Dale R. Landry is a consultant on Community and Restorative Justice and has worked on several national and state initiatives. This includes the Balanced and Restorative Justice (BARJ) Project, a national training and technical assistance effort supported by a grant from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), U.S. Department of Justice; Florida Gulf Coast University's Center for Public and Social Policy - Community Justice Initiative; Florida Department of Juvenile Justice and Florida Agriculture and Mechanical University's Department of Social Work - Disproportionate Minority Contact Initiative; and both The Community Trust Corporation's Targeted Community Action Planning and Neighborhood Accountability Board Training and Technical Assistance Initiatives.

He is also the CEO of Village Architects Inc., a consortium of multi-disciplinary professionals, that work with communities to overcome the challenges of community based crime. Dale's area of expertise is in developing community capacity and strategies to overcome crime through adoption and implementation of the broader community justice philosophy and practices.

Dale received his B.S. degree in Management from the University of Maryland-European Division, an A.S. degree in Law Enforcement Technology and is currently in the graduate Masters of Social Work Program at Florida Agriculture and Mechanical University. He has received specialized training in Restorative Justice, Domestic Violence Intervention, Juvenile Delinquency and Gang Violence and is certified as both a Florida Department of Law Enforcement Instructor and Restorative Justice Trainer and is a licensed private investigator. With over 21 years law enforcement investigations, training, management and operational experience he has served in numerous positions: Military Policeman, Investigator, Detachment Commander, Community-Policing and Domestic Violence Unit Supervisor, District/Regional/Senior Law Enforcement Operations Manager and Executive Staff Advisor, culminating as a course manager at the U.S. Army Military Police School.

After retiring from the U.S. Army, he gained additional experience as: Adjunct Instructor for a Florida criminal justice academy, Family Advocacy Consultant and Volunteer Instructor for a domestic violence shelter and mandatory batterer's training program, Regional Inspector for the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, Executive Director for a community-based juvenile intervention program servicing four separate communities and Project Coordinator for a community-based neighborhood justice program. Dale has served as a presenter and panelist at the: 1998 Department of Justice's OJJDP National Conference, Florida Attorney General's 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th Annual Prevent Crime in the Black Community Conference, and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and the National District Attorneys Association 27th National Conference on Juvenile Justice. Dale serves on both national and local community efforts in building community capacity to overcome crime related problems, on the Board of Directors for the Victim-Offender Mediation Association (VOMA) and serves as Chair, Program (Training and Services) Committee; Tallahassee Branch of the NAACP, as Chairman of the Criminal Justice Committee; and member of the Big Bend Victim Assistance Coalition. Dale has received the Tallahassee Chapter National Foundation of Black Public Administrators (NFBPA) 2002 Human/Social Service Public Service and the Big Bend National Association of Social Workers (NASW) 2003 Public Citizen of the Year Awards.

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