Courses

Navigate Difficult Conversations

Navigating difficult conversations is a core leadership skill. Healthy conflict gives us an opportunity to express our ideas and learn more about others’ perspectives so we can come up with solutions that last. Working through conflict can make us stronger, more resilient, and more accepting. This one-day course will help you find the...

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Performance Management in Emergency Communications

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

This course focuses on converting performance information into decisions that enhance organizational outcomes of emergency communication services. We will review performance management...

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Juvenile Delinquency

This course is intended for District Court Judges who are relatively new to juvenile court, but could also serve as refreshers for judges with substantial experience in juvenile court. The topics that will be covered include Subchapter II of the Juvenile Code--from pre-petition to post-disposition stages in delinquency cases. The course also...

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From Pandemic to Protests: Crisis Communications Skills for Local Elected Officials

Facing the news media or an angry public can be nerve-racking even under the best of circumstances. In today’s governing environment, local governments are dealing with multiple crises, from COVID-19 and its economic fall-out to social tensions and political unrest. Citizens want and deserve information about how these situations are being...

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Spring Public Defender Attorney Conference

This course is co-sponsored by the Office of Indigent Defense Services, and co-sponsored by NC Association of Public Defenders.

The Spring Public Defender Attorney Conference provides training on current topics of interest to public defender attorneys and investigators. This year’s conference topics include emerging Fourth Amendment...

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Mental Health Issues in Juvenile Law

This multiday course includes instruction on common mental health needs among youth, the structure and function of the mental health system, mental health assessments and treatment, capacity to proceed, involuntary commitment, and the connection between child welfare and delinquency proceedings and mental health from the beginning to the end of...

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Decision

More information about the course coming soon.

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LELA 201: Top 10 Primer on Land Use, Planning, and Zoning for Local Elected Officials

This is a free online course from 10–11:15 am.

As a local elected official, you are called on to make a lot of hard decisions. Some of those decisions are about land use planning and zoning, either of which can greatly affect your community’s quality of life. This part of your role in governing can engender a great deal of public input...

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Regional Board Workshop

The School of Government is hitting the road. In April and May, we will be in regional locations across the state to lead half-day workshops on legislative zoning decisions (rezoning, conditional zoning, zoning text amendments). These workshops will focus on the procedures and considerations for legislative land use decisions. The target...

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Public Executive Leadership Academy

Public Executive Leadership Academy (PELA) program is our premier leadership experience for government professionals from the School of Government. This year we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Public Executive Leadership Academy, two decades of excellence in leadership.

The application will close May 24, 2024.
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Chief District Court Judges Leadership Training

These courses are offered through the North Carolina Judicial College. They are designed to develop the leadership skills chief district court judges need in their administrative and supervisory roles. Each year we will offer a course on a particular aspect of leadership, such as communication, team building, strategic planning, case management...

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American Rescue Plan Act Fiscal Recovery Funds: Preparing for April 30 and Beyond

NOTICE: THE APRIL 19TH OFFERING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

American Rescue Plan Act Fiscal Recovery Funds: Preparing for April 30 and Beyond

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Judicial Waiver of Parental Consent - The Clerk's Role

This session will focus on the proceeding for a judicial waiver of parental consent for abortion and what the clerk’s role is. Learn about what the clerks must do from the moment an unemancipated minor approaches the clerk’s office to seek assistance with a judicial waiver through the judge’s order. A general explanation of the process will be...

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Develop Personal Resiliency: Calming in Critical Moments

This course will be held in-person at the UNC School of Government from 9 a.m.–4 p.m. No pre-work assignments are required, but we will include optional self-paced follow-up coursework to help you dive deeper into select resiliency principles.

Working in government was difficult before the pandemic...

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Intensive Parent Defender Training

This training will focus on parent representation at each stage of a juvenile abuse, neglect, and dependency proceeding, from reviewing and challenging pleadings, all the way through permanency. Sessions will include an overview of juvenile proceedings, strategies for improving representation in the first days of a case and in later stages of a...

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Working with Advisory Boards and Committees

This course is open to local government professionals and elected officials. Elected officials will receive a LELA 201-course credit.

One of the most common and substantive ways citizen participation in local government occurs is through service on appointed advisory boards (CABs) (also sometimes called committees, commissions or task...

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Solutions Forum: Grappling with Growth

How do North Carolina communities plan for growth? How are we doing annexation now? Who has figured out the missing middle? What are the zoning changes we need? And what are the prospects of actual transit-oriented development? If your community is grappling with these questions of growth, then gather a crew and join us at the Solutions Forum...

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LELA 201: Bridging Divides: Techniques for Productive Governing

This course has been canceled.

Elected officials today must navigate a host of diverse political perspectives when confronting challenges in their communities. To foster productive conversations and create policy solutions to local issues, they must learn to find commonalities amongst differences of opinion with their neighbors, build a...

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Annual Contractor and Assigned Counsel Training

The Annual Contractor and Assigned Counsel Training focuses on topics of interest to criminal law practitioners. This year’s training includes sessions on the topics of gangs, cybersecurity (satisfies technology requirement), capacity, and involuntary commitment. It also includes a criminal case law update and a special address by Chief Justice...

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What Life is Like in Delinquency Out-of-Home Settings

These one-day courses are offered by the North Carolina Judicial College. Each course will provide District Court Judges the opportunity to visit out-of-home settings used in delinquency matters. Due to the nature of the program, each tour date will be limited to five judges. Please apply to the tour location closest to your district, if...