Courses

Felony Defender Training

This course is co-sponsored by the UNC School of Government and the Office of Indigent Defense Services.

Topics will include discovery and investigation, suppression and other superior court motions, lab reports, preserving the record, sentencing, and trial skills—including conducting voir dire—necessary to handle felony cases from start...

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Cash Management and Investment of Public Funds

This course is held annually in the Summer and is one of the core courses for the finance officers' certification program. Participants will learn about goals, process and organizations for successful cash management; how to evaluate banking services and financial institutions; investment strategies; investment policies; and accounting and...

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Public Law for the Public's Lawyers On-Demand Videos

I will lead the planning for a fall 2020 offering of Public Law for the Public’s Lawyers (PLPL), in place of Professor Aimee Wall, who has taken on a greater administrative role at the School of Government. We appreciate our legislative and state agency partners who help plan and make this course possible.

This course is sponsored by the...

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Will they stay or will they go? Recruitment and Retention Strategies and Patterns in NC

The worker shortage in U.S. local government is at a crisis level, incurring significant impacts on public service delivery and producing high levels of burnout among city and county employees. Accordingly, this session will report local government survey data on recruitment and retention patterns in North Carolina, where local governments are...

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Using Social Workers as Part of a Holistic Public Defense Practice

This one-and-a-half-day workshop is a partnership between the UNC School of Government Criminal Justice Innovation Lab and the Office of Indigent Defense Services. It will focus on integrating social workers into public defender offices as part of a holistic defense practice. Sessions will address, among other topics, an overview of holistic...

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Cultivate Great Workplace Culture

This course will take place in person at the School of Government from 9am - 4pm.

Shaping organizational culture and aligning it to your organizations’ strategy is a huge leadership challenge and an important leadership skill. Understanding what culture is and what needs to be changed are key diagnostic abilities. This workshop will...

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Fiduciary Responsibilities of Local Elected Officials

This course will be held online April 2, 2025 via Zoom from 1:00-4:00 p.m.

Local elected officials are stewards of the public trust. They are responsible for guiding multi-million dollar county and municipal corporations that depend on numerous sources of revenues and that have multiple layers of policy and management responsibilities....

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Resolving Public Disputes: Workshop II

Workshop II: Collaboration and Tools for Handling Contentious Stakeholder Groups

This workshop is part two of a three-course sequence to improve individual negotiation skills and responses to conflict and to strengthen group facilitation, collaboration, and problem-solving abilities. This workshop examines the conditions for effective...

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US Supreme Court Seminar for District Court and Superior Court Judges

This seminar offers a small group of district court and superior court judges the opportunity to travel to Washington, D.C. to visit the institution at the fore of the nation’s judicial system: the United States Supreme Court. Participants will hear oral arguments at the court, and some will have an opportunity to be sworn in to the Supreme...

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Introduction to Program Evaluation

This online workshop is for local governments, providing a broad overview of program evaluation facilitated by the School of Government's Dr. Maureen Berner. This course is a primer on evaluating proposed and existing programs for local governments and discerning their efficacy and viability within a community.

Note: This course fulfills...

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Legislative Changes Impacting Aging and Adult Services, including Adult Guardianship and Adult Protective Services

This webinar will cover changes affecting the area of aging and adult services from the 2025-2026 legislative session of the North Carolina General Assembly, including changes to the area of adult guardianship and adult protective services law.

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Dispositions in A/N/D Court: Structuring Court Ordered Plans

This course focuses on dispositional orders that are entered in an abuse, neglect, or dependency action for respondent parents. The objectives are for judges to understand the respondents’ experiences in meeting expectations and learn how to enter orders that are designed to allow a parent to succeed so that reunification is more likely to be...

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Social Media for Social Good

Kara Millonzi is the faculty lead for the new program Lead for North Carolina.

If you are a local government professional who is actively managing social media accounts on behalf of your local government, this program is for you. As a government organization, how do you establish and grow your social media presence with an eye toward efficiency and effectiveness? How can you use Facebook, Instagram, and other platforms to...

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Incompetency and Adult Guardianship Proceedings for Clerks

This course is offered through the North Carolina Judicial College. The course is intended for both clerks and assistant clerks of superior court and will cover issues that arise with incompetency and guardianship hearings. Topics will include the use of limited guardianship, legal representation of the respondent, procedural and...

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Advanced Sentencing: Probation

There are over 80,000 people on probation in North Carolina. As a result, probationary sentences and probation violations are a big part of the daily work of the state court system. This one-day program is designed to help judges manage that workload by crafting probationary sentences that are lawful and effective in achieving...

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Performance Measurement in Local Government

This one-day workshop helps public officials design measures in local government for accountability and results. The workshop introduces the types of performance measures commonly found in local government, how to develop good measures from goals and objectives, and how they can be used to support other management processes.

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Contract Management in Local Government

This course will address the management, networking, and legal aspects of contracting for North Carolina local governments. We will review several topics to...

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Correctional Facilities Tour - East

This program is designed to give court officials a better understanding of how their judgments are administered by the Division of Adult Correction. Participants tour correctional facilities in eastern North Carolina gaining a firsthand view of the typical places to which they sentence criminal defendants. Each stop includes time for relevant...

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Historic Resilience Project: Historic Resilience Planning Workshop

North Carolina’s historic properties are facing historic floods. Communities across the state must coordinate across departments and perspectives to bring resilience to our historic districts. For the last year or so, we’ve had the privilege to work alongside colleagues from the NCSU College of Design, UNC, and more on the Historic Resilience...

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LGFCU Fellows Alumni Workshop

The Alumni Workshop will be held at the Sheraton in Chapel Hill, October 26–27, with a reception on the 26 at the Story Venue on Franklin Street. We will have a chance to talk briefly about the emerging issue of AI and how it might impact local governments, as well as work with national communication trainers to gain new skills to add to our...