Secure Environments Global Special Interest Group

What?

GSIGs

Launching in July 2026 at the ICMDA World Congress on Jeju Island, South Korea, we are partnering with ICMDA to provide one of its Global Special Interest Groups (GSIGs). These are voluntary, member-driven communities, organised around specific themes or areas of professional interest. They provide a platform for members to share knowledge, collaborate on projects, and engage in activities related to their shared interests within the framework of ICMDA’s vision, mission and values.

SEGSIG

So we are doing what only we can do by providing ICMDA with a Secure Environments Global Special Interest Group (SEGSIG).

Why?

Aims

  • For ICMDA: promote to its members engagement with the vulnerable community of detainees held within the world's secure environments.

  • For us: deliver certain aspects of our strategic plans, most commonly items pegged to our research and training services.

  • Both organisations: share mutually-agreeable opportunities relating to the health and justice interface, secure environments, and wider topics - including but not limited to abuse, deliberate self-harm, homelessness, immigrants & asylum seekers, mental health conditions, sexual assault, substance misuse, torture and ill-treatment, and trauma in general - associated with the vulnerable communities that are detainees, ex-detainees and their dependents.

Goals

  • Call members and others to serve in secure environments.

  • Equip them for holistic clinical service in secure environments.

  • Provide them with fellowship and support.

Benefits 

  • Directly, ICMDA's members and IH's training clients. 

  • Indirectly, detainees within the world's secure environments, ex-detainees and their dependents.

  • Ultimately, wider global society.

When?

Quarterly online activities

  • Clinical and ethical subjects relevant to global holistic offender healthcare.

  • Peer encouragement and support in this challenging work.

  • Prayer for each other and detainees worldwide.

Offline projects

  • Adapting resources for global offender healthcare.

  • Collaborating to start and grow local offender healthcare initiatives, 'doing what only we can do'.

  • Raising awareness amongst our peers.

With?

Steering group

We are in the process of drawing up a steering group, which will meet online twice a year.  

  • Planning: the group will plan in sympathy with the time cycles and content of ICMDA's and IH's strategic plans.

  • Objectives: the group will set SMART objectives, incorporating strategies that include but are not limited to: 

    • adaptation: specialising existing resources;

    • collaboration: partnership between ICMDA and IH,  internally within the different regions of ICMDA, and externally with other sympathetic non-governmental organisations (NGOs) majoring on secure environments;

    • events: organising conferences, prayer meetings, webinars and workshops.

  • Membership:

    • You must be a member of a national movement affiliated to ICMDA and have a strong interest in secure environments.

    • We are particularly interested in recruiting new members who are from ICMDA regions not yet represented, from healthcare disciplines frequently deployed within secure environments, have experience of working in a secure environment, and who enhance our diversity.

Join!

If you’re interested in joining the SEGSIG, and maybe even being part of the steering group, please do get in touch.

…let the wise listen and add to their learning,
    and let the discerning get guidance…
Proverbs 1:5