The Journey Home: Making Aftercare Work
Understand the real-world needs of ex-offenders, and learn how to walk beside them with empathy, clarity, and practical support.
Upcoming Run: 28th May 2026
Upcoming Run: 28th May 2026
The Journey Home: Making Aftercare Work
SPS-004-MAW
$0.00
Duration: 4.00 hours
Upcoming Run: 28th May 2026
Sign Up nowCourse Fees & ScheduleWhat is it about?
What happens after the gates open and someone walks free?
How do we support individuals carrying stigma, broken ties, or no safety net?
As a volunteer or helper, how do you make your support really count in those first fragile steps?
Aftercare isn’t just a phase, it’s a make-or-break window in someone’s reintegration journey.
This webinar offers real-world insight, practical frameworks, and grounded guidance to help you become a steady, supportive presence during life after incarceration.
What Is This Module About?
Making Aftercare Work is a 2-hour webinar designed to help volunteers, community partners, and helping professionals better understand the post-release landscape and their role in it.
From navigating emotional trauma to systemic barriers and fractured relationships, this session explores the multi-layered challenges faced by ex-offenders and equips you with the empathy, skills, and resources to support them.
You'll learn how to:
Understand psychological and social needs post-release
Engage with cultural and emotional sensitivity
Build trust through person-centred support
Connect individuals to aftercare pathways and resources
Hold space without judgement while knowing your limits
Whether you're new to aftercare or looking to deepen your impact, this webinar offers a compassionate and practical lens on making real change possible.
How This Course Makes A Difference?
Aftercare is where reintegration truly begins.
This webinar brings the human journey back to the centre. You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of what people face after prison and how you can be a part of the solution with integrity and care.
Understand Life After Release
Get insight into the emotional, social, and structural challenges ex-offenders face from stigma to isolation.
Build Trust with Cultural Sensitivity
Learn how to approach individuals with respect for their lived experience, identity, and personal pace.
Support Without Judgement
Develop a non-patronising, person-centred lens rooted in empathy, not pity or control.
Navigate Boundaries and Roles Clearly
Discover how to stay supportive and sustainable in your volunteer role, avoiding burnout or overstepping.
Know Where to Link and Refer
Identify meaningful aftercare pathways and support networks so you’re never helping alone.
Strengthen Reintegration Outcomes
Understand the small actions that make a big difference in someone’s journey home and how to do them well.
Who is it for?
Ready to Support the Journey Home with Compassion and Clarity?
Whether you’re supporting someone after release or working in systems that shape reintegration, this webinar helps you understand the emotional, social, and structural realities of aftercare. You’ll gain practical tools, self-awareness, and connection to community pathways that make your support more impactful.
Volunteers Supporting Reintegration
If you're journeying with individuals post-release, this webinar helps you understand their lived realities and offer support that’s grounded, ethical, and effective.
Community-Based Service Providers
Whether you’re offering outreach, transitional housing, or family support, this session sharpens your understanding of aftercare dynamics and helps you build trust more effectively.
Reintegration & Aftercare Practitioners
Professionals in casework, transitional support, or post-release planning will gain new insights into culturally sensitive, person-centred care.
Faith-Based Volunteers and Peer Mentors
If you provide hope and support through personal connection, this webinar helps you deepen your impact while honouring boundaries and readiness.
Correctional and System Partners
Whether you work inside the system or collaborate from the outside, this session offers a grounded look at what makes reintegration work — and where volunteers fit into the bigger picture.
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
Gopal Mahey
Senior Counsellor | Reintegration Advocate | Volunteer
Gopal Mahey is a counsellor with over 10 years’ experience supporting individuals in correctional work, reintegration, and recovery. A Clinical Member of SAC, he blends professional expertise with lived experience to bring deep empathy and authenticity to his work. Known for his grounded, honest style, Gopal creates safe, reflective spaces that support real growth across counselling, facilitation, and training.
- •Senior Counsellor
How will the course run?
📌 Course Access Information
This is a 2-hour webinar.
The session will be conducted via Zoom, and access details will be emailed to you upon confirmation of your registration.
📞 For assistance or enquiries, please contact Ally at allynna@blendedconcept.com.
| Date | Start Time | End Time | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-23 | 10:00 | 12:00 | Online |
| Date | Start Time | End Time | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-28 | 10:00 | 12:00 | Online |
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 organizations of the Singapore Prison Service. | Free |