into society. RREPS focuses on reducing recidivism through comprehensive reentry services, prevention programs, and educational opportunities that empower individuals, strengthen communities, and create safer futures for all.

The Individual and Family Driven Initiatives Award was presented to Trillium and the ADLA, Inc. The King family and ADLA have served as a pillar in their community around Mount Olive, consistently providing services to youth and adults who represent the economically disadvantaged and educationally at risk. In 2025, Trillium provided funding to develop a community opportunity center with ADLA. The community opportunity center will help improve a variety of health and social outcomes.

The final Quality Innovations Award was with Community Care of the Lower Cape Fear for the work completed as part of the NC Healthy Opportunities Pilot. Although the pilot was paused, Community Care of Lower Cape Fear and Trillium helped secure 38,000 healthy meals, 16,000 food boxes, and housing navigation assistance for 1,000 individuals during the active period.

Trillium staff and representatives from each agency accepted the awards at the ceremony held during the i2i Winter Conference. Photos from the event are available on their Facebook page. 

ABOUT TRILLIUM HEALTH RESOURCES

Trillium Health Resources is an innovative health plan for individuals with serious behavioral health, intellectual/developmental disabilities, and traumatic brain injury in 46 counties in North Carolina. Through contracts with NCDHHS, we serve Medicaid members on the Tailored Plan and NC Medicaid Direct, state-funded recipients who are uninsured, and members on the Innovations Waiver. Trillium’s mission is transforming lives and building community well-being through partnership and proven solutions. We take an integrated approach to health and wellbeing, coordinating care across multiple systems to achieve improved health outcomes, quality of care and efficient use of resources. Trillium is dedicated to meeting the unique needs of the individuals and communities we serve, and remains focused on delivering the right services, in the right amount, at the right time.