Nurturing Staff through Organisational Culture and Promoting Resilience to Support Offenders

ICPA2024 Presentation by Dhevani Ramachandran and Rashida Mohamed Zain (ICPA2024-PID194)

Authors

Ms Dhevani Ramachandran

Assistant Director, Organisational Planning and Development, Singapore Prison Service

Ms Dhevani is the Assistant Director of the Organisational Planning and Development branch in the Strategic Planning Division. She manages the development and implementation of Organisational Development initiatives such as culture, engagement and transformation to support SPS's strategic direction. Her team leads innovation initiatives and oversees ground sensing efforts to identify improvement opportunities for the betterment of staff and organisation. Prior to this, Dhevani was also involved in the evaluation of prison regimes and development of psychological correctional programmes for penal offenders and drug abusers.

Rashida Mohamed Zain

Senior Assistant Director, SPS

Ms Rashida is a Lead Psychologist in the Operational Psychology Branch of the Psychological and Correctional Rehabilitation Division. She oversees the mental wellbeing and crisis management for staff in the Singapore Prison Service. Trained in Clinical Psychology, she conducts clinical assessments and interventions for inmates, and therapy for SPS staff who require counselling support. Rashida is also a teaching associate at the Singapore University of Social Sciences where she teaches Forensic Psychology to undergraduate students.

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