The Jordan Institute is the research, training and technical assistance arm of the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Addressing family issues across the lifespan, the Jordan Institute brings together experts—including families themselves—to develop and test policies and practices that strengthen families and engage communities.

Interdependent Living Curriculum videos now available online Click here to watch these instructional videos, produced by and featuring youth in foster care.

YOU are Invited!

Online registration is now open for the 2009 AAHMI Conference. Please click HERE to read the official invitation letter from Dian Dawson, Regional Operations Director with the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC. Also, Please have a look at the Video Invitation to the 2009 African American Healthy Marriage Initiative Conference “The Black Family in the 21st Century: Connecting Marriage Research to Practice” ! This year's exciting conference will be held in Chapel Hill, NC, June 16-18th.

"An Invitation to Choose", a video produced by the Recruitment & Retention program, is now available online . This "Realistic Job Preview" features 33 minutes of on-the-job interviews with child welfare workers talking openly about both the challenges and the rewards of their work. The interviews offer a realistic overview of what it’s like "out in the trenches" of child welfare, giving prospective child welfare employment candidates a chance to understand whether the long hours, the paperwork, and the challenges and rewards of child welfare work are right for them.