California Safe Driver is a division of Cobert Safety Professionals, LLC
About Us
Other programs may teach the class, we facilitate the learning.
We believe that even small changes can have big results.
Evidence shows that impactful learning includes social, emotional, and academic integration. That’s why Cobert Safety Professionals LLC facilitates curriculums utilizing an interactive, cognitive behavior therapy based approach to learning.
How do we know what works? We find the best law enforcement experienced facilitators, teach them how to use cognitive behavioral therapy strategies, and create a highly interactive classroom community. Students become active learners, and facilitators check learning throughout the class. Our well trained and highly experienced facilitators are highly sensitive to the students’ learning process, and care deeply about their success. Additionally, at the conclusion of each course, we check students' knowledge and engage them in anonymous open ended course evaluations.
About our executive director
A former school teacher, Jerome has twenty years of combined service in municipal, county and federal law enforcement.
Jerome served as a school resource officer and senior law enforcement explorer advisor. He first became a National Safety Council Alive at 25 instructor in 2006 after learning about the program while attending a national conference. Jerome introduced Alive at 25 to the Sonoma County Police Chiefs Association, district attorney’s office and courts, who have since used the course as a court ordered program. In 2007, Jerome served as a volunteer on the National Safety Council’s Defensive Driving Courses International Advisory Board where he helped author the third edition of Alive at 25. In 2008 Jerome was awarded the Alive at 25 Instructor of the Year for Sonoma County. In 2010 he introduced Alive at 25 into the Contra Costa County Court System, and in 2011 the “ADoD”/Attitudinal Dynamics of Driving Program as well. Since then he has worked with courts, district attorneys’ offices, police and probation departments, to implement the course, serving thousands of teens and adults. Jerome has served as the president of two Bay Area non-profit organizations.
Jerome continues to work throughout California to promote educational sentencing options for courts and to help create safer communities through the use of cognitive behavioral therapy-based diversion programs to address risky driving behaviors, drug use, truancy and general misdemeanor crimes. The National Safety Council (NSC) recognized Cobert Safety Professionals LLC with:
● 2010 Honorable Mention Award for its Alive at 25 Program.
● 2012 Honorable Mention Award for both Alive at 25 and the Attitudinal Dynamics of Driving Course.
● 2016 The Powerful Performance NSC Driver Safety Award for 2015 for accomplishments with the Attitudinal Dynamics of Driving Course.
“Drive as if your life depends on it.”
Become an NSC Defensive Driving Course Safety Instructor
SUBMIT AN EMAIL OF INTEREST WITH YOUR RESUME AS AN ATTACHMENT TO info@cobertsafetyprofessionals.com
Become a Defensive Driving Course Instructor
All of our National Safety Council DDC instructors are law enforcement officers, current or retired. Teaching and traffic backgrounds, along with experience working with teens, are desired but not mandatory.