Cultural Competency in Corrections: Engaging with Diverse Inmate Populations
Build your capacity to work across cultures with empathy, self-awareness, and ethical clarity in correctional settings.
Upcoming Run: 13th Oct 2025
Upcoming Run: 13th Oct 2025
Cultural Competency in Corrections: Engaging with Diverse Inmate Populations
SPS-011-CCC
$0.00
Duration: 4.00 hours
Upcoming Run: 13th Oct 2025
Sign Up nowCourse Fees & ScheduleWhat is it about?
Have you ever wondered how your cultural lens affects your interactions with inmates?
Do you know what assumptions you bring into a room and how they shape connection, trust, or distance?
The assumptions you carry often without realising can build trust or create distance in an instant. This module helps you uncover those hidden filters, sharpen your cross-cultural communication, and engage with respect, empathy, and cultural awareness so that every interaction supports rehabilitation in meaningful ways.
What Is This Module About?
Cultural Competency in Corrections is a Hybrid learning module (4 hours in-person + 2 hours asynchronous e-learning) for volunteers seeking to deepen their understanding of culture, identity, and ethical engagement in diverse correctional settings.
You’ll explore how unconscious bias, cultural narratives, communication styles, and trauma histories intersect in the correctional environment through reflective exercises, case studies, roleplays, and self-assessment.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Recognise the role of culture in rehabilitation
Navigate unconscious bias with humility and clarity
Communicate effectively across cultural differences
Support inmates through trauma-informed, boundary-respecting practices
How This Course Makes a Difference
Cultural responsiveness doesn’t happen by accident it’s a skill.
Volunteers often mean well, but without awareness, bias and missteps can still occur. This course helps you move from intention to impact by building the mindset, sensitivity, and tools needed to engage across cultures with respect and clarity.
Understand Multiculturalism in Corrections
Explore how cultural identity shapes rehabilitation outcomes, inmate experiences, and volunteer impact.
Recognise Implicit Bias & Cultural Narratives
Identify your own filters and assumptions. Learn how they influence interactions and what you can do about it.
Strengthen Cross-Cultural Communication
Develop skills to avoid missteps, respond to misunderstandings, and listen deeply across cultural lines.
Practise Trauma-Informed Boundaries
Understand how culture, trauma, and ‘helping’ can intersect in problematic ways. Stay grounded in ethics and respect.
Build Your Cultural Awareness Plan
Leave with a tailored, actionable plan for growing your competency in real-world volunteering.
Who is it for?
Ready to Strengthen Your Cultural Awareness?
Whether you're working within prison walls, supporting reintegration, or journeying alongside families, cultural competency matters. This course helps you recognise and respond to cultural differences with respect, humility, and practical skill.
Spiritual Counsellors & In-Care Facilitators
Support offenders holistically by recognising how culture, trauma, and identity shape their spiritual and emotional journeys. Learn to hold space with sensitivity and reduce unintended bias.
Aftercare Befrienders & Community Volunteers
Build trust across cultural lines by understanding communication styles and expectations. Avoid saviourism and support with empathy, awareness, and healthy boundaries.
Volunteers Working with Families
Sharpen your understanding of family systems, cultural roles, and values to support reintegration respectfully whether in homes, community spaces, or institutions.
Community & Social Service Professionals
Enhance cross-cultural competency to collaborate effectively with diverse clients, offenders, and systems. Apply trauma-informed, person-centred practices in correctional and reintegration work.
Prison Care Counsellors & Officers
Deepen insight into how culture influences inmate behaviour and volunteer interactions. Learn to foster culturally safe programmes and inclusive correctional environments.
Volunteers in Helping Roles
Respond to dilemmas in youth engagement with respect, clarity and appropriate limits.
Why Learn with Us
Hands-On & Practical
We believe the best learning happens by doing. Our courses are highly experiential — packed with real-life case studies, role-plays, and interactive group work. You won’t just sit through slides; you’ll practise the skills that matter.
Learn from the Best
Our trainers are experienced practitioners, not just facilitators. They’ve walked the talk and brought wisdom from the field, not just the textbook. Learn from people who’ve been there — and are here to help you grow.
Fun, Safe & Engaging
Learning should feel energising. We foster a warm, inclusive environment where you're encouraged to ask, reflect, laugh, and learn — all while building supportive relationships with fellow participants.
Backed by Research
Every course is grounded in evidence-based practices from psychology, social work, education, and communication science. You get practical tools that work — not just trendy jargon.
Designed for Real Life
Our content is real-world-ready. Whether you're navigating tough conversations at home, supporting others in your role, or developing your own mindset, what you learn is instantly applicable.
Lifelong Learning Community
When you join us, you join a movement. All alumni get access to follow-up events, peer circles, and exclusive learning spaces. You stay connected, supported, and part of something bigger — long after the course ends.
Meet your trainers
Blended Concept
Human-Centred Learning Specialist
Blended Concept is a social learning studio dedicated to designing transformative education that bridges personal growth, social change, and professional development. We specialize in creating practical, human-centered learning experiences that empower individuals, uplift communities, and shift systems. At Blended Concept, we believe learning should not only inform, but transform.
- •School of Life - Where Theory Meets Real Change
How will the course run?
📌 Course Access Information
This is a 4-hours in-person and 2-hours self-directed e-learning course.
In-person training is conducted at:
Blended Concept Pte Ltd
Grantral Mall
601 MacPherson Road, #03-11
Singapore 368242
📞 For directions or support, please contact Althea at althea@blendedconcept.com.
| Date | Start Time | End Time | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-13 | 09:00 | 13:00 | Face-to-Face |
Course Fees
| Course Structure | Fee (Net Fee after training grant subsidy) |
|---|---|
| Free (Sponsored by Singapore Prison Service)This course is complimentary for volunteers and staff from partner organisations of the Singapore Prison Service. | Free |
