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Juvenile Capacity to Proceed

This one-day, in-person class will provide detailed instruction on the new standard and procedures for juvenile determinations of capacity to proceed. Session Law 2023-114 established a new legal standard that governs whether a juvenile has capacity to proceed in a delinquency matter and created new procedures regarding capacity determination...

There are additional offerings of this course available.

Webinar - Policing Special Events: How to Prevent a New Orleans Style Tragedy

The NC Association of Chiefs of Police, along with the UNC School of Government and the North Carolina Judicial College, are presenting a webinar entitled Policing Special Events: How to Prevent a New Orleans Style Tragedy.

This webinar will feature a panel of experienced law enforcement leaders talking about the unique threats and...

There are additional offerings of this course available.

The Clerk's Initial Estate Intake

The Clerk's Initial Estate Intake

This session will cover topics that frequently arise at the outset of the administration of an estate, including legal information vs. legal advice, determining questions related to venue, confirmation of date and fact of death, determining whether there is a will, decedent’s family history, and opening and inventorying safe deposit boxes.

There are additional offerings of this course available.

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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Advanced Juvenile Delinquency Training

Advanced Juvenile Delinquency Training

This course, which will be held in Morganton, will focus on serious and violent offenders in the juvenile justice system. It will include a visit to Western Youth Institution, the Department of Correction Facility that houses the youngest inmates in the adult system, including those whose cases were transferred from juvenile court. Factors...

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Strategic Planning Framework for Public Organizations

Strategic Planning Framework for Public Organizations

Atlantic Beach, NCJuly 12, 20221:00 PM- 5:00 PM Strategic planning is one of the most effective tools in local government to improve organizational performance and sustainability. Strategic plans help public managers develop a detailed course of action to take an organization from its current state to the desired future state while ensuring its...

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Resolving Public Disputes: Workshop II

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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National Certified Government Chief Information Officer (CGCIO)

National Certified Government Chief Information Officer (CGCIO)

After 20 successful years of offering the Certified Government Chief Information Officers’ (CGCIO) program to elevate IT leadership across NC and beyond, we are taking a pause to review the curriculum, upgrade the content, and assess the various ways we can most effectively deliver the CGCIO program to IT leaders. We anticipate the...

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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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Fiduciary Responsibilities of Local Elected Officials

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....

There are additional offerings of this course available.

Water and Wastewater Finance Strategies Workshop

This course offered by the UNC School of Government's Environmental Finance Center provides a comprehensive overview of financial and legal considerations for water and wastewater utilities. Participants will explore legal structures and financing tools such as user fees, system development fees, availability fees,...

There are additional offerings of this course available.

Civil Contempt in Proceedings Before the Clerk

Civil Contempt in Proceedings Before the Clerk

During this session, we will discuss the different types of contempt (civil and criminal). We will then focus our discussion on civil contempt in proceedings before the clerk. We will review, in particular, the procedure applicable to compelling inventories and accounts in estates, trusts, and guardianship proceedings, and the use of civil...

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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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Essentials for Local Government Managers

Essentials for Local Government Managers

This program is geared toward local government managers who are new to North Carolina or to the profession or to assistant managers and other upper-level local government managers who are interested in becoming city or county managers in the future. The program will give participants a broad set of training on managing local governments in...

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Post-Conviction Proceedings for Superior Court Judges

This course is designed to help judges effectively rule on issues that arise after conviction in a criminal case. It is a small-group, skills-based training in which judges will actively participate. Coverage includes: Procedural issues related to motions for appropriate relief; substantive claims such as ineffective assistance of counsel 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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Social Media for Social Good

Social Media for Social Good

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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Compensated Absences Webinar

GASB Statement No. 101, Compensated Absences, will be implemented by North Carolina governments for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025. While this may seem to be in the distant future, governments need to begin compiling information and beginning balances by July 1, 2024. This webinar will provide participants with the following:

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Special Topic for Prosecutors

Special Topic for Prosecutors will be held April 22-23, 2025, at the School of Government in Chapel Hill, sponsored by the North Carolina Judicial College. On the first day of this course, participants will attend lectures on evidence issues relevant to prosecutors: capacity to proceed, digital evidence, and character evidence, among others. On...

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Appointment of the Personal Representative

Appointment of the Personal Representative

This session will cover the process for the appointment of a personal representative in both testate and intestate estates.

There are additional offerings of this course available.

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