Courses

Advanced Appellate Advocacy

Advanced Appellate Advocacy is an advanced writing workshop for attorneys on the appellate appointment list maintained by the Office of the Appellate Defender. Using their own cases, participants will receive instruction on and will write a persuasive statement of facts and an effective legal argument in their own cases.

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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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Parent Attorney Conference

This course is co-sponsored by the Office of Indigent Defense Services.

The Parent Attorney Conference provides training for attorneys who represent respondents in abuse, neglect, dependency, and termination of parental rights proceedings. Topics will include legislative and case law updates (with advocacy pointers for defenders),...

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Lead Across Boundaries

It is open to both professional and elected officials.

Many, if not most, of the complex issues in the public sector are not neatly contained within the purview of one organization. Just as we have seen with the response to the Hurricane Helene disaster, no one person, organization, or sector has all the ability,...

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Performance Management in Animal Services

This class is part of the Performance Management Course Series. To see the full list of courses offered please click HERE

This course has been approved for Continuing Educational Units by the National Animal Care & Control Association (NACA). National certificate holders can submit for credit consistent with the NACA...

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Child Support Enforcement

This program provides training for attorneys who represent alleged contemnors in child support enforcement proceedings. Sessions will focus on civil contempt, advocacy in-and-out of the courtroom, evidence, and other issues relevant to respondent representation.

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TEXAS National 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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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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There are additional offerings of this course available.

Historic Resilience Project: Resilience Design Standards 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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Legitimation under North Carolina Law

This session will provide an introduction to legitimation – what is it, how is a child is legitimated under North Carolina Law, and why does it matter. The primary focus of the session is to review the provisions of the law and the role of the clerk in these special proceedings. Topics to be addressed include who can file, when and where is the...

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Strategic Planning: Linking Strategies to Results

This class will be held online via Zoom from 9am-1pm.

Effective local government leaders not only deal with the challenges at hand each day, but they also anticipate future challenges – a growing population that needs another school; an aging population that needs a senior center; another farm being subdivided that needs water and sewer...

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One-Day Criminal Law Seminar for Magistrates

This program focuses on criminal law and procedure issues pertinent to magistrates. This course includes sessions on substantive criminal law topics, and case law and legislative updates. This course provides 5.75 hours of continuing education.This course is appropriate for magistrates, with sessions related to criminal law and procedure, legal...

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Raise the Age Workshop

This course will cover the legal requirements of the Juvenile Justice Reinvestment Act, often referred to as “Raise the Age.” Topics will include new requirements for processing offenses alleged to have been committed by juveniles at age 16 and 17 from first encounter with law enforcement through transfer to superior court or juvenile...

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Managing Family Financial Cases for District Court Judges

This North Carolina Judicial College Videoconference Course is intended for judges with experience presiding over family financial cases including equitable distribution, alimony and above guideline child support. The class will begin with a presentation on the fundamental principles of effective individual case management. Participants then...

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Arrest, Search, and Investigation for Superior Court Judges

No area of law has been changing faster than the law of arrest, search, and investigation. Over the past few years, the United States Supreme Court has issued important opinions on drug dogs, traffic stops, and digital evidence. Meanwhile, the news media and the public have begun to focus more closely on the role that race plays in interactions...

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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 Workshops

Overview

The School of Government and partners are excited to launch the Historic Resilience Project, a slate of four inter-related resources: the Historic Resilience Primer, a general introduction for North Carolina communities; the Community Planning Handbook, a guide for community conversations and...

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Top 10 Primer: Use of Social Media for Local Elected Officials

This free course will be held online via Zoom from 10am- 11:15am. Please register ahead of time to access the zoom link.

Does your use of social media change once the campaign is over and you begin to govern? The answer to that question can be complex. Adding to the complexity is the ever-present likelihood that some of your "...

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Single Protective Arrangements and Single Transactions

Do you have questions about single protective arrangements and single transactions under G.S. 35A-1121? Do you want to learn more about how they intersect with—and in some cases replace—the need for a guardian? Have you already dealt with cases involving this new type of relationship authorized by Session Law 2021-53? Then join us for a...