At White Fields, each boy is viewed as a unique individual who responds to life circumstances in his own distinct manner.  For this reason, White Fields uses the Therapeutic Crisis Intervention system as its behavioral management component.  TCI was developed by Cornell University in the early 1980s.  This crisis intervention system enables White Fields to learn methods of preventing crises, removing potential critical situations, and restoring the child, staff and program to a higher level of function.   It emphasizes teaching our young residents adaptive coping skills to weather crises in a proactive manner.