Healing Transitions 20th Anniversary Publication

SPECIAL THANKS
“ The work Dr. Bilbro and
his colleagues did on
the task force led to
the creation of a
new department,
Wake County
Human Services...”
We had the privilege of sitting down with Dr. Bob Bilbro
and his wife, Carol, to dig deeper into the why behind
their twenty years of giving. And even though it was more
than 20 years ago, the two shared stories of the early days of
building Healing Transitions like it was yesterday.
“At the time, I was the president of the Wake County Medical Society,
and they asked me to go downtown to speak with the Wake County
Commissioners about their healthcare strategies,” recalled Dr. Bilbro.
“After a few meetings with them, the Commissioners decided to
form a task force to restructure human services in the county. I was
asked to be the chair, and I was as busy as could be with my medical
practice. I couldn’t see myself doing it, but it turned out to be one of
the best things I did.”
The work Dr. Bilbro and his colleagues did on the task force led to
the creation of a new department, Wake County Human Services,
that would oversee all human services in the county. That’s when Dr.
Bilbro met Maria Spaulding, the then Executive Director of the new
department and one of the women who would make up the so-called
“Dynamic Trio” of individuals who founded Healing Transitions.
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