Healthy Opportunities Pilot Advocacy

The Healthy Opportunities Pilots (HOP) is the nation’s first comprehensive program to test and evaluate the impact of providing select evidence-based, non-medical interventions related to housing, food, transportation and interpersonal safety and toxic stress to high-needs Medicaid enrollees.

Since launching in 2022, the HOP program has been successful at saving money, improving the health of members, and improving the economic healthy of local communities. However, right now, lawmakers in Raleigh are working on the state budget, but they’ve left funding for HOP out of the budget. As a community, we need to come together and let lawmakers hear our voices so they know how important HOP is and that it needs to be included in the budget.

Call Your State Representative Today

  • Provide your name and full address to ensure your call is tallied.
  • Share the services you receive through HOP
  • Detail what it would mean to you if HOP isn’t funded
  • Request that they fully fund HOP in this year’s state budget

Your Voice Matters

Cape Fear Pilot Representatives

Bladen County

  • Representative William D. Brisson
    • (919) 733-5772
  • Senator Brent Jackson
    • (919) 733-5705

Brunswick County

  • Representative Frank Iler – District 17
    • (919) 301-1450
  • Representative Charles W. Miller – District 19
    • (919) 733-5830
  • Senator Bill Rabon
    • (919) 733-5963

Columbus County

  • Representative Brenden H. Jones
    • 919-733-5821
  • Senator Bill Rabon
    • (919) 733-5963

New Hanover County

  • Representative Deb Butler – District 18
    • 919-733-5754
  • Representative Ted Davis, Jr. – District 20
    • 919-733-5786
  • Representative Charles W. Miller – District 19
    • 919-733-5830
  • Senator Michael V. Lee – District 7
    • (919) 715-2525
  • Senator Bill Rabon – District 8
    • (919) 733-5963

Pender

  • Representative Carson Smith
    • 919-715-9664
  • Senator Brent Jackson
    • (919) 733-5705

Tar River Pilot Representatives

Edgecombe County

  • Representative Shelly Willingham
    • 252-442-8659
  • Senator Kandie D. Smith
    • (919) 715-8363

Greene County

  • Representative Chris Humphrey
    • 919-733-5995
  • Senator Buck Newton
    • (919) 733-5878

Halifax County

  • Representative Rodney D. Pierce
    • 919-733-5662
  • Senator Norman W. Sanderson
    • (919) 733-5706

Northampton County

  • Representative Rodney D. Pierce
    • 919-733-5662
  • Senator Bobby Hanig
    • (919) 715-8293

Pitt County

  • Representative Gloristine Brown – District 8
    • 919-715-3023
  • Representative Timothy Reeder, MD – District 9
    • 919-733-5757
  • Senator Kandie D. Smith
    • (919) 715-8363
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