Jason Dale, MPA, M.Phil, ABD (PhD Candidate 2027) brings 25 years of real California field experience into every class. He spent his career in the toughest armed assignments, Sex Crimes, Domestic Violence, and the Anaheim PD TARGET Gang Unit. So the scenarios, case law, and tactics he teaches are grounded in reality, not theory.
Agencies choose Jason because his courses solve actual problems. Every training is built around liability reduction, officer safety, trauma management, decision-making, and clean documentation. Departments consistently report better performance, fewer complaints, and more confident staff after their sessions.
Jason is STC-certified and trusted statewide. He has trained officers in 15 counties across California, delivering content that meets STC and BSCC standards while staying practical, modern, and immediately usable.
His energy, clarity, and experience make the difference. Jason teaches the way officers learn best: direct, relatable, scenario-based, and grounded in what actually happens on the street, in the field, in homes, and in court.
If you want training that elevates performance, strengthens judgment, and protects staff and departments, Jason delivers it.
Choose in-person or online training that fits your schedule, ensuring accessible, practical education anytime, anywhere.
Learn from seasoned professionals who provide real-world insights, mentorship, and actionable strategies for immediate application.
Cert # 02090910 This course confronts how implicit bias, structural inequality, and decision-making shortcuts shape outcomes in community corrections. Officers analyze real cases, practice bias-interruption strategies, and leave with concrete tools to enhance fairness, consistency, and trust with clients, employees, and the broader community.
Cert # 04457755 Burnout Prevention: High-Risk Sex Offender, DV, and Gang Caseloads. The Weight of the Watch refers to understanding Cumulative Trauma in High-Risk Supervision is a probation and corrections wellness-and-performance course built for staff who carry the heaviest caseloads—high-risk sex offenders, domestic violence/IPV, and gang-involved clients. The course names the reality most agencies under-talk: these assignments are “containment” work where success often looks like nothing happening, yet the cognitive load, isolation, and constant vigilance quietly tax the officer over time.
Cert # 09015321 This course teaches officers how to lawfully, safely, and effectively search cell phones for evidence related to supervision. Participants review legal authority, policy constraints, documentation requirements, and a 10-Minute iPhone Triage checklist that prioritizes high-yield apps, hidden folders, financial platforms, and communication channels, integrating digital searches into supervision while minimizing liability.
Cert # 09623922 Officers learn how traffickers recruit, groom, and control victims and how those dynamics show up on caseloads. The course covers red flags, trauma-informed interviewing, safety planning, and supervision strategies that disrupt exploitation while protecting victims and holding offenders accountable.
This course sharpens officers' skills for conducting safe and legally defensible field and home compliance checks. Participants practice pre-planning, role assignment, approach tactics, search sequencing, and de-escalation skills designed to reduce the use of force, enhance officer safety, and improve evidentiary outcomes.
Caert # 01625589 From initial knock to final documentation, this course walks officers through the entire search process. Officers review controlling case law, policy requirements, tactical movement, team communication, and post-search documentation so that every search is safe, purposeful, and defensible.
Cert # 04936562 This course is designed for tired, frustrated staff who still want their work to matter. Officers examine sources of burnout, identify what they can and cannot control, and build realistic strategies to re-engage, set boundaries, and rebuild commitment to the mission and to themselves.
This course focuses on teen-specific forms of relationship abuse and family conflict. Officers learn how adolescent development, peer culture, social media, and family patterns drive juvenile DV, and they practice interventions that combine accountability with developmentally appropriate support.
Leadership is not about rank; it’s about influence. This course helps officers, supervisors, and aspiring leaders build credibility, communicate vision, and shape culture from wherever they sit in the organization, turning passive compliance into active engagement.
Cert # 05180290 This course demystifies today’s constantly shifting drug landscape. Officers learn the differences between opiates and opioids, the impact of fentanyl and xylazine (“tranq”), overdose recognition, harm-reduction strategies, and supervision approaches that reflect real-world drug trends on their caseloads as well as increased officer safety.
Officers practice structured, calm, and clear verbal interventions to set limits and address non-compliance before problems escalate. The course teaches language, tone, body positioning, and follow-through that preserve safety, respect, and authority without unnecessary force.
This course helps officers raise their “baseline” of physical, mental, and emotional functioning. Through practical tools, including sleep, stress management, setting boundaries, planning, and adopting small daily habits, participants build sustainable routines that support performance on duty and quality of life off duty.
Officers examine the risk factors, offense cycles, and treatment considerations unique to juvenile and adult sex offenders. The course emphasizes containment-model principles, collaboration with treatment providers, polygraph and digital monitoring issues, and victim-centered supervision strategies.
This course challenges siloed “my caseload, my unit” thinking and replaces it with collaborative problem-solving. Officers practice structured team problem-solving models and communication strategies that align daily work with the department's mission and community expectations.
Officers examine the risk factors, offense cycles, and treatment considerations unique to juvenile and adult sex offenders. The course emphasizes containment-model principles, collaboration with treatment providers, polygraph and digital monitoring issues, and victim-centered supervision strategies.
