The UNC-CH, School of Social Work AHEC Training Partnership is a collaborative effort with the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers Program (NCAHEC) to meet the educational and career needs of the state’s mental health professionals. This program has been in existence for more than two decades and has provided continuing education and training activities for social work, mental health, substance abuse, heath and other human service personnel; technical assistance and opportunities for student field placements across the State of North Carolina.

Continuing education events offered via the School of Social Work AHEC Training Partnership include half-day and full-day workshops, faculty presentation at state-wide conferences as well as various training curriculum requested by the nine regional AHECs. Topics for these events include ongoing offerings from the School’s Jordan Institute for Families training faculty as well as other faculty members and field instructors associated with the School of Social Work. A list of workshops offered through this program are listed on the side panel of this website and cover the gamut of mental health, substance abuse and developmental disabilities topics.

In fiscal year 2007-08, the School’s faculty, adjunct faculty, field instructors and Ph.D. students demonstrated it’s commitment to meeting the educational demands of mental health and substance abuse professionals across North Carolina and to the NCAHECs by providing 557 hours of continuing education programs to more than 3,000 participants last year.

For more information about AHEC activities with the School of Social Work contact: Sherry Mergner, MSW, LCSW, AHEC Liaison at (919) 962-6463 smergner@email.unc.edu

The workshop information on this website is intended primarily for use by the NCAHEC regional Mental Health Directors in scheduling training programs with UNC-CH School of Social Work faculty and consultants. For information about the North Carolina AHEC Program and for a complete listing of mental health continuing education programs offered by the regional centers of the NCAHEC program, please visit their website at http://www.ncahec.net.