Trillium Health, Peacehaven plan new adult care center in Whitsett

Trillium Health Resources and Peacehaven said Monday they will add Meg’s House to Peacehaven’s 89-acre Whitsett campus, a new adult care center built for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. For Guilford County families, the project points to a closer place for structured day support, essential services and a safer routine than many can assemble now through scattered programs, travel and caregiver patchwork. The center is being folded into a larger Whitsett plan rather than treated as a stand-alone building.

Peacehaven has spent years building toward that campus model. The organization was founded in 2007 to serve adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, then opened Susan’s View in 2014 as its first residential home, welcoming five individuals. Its Whitsett property has been described as nearly 90 acres, and Peacehaven says the full vision includes a multipurpose community center, integrated residential housing, an arts center, outdoor recreation spaces, a multidisciplinary health care clinic for the I/DD population and expanded farming operations.

The new care center also grows out of a partnership Peacehaven and Trillium announced Nov. 24, 2025, aimed at caregiver strain and the isolation experienced by adults with I/DD. That collaboration said it would bring families, self-advocates, care professionals and community partners into the same planning process, a sign that the Whitsett project is meant to reach beyond housing and into daily support, health care access and community connection. Peacehaven’s CEO, Phelps Sprinkle, has been leading that expansion as the nonprofit pushes its mission outward into the broader community.

The scale of need behind the project is also part of the story. In 2024, Peacehaven said 70 percent of North Carolina residents with I/DD live in isolation and 80 percent are not employed, figures that have helped fuel support for more inclusive housing, work and care options. Peacehaven has also said Trillium’s backing makes financial sense because the partnership could reduce mental health services used by residents and customers. In Whitsett, Meg’s House now joins a campus plan that is trying to turn that need into permanent local capacity.