Officers learn how trauma shapes brain development, behavior, and compliance. Using a trauma-informed lens, participants practice adjusting expectations, responses, and interventions to reduce re-traumatization, support safety, and still maintain accountability.
This course turns the trauma-informed lens back toward staff. Officers examine the impact of chronic exposure to others’ trauma, learn tools for processing and peer support, and develop personal and organizational strategies to reduce burnout, cynicism, and turnover.
This course focuses on rebuilding trust and morale in units where staff feel disconnected, unheard, or overworked. Officers and supervisors explore the drivers of low morale and implement concrete strategies, including recognition, transparency, follow-through, and shared purpose, to change the climate from the inside out.
In public-safety organizations, you can’t control the “weather” (staffing, politics, overtime, crises). You can control the climate, the norms your people experience every day: accountability, trust, clarity, and psychological safety. Built on the principles of Extreme Ownership, this course helps leaders identify toxic culture patterns, replace blame with ownership, and establish communication habits that withstand stress. Participants work through facilitated discussions, case analyses, group exercises, and guided reflections to practice real-world skills, including ego-check communication resets, rewriting directive emails using SBAR with a psychologically safe tone, rebuilding “up-and-down the chain” feedback loops, and applying reflective listening and empathy across divisions. The course concludes with a practical culture-shift plan, including daily communication rituals, personal ownership pledges, and 90-day accountability commitments that managers can implement immediately with their teams.
Format: 8 hours (5 instructional blocks + breaks), classroom delivery.
STC Category: Professional Communication / Leadership Development.
Walking the Line: Applying Title 15 in Juvenile Facilities is a practical, correctional-officer-focused–focused course that turns California detention standards from “regulations on paper” into day-to-day decision tools staff can apply on the floor:
· Title 15 (California regulations on minimum standards for juvenile facility operations and youth rights)
· Title 24 (California building and safety standards for the physical plant of detention facilities)
· Article 6 (Programs and services required for youth in custody – education, programming, activities)
· Article 7 (Discipline rules – what staff can and cannot do when responding to youth behavior)
The course zeroes in on non-negotiable youth rights - clothing, hygiene, phone access, visits, education, medical/mental health access, and dignity and explains why using these as “consequences” (e.g., taking clothing, denying phone calls, humiliating sanctions, excessive room time, group punishment) is not just poor practice, but a direct Title 15 violation and a predictable liability trigger. Participants are guided through common floor practices under BSCC inspections, PREA standards, grand jury scrutiny, and depositions, and leave with clear tools to prevent violations before they occur, while still maintaining a firm, safe, and structured custody environment. Participants will leave with tools to: Interpret and enforce Title 15 / Title 24 standards in real-time decision-making. Distinguish legitimate safety measures from prohibited punitive deprivation. Build compliant behavior responses under Article 6 and Article 7 (no “off-the-books” punishments). Document restrictions and sanctions so they can be clearly justified by policy, regulation, and common sense.
Outcome: reduced grievances, fewer BSCC findings, lower lawsuit exposure, and stronger protection for youth, staff, and the department.
Addiction and the Relapse–Rearrest Cycle: Dopamine, Decisions, Supervision explains how addiction changes the brain and drives decision-making that can lead to relapse, violations, and rearrest. Participants review core neurobiology, dopamine and the reward pathway, the role of the prefrontal cortex in impulse control and judgment, and how the amygdala and stress systems amplify craving and “survival” thinking. The course connects these brain processes to real-world supervision and custody behavior, including triggers, high-risk situations, and the predictable relapse cycle (cue → craving → use → consequences → recommitment).This course equips probation and corrections professionals with a clearer understanding of how addiction impacts behavior under supervision and how informed responses can reduce relapse, violations, and rearrest while supporting accountability and change.
This training directly supports the department’s operational goals by improving officer decision-making, field safety, documentation accuracy, and trauma-responsive supervision. Jason Dale’s courses align with STC requirements and provide immediately applicable skills that reduce liability, strengthen staff confidence, and improve outcomes with high-risk and vulnerable populations. His instruction is grounded in 25 years of field experience and meets the modern demands of community corrections, ensuring our staff receive practical, relevant, and evidence-based training that enhances both performance and public safety.
Courses delivered by experienced law enforcement and probation professionals with 25+ years of high-risk supervision expertise.
Practical, research-backed methods ensure effective decision-making, safer supervision, and improved officer performance on the job.
Focus on ethical standards, community trust, and safety strategies to enhance accountability and reduce risk.
Training emphasizes real-world scenarios, practical tools, and actionable strategies that improve outcomes for officers and communities.
Cell phone search
The real-life experience and officer-focused delivery made the training credible and effective.
Wellness course
Because he did the same job, he gets it. His honesty and vulnerability is refreshing. He made me feel comfortable about not being comfortable.
Trauma course
The instructor has his own stories about his struggles in the career, about his family, kids, and job. The delivery felt like a veteran officer coaching other officers, and it clicked.
Family Domestic Violence
He teaches in a way that respects the job and the realities we face.
Leadership
Practical and extremely relevant. He gives steps we can apply in the field.
Gangs Course
Clear instruction with real case based examples that actually match what we see in the field.
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