Courses

2025 Summer Criminal Law Webinar

The 2025 Summer Criminal Law Webinar will cover recent criminal law decisions issued by the North Carolina appellate courts and highlight significant criminal law legislation enacted by the North Carolina General Assembly. School of Government faculty Phil Dixon and Daniel Spiegel will discuss a wide range of issues affecting felony and...

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Performance Management in Elections Administration

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

This course will take place online via Zoom from 1pm - 5pm and will include around 4 hours...

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Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC)

This half-day, online class will address the law and regulations that apply to interstate issues related to the placement of juveniles in out-of-state foster and/or preadoptive homes when an out-of-home placement arises in an abuse, neglect, or dependency case. Topics include when the ICPC applies, how the ICPC process works, challenges with...

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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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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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Fundamental Supervisory Practices: Tier One Counties

This offering of Fundamental Supervisory Practices is sponsored by the Golden LEAF Foundation. Enrollment is reserved for Participants from Qualifying Counties.

Thanks to generous support from the Golden LEAF Foundation, this session of Fundamental Supervisory Practices is offered specifically for participants from local governments...

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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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2024 New Clerks Institute On Demand

This is a one-day On Demand crash course on subjects vital to the work of clerks to municipal and county governing boards.
Topics covered include the open meetings law, the public records law, meeting agendas and minutes, public notices, oaths of office, and board procedure fundamentals.

Agenda is located on the "Materials"...

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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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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.

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LELA 201: Social Media Strategies and Best Practices

This course will be offered online via Zoom on September 21, 2023 from 9:00am-12:00pm.

As an elected official, does your social media presence reflect what you value? Does it deliver the message you want to the people you want to reach?

This on-line class will familiarize you with the variety of different social media platforms and...

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Top 10 Primer: Worker Recruitment and Retention in Local Government

This webinar will cover ten evidence-based tactics local governments can use to attract and retain the best employees. The tactics are based on workplace climate data from the School of Government Local Government Workplaces Initiative and the latest social science research. Attendees will come away with strategies for...

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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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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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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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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...

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Recovery Courts: An Overview for Defenders

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

This webinar focuses on the defense attorney’s role in recovery courts in North Carolina, including drug treatment, veterans, and DWI courts. Defenders will learn about relevant authorities and resources, how these courts...

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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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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...