Registration: Full Conference Value: $1,030 Discounted Registration Fee: $400
Conference Capacity: 100 (less than 30 seats left!)
Note: Registration fee is non-refundable Registration Close: November 14, 2025 Registration covers:
Attendance of conference
Conference training materials (valued at $120)
2-night stay at conference venue (valued at $430)
Parking at conference venue (valued at $30)
Conference meals: hot catering options (valued at $300)
12 Conference Contact Hours (valued at $150)
Target Audience: This conference aims to provide training, education and information that will enhance service provision for agencies, organizations, and individual practitioners working to support child behavioral health in NC.
Modality:
This conference will be held in-person. Each participant has the opportunity to attend two plenary sessions and 1 of 4 tracks being offered during the conference. The tracks being offered will provide sessions on different topics relevant to the conference track.
Children with Complex Needs
School Behavioral Health
Systems of Care
Infant and Early Childhood
Conference Description: NC’s child behavioral health is influenced by several factors that determine both the type and quality of services provided to NC children and families. These factors include the policies that govern NC service provision; the research that informs those policies and practices; and the sociocultural challenges that impact the daily lived experiences of NC families and communities. To recognize that NC currently has a larger need for child behavioral health services than our system has the capacity to provide means that careful attention must be paid to the well-being of not just the children themselves, but also the individuals tasked with meeting their behavioral health needs.The recent mental health crisis has heightened the need for quality treatment, prevention, and intervention services that support NC children and families struggling with mental health and substance use challenges. With such a strong emphasis and attention being placed on the needs of client populations, oftentimes the needs of the providers and the organizations providing those resources and supports are frequently overlooked. This conference will engage providers from behavioral health service organizations and agencies in the opportunity to participate in training aimed at improving their collective understanding of organizational resilience and well-being. Over the course of three days, participants will engage in learning activities, group discussions, and exercises focused on the social, emotional, and relational factors that negatively affect provider well-being. Participants will leave the conference with takeaways in the form of tools and skills that are practical and useful within their practice and organization.
Funding Summary: The Duke Endowment provides sponsorship funds for the conference. This funding supports attendee’s overnight hotel accommodations, parking, venue meeting space, audio visual needs, speaker fees, supplies, training materials, and administrative cost for planning and hosting this event. Funds collected through registration fees will support attendee catering needs, conference materials and branded products that will be provided to attendees.
Continuing Education:
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6642. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. The successfully completed series qualifies up to 12 contact hours.
UNC School of Social Work, Tate-Turner-Kuralt Building
325 Pittsboro St. Chapel Hill, NC 27599
For questions, please email us at bhs-support@unc.edu or call us at 919-843-6083
